2nd Edition

No-Body Homicide Cases A Practical Guide to Investigating, Prosecuting, and Winning Cases When the Victim Is Missing

By Thomas A.(Tad) DiBiase Copyright 2024
394 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

394 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

394 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

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... Read more

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

Biography

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.