State v. Grissom

Three young women with similar, stable lifestyles disappeared from the same town around the same time; none was ever heard from again, and their bodies were never found. Each had discussed future plans with family and friends and showed no signs of depression, yet each apartment showed signs of a hasty departure, and large cash withdrawals were made from each woman's bank account within hours of her disappearance. Other evidence connected Richard Grissom (defendant) to the disappearances, and a jury convicted him of murder without any bodies ever being recovered; he appealed, challenging whether corpus delicti could be established at all.