Murder without a corpse

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Murder without a corpse refers to a circumstantial trial that leads to the accused being charged or convicted , although the victim was not found as evidence .

A well-known example from Germany is the Otto-Erich Simon case . Prominent examples from the Anglo-American legal community are:

  • Thomas and Jackie Hawks disappeared from their sailing ship in 2004. The US actor Skylar Deleon and his wife were sentenced to death by an Orange County court.
  • A scream in the dark tells of a mother's condemnation for the disappearance of her daughter in Australia, which was only accused of a dingo after years .
  • John George Haigh dissolved his victims in sulfuric acid and was executed in 1949.
  • British backpacker Peter Falconio disappeared in July 2001; Bradley John Murdoch was convicted.
  • After the disappearance of his wife in 2008, Hans Reiser was initially charged with first degree murder and then pleaded guilty in order to receive a lighter sentence for second degree murder .
  • Five-year-old April Sue-Lyn Jones disappeared in Wales on October 1, 2012. Mark Bridger was sentenced to life imprisonment for this.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Murder without a corpse: BGH confirms judgment against husband Stuttgarter Nachrichten , January 19, 2017.
  2. ↑ Kerstin Gehrke: Murder without a corpse: Roommate convicted of murder Tagesspiegel , May 23, 2019.
  3. ↑ Florian Tempel: No corpse, no crime scene and still lifelong Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 2, 2019.
  4. ↑ Gabriele Scherndl: Conviction and acquittal in the trial of a murder without a corpse, Der Standard , October 24, 2019.
  5. ↑ Skylar Deleon is said to have drowned the couple. "Power Rangers" star sentenced to death t-online.de, April 14, 2009.
  6. ↑ Jochen Thielmann: "A scream in the dark." An Australian Witch Hunt Legal Tribune Online , July 28, 2012.
  7. ↑ Barbara Barkhausen: Murder in the Outback: After 16 years, Joanne Lees is looking for the body of her friend Die Welt , February 14, 2017.
  8. ↑ Andreas Wilkens: Hans Reiser leads the police to the corpse of his wife heise.online, July 8, 2008.
  9. ↑ April Jones case: Defendant convicted of murder, Der Spiegel , May 30, 2013.