Tag: conviction without a body

  • Casey Anthony can be convicted without a body

    Trying Caylee’s mom harder without a body:

    I know I said I wouldn’t post about Casey Anthony anymore but this is an issue that drives me insane.

    I can’t stand it when everyone and their grandmother claims that you can’t convict without a body. While risky it’s not impossible and more common than you think.

    Off the top of my head, I can name two cases where people were convicted without a body. The first is Tom Capano. The body of Ann Marie Fahey was never found. The second one that comes to recent memory was that of Hans Reiser. All of his supporters claimed that you can’t convict without the body of his wife Nina. After he was convicted he led police to his wife’s body.

    There’s another case that the names of those involved escape me at this time but basically a guy from New Orleans went around bragging about killing a girl who no one even knew existed. Prosecutors in N.O. were able to convict him as well.

    I think the Caylee Anthony disappearance fits very well next to those other cases. The only thing that will free Casey Anthony is if Caylee shows up alive and well. I think the odds of that happening are slim and none and slim just left.

  • Hans Reiser tries to make deal

    Hans Reiser Offers To Lead Cops to Nina’s Body:

    I love how a metric assload of people said that there was no way they could convict Hans Reiser because there was no body. I love how they said how that he didn’t do it. I love how they said that he was convicted solely because he’s a geek.

    Now they’re all silent because their hero is now trying to make a deal to get his sentence reduced if he shows them his wife’s body.