Word: delicti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many whodunit addicts think that a suspect cannot be held for murder unless there is a corpus delicti-"often used erroneously to designate the physical body of the victim of a murder" (Webster). Actually, corpus delicti is the "substantial and fundamental facts necessary to the commission of a crime." Britain's last murder-without-body was in 1934, when a poultry breeder, Thomas Joseph Davidson, drowned his eight-year-old son. He was sent to prison for life...
...Corpus Delicti. In Sydney, Australia, police charged Andrew See with assault, declared they had found the evidence in his raincoat pocket: his father-in-law's left...
...Corpus Delicti. If there had indeed been a Prosecutor to try the enormous case of this murdered woman and the 100,000 other Indians, he might have opened with a point of wide application...
...ramshackle realism. The picture also had an unusually able scenarist, Funnyman Nunnally Johnson, who never hesitates to throw away a tense scene when he can think of a gag. Sample: finding a murdered body on his hands, Melody Jones asks what his partner means by the phrase corpus delicti. Answer: "It means if they got a corpus, you're delict...
Such bone-reading feats have endeared Professor Krogman to policemen throughout the Middle West. They often consult him in baffling cases, are invariably astonished at the precision with which he reconstructs the corpus delicti-and sometimes the crime. Professor Krogman, an ardent detective-story fan, loves this kind of work. In the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin this great authority on bone measurement recently described his uncannily accurate methods...