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How can a murder prosecution go forward without a body?

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Several possibilities: (#1-and best of all) a confession by the perpetrator. Failing that; (#2) The defendant had a good motive and good circumstantial evidence can be proven. It is a bit unusual, BUT NOT A RARITY, for a defendant to be convicted in the absence of the victim's actual remains.

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