I’m in Oklahoma and we’ve had three that I’ve memorized. Are you making a list?
Murder conviction upheld in Oklahoma “no body” case
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...homa-city-7-october-2007.55127/#post-12099721
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...eminole-20-april-2006-r-r-clark-guilty.40833/
Chris Ross, the district attorney of Pontotoc, Hughes and Seminole counties in Oklahoma, has gained three convictions in two separate no-body cases.
“What you generally see is everything they did in their life in a given day all stopped at the same day and time,” Ross said.
Establishing that a person stopped communicating with family members and that their cellphone and bank activity stopped at the same point in time is one method of proving a disruption.
Then, prosecutors look at what the supposed victim left behind. For Ross, the leaving behind of routine objects such as luggage, a toothbrush, a hairbrush and, for women, makeup and jewelry can point to death.
“The question isn’t that you couldn’t live without that because you could,” Ross said, “but if you were leaving voluntarily, why would you leave all that behind? And the common-sense answer is if you were leaving voluntarily, you wouldn’t.“
The last no-body case Ross tried was the murder of 6-year-old Logan Tucker by his mother, Katherine Rutan Pollard, in Woodward, Okla., on June 23, 2002.
“He is not capable of going out and living on his own, so that would be something you look at,” Ross said.
During Bradley’s probable cause hearing, David used a list of points to attempt to establish that Vannewkirk was likely dead.
Among those were Vannewkirk’s plans to have brunch with her mother the day after she disappeared, that Vannewkirk was enjoying life, that she hadn’t disappeared without explanation before, that she was a happy person and that police couldn’t find any evidence that she is alive.
“There’s probable cause to believe she’s not just missing, but that she’s dead today,” David told Judge Ray on May 15.
Murder convictions not unheard of even when there's no body
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...6-woodward-23-june-2002-k-rutan-guilty.36715/
https://www.nobodycases.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Nobodytablelatest-Nov-2020.pdf
Sierra was
convicted in the 1982 shooting death of a man in Oklahoma City after being charged in 2015 when new testing of blood evidence linked him to the crime.
https://kfor.com/news/local/oklahoma-court-upholds-murder-convictions-in-four-cases/
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