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Old December 19th, 2007 #531
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Originally Posted by Slamin2 View Post
His wife said he'd gone to Norway and never came back. Investigators, however, determined that, after an argument over money, Ruth shot her husband twice in the head on Aug. 8, 1980, then, with help from her brother, dismembered the body and burned it in her back yard.

An intensive study of blood-spatter evidence, a bloodstained revolver and bits of tissue helped prosecutors gain a murder conviction. Neslund died at age 73 at the women's prison near Purdy.
How did they know her brother helped her?
He must have confessed, don't you think?
Plus they had physical evidence with blood stains and tissue samples.


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Mark Eby, convicted 1993 -- Investigators suspected sailor Eby, based at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, of killing his wife, Theresa, putting her body in a suitcase, and throwing it off the 182-foot-high Deception Pass Bridge.

Boats, helicopters, divers and watercraft joined the intensive search for her remains, but they were never found. Agents with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, however, were able to elicit a confession from the sailor.
They didn't need a body, he confessed.




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Steven Sherer, convicted June 2000 -- Jami Sherer, a 26-year-old secretary at Microsoft, had finally gathered the courage to tell her abusive husband she was leaving him. The date was Sept. 30, 1990. She was never seen again.

Her husband, Steven, had said he would kill her if she were unfaithful to him. Seven years after her disappearance, Redmond police reopened the case and spent thousands of hours investigating.
Wouldn't it be funny if she was hiding in Canada like the run away bride a few years ago.
He should have got a better lawyer.


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David Schubert, convicted 2002 -- Juliana Schubert, mother of two young sons, was last seen at her Arlington residence in June 1989. She was in the midst of a divorce from husband David, a former police officer and insurance broker who would be charged with her murder in October 2001.

It took two trials to gain a conviction -- the first ended in a hung jury. Prosecutors focused almost entirely on circumstantial evidence, convincing jurors that Schubert had threatened to kill his wife, and that he had told numerous lies to explain her disappearance.

Schubert was convicted of second-degree murder and was handed a 13 1/2-year prison sentence.
He told numerous lies about her disapearance?
That alone would sway a jury in favor of the prosecution with out a body.



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Kim Mason, convicted June 2003 -- Mason was already awaiting trial for almost choking Hartanto Santoso to death when Santoso suddenly vanished in February 2001, leaving behind a blood-spattered apartment on the Eastside and distraught relatives in Indonesia.

Mason, a professional kickboxer who'd befriended Santoso when the two worked at a Kirkland nursing home, claimed his victim made unwanted sexual advances toward him.

Without a body, prosecutors had to rely on bloodstain evidence, an ex-girlfriend's testimony about Mason confessing, and other accumulated details. After a two-month trial, the jury found the accused guilty of aggravated murder.

Mason, son of a retired assistant Seattle police chief, got life in prison. King County Deputy Prosecutor Steve O'Toole said Mason may have come "closer than we ever could have possibly wanted to imagine" to getting away with it.
Blood evidence from the victim and an ex-girl friend testifying that he confessed to the murder.
So you have physical evidence and a witness with nothing to gain or lose by telling the truth.


How do you think these trials would have turned out if the witnesses were caught lying, the evidence was faked and the defendants were tortured and forced to sign the confessions?


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Don;t you just hate it when you nose gets rubbed in the shit???
I don't know jew, I haven't had my nose rubbed in shit.
Why don't you tell me what it feels like?
You have been getting dragged though shit all over this thread.