Today’s fun fact (suitable for use in schools)

Nationwide, only 402 “no-body homicide” cases have gone to trial since the early 1800s, said Thomas A. DiBiase, a former federal prosecutor and now a law enforcement consultant in Washington.

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3 Responses to “Today’s fun fact (suitable for use in schools)”

  1. Lawrence Person says:
    June 14, 2014 at 1:44 pm

    “This fact brought to you by the National Wood-Chipper Council!”

  2. jon spencer says:
    June 15, 2014 at 6:07 pm

    Of those 402, how many resulted in convictions?

  3. stainles says:
    June 15, 2014 at 6:15 pm

    No idea. The NYT did not give a figure.

    I suspect, though, if you analyzed it over time, the “no-body homicide” conviction is a lot more common today that it was in the early 1800s or 1900s.