No-Body Homicide Cases

A Practical Guide to Investigating, Prosecuting, and Winning Cases When the Victim Is Missing
2. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-61804-3
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 394 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 739 g

A practical guide for police, death investigators, and prosecutors, No-Body Homicide Cases: A Practical Guide to Investigating, Prosecuting, and Winning Cases When the Victim is Missing, Second Edition takes an expansive look at both the history of no-body murder cases and the best methods to investigate, solve, and bring them to court.

How do you prove someone guilty of murder when the best and primary piece of evidence—the victim’s body—is missing? Exclusively dedicated to the investigation and prosecution of no-body homicide cases, this fully updated Second Edition provides the author’s insight gained from investigating, consulting on, and trying scores of no-body cases throughout the United States. Taking readers step-by-step from the first days of a homicide investigation through the trial, the book explores the history of confessions and discloses the investigative techniques police must use to catch these cunning killers. Chapters review methods criminals have used to dispose of bodies, delving into the psychological profile of the type of defendant who murders someone, then hides the body. Since the last edition published, the number of no-body murder cases investigated has skyrocketed, with more than 50 percent of all no-body murder cases tried and prosecuted have occurred since the year 2000.

New to this edition is a chapter on a full, singular high-profile case from start to finish, to illustrate the entire no-body investigative and adjudication process. A sample arrest warrant for a no-body murder case is provided in addition to Chapter 12 updating the prior edition’s nearly 400 case summaries provided to the current figure, as of this publication, of 576 no-body murder trials in U.S. history. No-Body Homicide Cases, Second Edition continues to serve as an essential resource and the "how-to" manual for investigating, prosecuting, and winning no-body murder cases.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dibiase, Thomas A. (Tad)

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Rechtsmedizin, Forensik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Background and Overview 3. The Early Investigative Phase 4. Investigation: Later Phase 5. Cold Case 6. Trial 7. No-Body Murder Case Statistics 8. Personality of a Murderer 9. Future 10. Common Features of a No-Body Murder Case 11. United States v. Harold Austin, A Case Study 12. Summary of All 576 No-Body Murder Trials in the United States Since the 1800s  App A. No-Body Homicide Investigative Checklist  App B. Key Word Index App C. State by State Cases App. D Model Arrest Warrant for No-Body Murder Case

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas A. (Tad) DiBiase received a B.A. in politics from Wake Forest University in 1987 and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1991. He is the nation’s leading expert on no-body homicide cases and has a website that tracks and discusses these cases at www.nobodymurdercases.com. He consults with police and prosecutors throughout the country on no-body murder cases and has formally consulted on more than two dozen no-body murder cases. He has appeared on television numerous times and has been quoted widely in newspapers throughout the country.