Word: delicti
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...Corps Delicti...
...York mobsville, reported the New York Daily News last week, has solved this nagging problem of the corpus delicti. Solution: the hydraulic press, used in automobile junkyards to reduce dead jalopies to manageable cubes of crushed metal for shipment to steel mills to be melted down. Victims are taken for a ride in the good old-fashioned way. The car is then driven to a cooperating junkyard with the cadaver in its baggage compartment. A crane lifts the car into the steel-lined pit of the hydraulic press, where it takes just 90 seconds to reduce a 1962 Cadillac...
...devotee of fictional whodunits could plainly see that Scott did not murder his wife. Circumstantial evidence pointed to him, and in whodunits the suspect with the most evidence against him is never the murderer. Furthermore, there seemed to be no corpus delicti: in whodunits, corpus delicti means a corpse...
...corpus delicti means not the body of a victim but the "body of the offense," i.e., evidence that the crime in question has been committed. Even in murder cases that evidence can be circumstantial. In California over the years, at least five defendants had been convicted of murdering victims whose bodies were never found...
...case: that another doctor, Albert Snay, who had examined Abbie Borroto before Dr. Sander saw her that morning, could not feel her pulse; that she might already have been dead when Dr. Sander gave her the injections of air; that the prosecution could not produce a corpus delicti, i.e., proof of death by a criminal...