No-Body Homicides

No-Body Homicides: The Evolution of Investigation and Prosecution examines how police and prosecutors have become more successful in obtaining convictions for homicide when the remains of the victim are unavailable as evidence.

Mark Stobbe teaches Sociology at Lakeland College in Lloydminster, Canada. He is the author of The "Mr. Big" Sting: The Cases, The Killers, The Controversial Confessions and Lessons from Remand.

- Introduction - Gone but Not Dead - Opening the Door to Prosecuting No-Body Homicides - "Till Death Do Us Part" - Missing Are the Children - Society's Expendables - Killing in Volume - Murder Incorporated and Its Imitators - Midlife Crisis, Murder, and Body Disposal - Deadly Synergies - Black Box Explanations and Prosecuting No-Body Homicides - Explaining Success - Bodily Secrets - "Only in Canada, eh?" - Prosecutorial Misfires - Results and Prospects for No-Body Homicide Prosecutions - Appendix - Index