Kristin Smart's disappearance was unsolved for decades. San Luis Obispo County investigators said a true crime podcast, "Your Own Backyard," led to new evidence.

A murder trial in California digs at the question of how much physical evidence is needed to prove a murder occurred despite many years and no body.

Anatomy of Murder is a weekly true crime podcast examining homicide cases and paths to justice for the victims.

Despite the evidentiary challenges, research shows that “no-body” murder cases that go to trial have high conviction rates, around 86%.

Richard Pierce was charged in 2018.

In this episode, I interview the brilliant and very educated Tad DiBiase who was a Federal Homicide Prosecutor for 12 years and specializes in forensic cases, d

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...

Indigenous women are posting TikTok videos highlighting unsolved murders and disappearances and asking people to come forward with tips

The question about 'no body' cases being convicted is being raised again as Brian Walshe, 47, entered a not guilty plea in Quincy District Court on Wednesday for the murder his missing wife.

It will be decades behind bars for a Maryland man convicted of killing his wife years ago whose body has never been recovered and is unlikely to be found.The Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s...

Manitoba’s premier says a search would cost millions of dollars while posing risks. The families of two Indigenous women who disappeared last year want action.

Van der Sloot is expected to be extradited from a Peruvian jail to the U.S. to face indictments related to Holloway's disappearance.

Judge Stacey Moreau scheduled a sentencing hearing for Aug. 22. Paul Reivens Jordan II faces up to 40 years in prison on the second-degree murder charge and up to five

No body, no crime.

A D.C. man was sentenced Friday to 35 years in prison and five years of supervised release for the murder of a woman whose body has never been found.

Patricia Kopta — who was nicknamed "The Sparrow" because of her slight build — had been declared legally dead by authorities.

The mother of Unique Harris handed out fliers with her daughter’s photo for years, hoping for a miracle after the 24-year-old disappeared from her D.C. home.

The jury recommended Johnson serve 25 years and six months in prison on the second-degree murder charge.

Richard G. Pierce was arrested in 2018 for the disappearance of his wife in September 1975, when he was about to retire from the Coast Guard.

As investigators spent years looking for a suspect, a key clue was buried in their files. Could they have solved the case years earlier?

Video shows police questioning Michelle Troconis, the ex-girlfriend of Fotis Dulos, about the disappearance of his wife Jennifer — does she know more than she's saying?

Police arrested a man in Minnesota in the 1983 killing of a White Cloud man whose body has not been found.

“The fact that a murderer may successfully dispose of the body of the victim does not entitle him to an acquittal.”

Prosecutors argued that Darnell Sterling killed Olga Ooro in her D.C. apartment in 2020, then cleaned the crime scene and disposed of her body.

Former prosecutor Tad DiBiase walks The Post through the complications of no-body murder trials.

Nearly 40 years after Kathie Durst vanished, Westchester prosecutors are presenting evidence to a grand jury that her millionaire husband killed her.

The decades-old murder case involving vanished college freshman Kristin Smart is complicated, to say the least -- especially since the 19-year-old's body has never been found.

Ana Walshe, 39, had not been seen since New Year's Day.

News that a man thought to have been killed had been found hiding in a wood is a reminder of the dangers of going to trial in murder cases without a body.

“If she was still here today and this would’ve happened to somebody else just say, she would be standing right besides me ready to fight just as hard as I am,” said Hodges sister, Crystal Songer.

This is the third time in a little over six years that Chesterfield prosecutors successfully prosecuted men for killing their girlfriends without bodies being found.

Parties of the Kristin Smart case met Monday to discuss witnesses for the preliminary hearing and motions to be discussed further beforehand.

MOUNTAIN CITY — Although no body had been found, Johnson County investigators charged a Butler man Friday with killing his roommate who went missing a week earlier.

On Sept. 20, 2019, Bernard Brown was indicted for murder after his ex-girlfriend was missing for five years on Maui.

A jury has found a Brown County man guilty on all four charges stemming from a 2013 case.

Nothing is as it seems: A homicide victim spotted alive, an informant with ulterior motives, and a woman who was hundreds of miles away from the murder turns ou

They are backing Black prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office who have called for implicit-bias training and a new focus on alternatives to incarceration, among other proposals.

Roy Snell has been convicted in the 1983 murder of a Michigan man whose body is still missing after 40 years. The man was found guilty of committing murder during another crime.

"I hope it brings some measure of peace to the victim's family."

The husband of a woman who’s been missing for more than four years pleaded guilty to her murder on Friday, although police have yet to find her body.

“Without that information from Google, we were toast,” a detective said.

Cassandra Gross remains missing more than four years after she disappeared. Despite that fact, homicide charges were filed late last month in Westmoreland...

By Heather Allen

Staff Report