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Old December 19th, 2007 #528
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Yes they do as a matter of fact.
No you do not.

http://www.courttv.com/trials/news/0...obody_ctv.html

Although the body of 45-year-old Jan Scharf was never found, prosecutors contend that her husband Glyn Scharf, 51, murdered her amid a bitter divorce

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/...vyside29x.html

A sampling of successful no-body prosecutions around the Puget Sound area:


Ruth Neslund, convicted 1985 -- A congenial woman famed for her homemade sausage, Lopez Island resident Ruth Neslund was the wife of Rolf Neslund, a retired ship pilot who went missing in 1980.

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.


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.

When defense attorneys in court argued that a woman couldn't fit in a suitcase, the prosecuting team brought a suitcase into the courtroom and had a petite woman curl up inside.

A military court jury handed Eby a life sentence for premeditated murder.


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.

With a dirty shovel found in Steven's mud-splattered truck, testimony about death threats, reports of domestic abuse and other circumstantial evidence, King County Senior Deputy Prosecutor Marilyn Brenneman convinced a jury the husband was the killer.

Sherer, now in prison serving a 60-year sentence, later attempted to hire a hit man to take out Brenneman. The inmate ratted on him.


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.


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.

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