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November 30, 2007

Strange But True!

Q. The police suspect there's been a murder but no body has turned up anywhere. Does this mean they have to give up on the case?

A. That's what 1949 London serial killer John George Haigh boasted to police after killing Mrs. Durand-Deacon, saying he had dissolved her remains in acid so the victim no longer existed, says E. J. Wagner in “The Science of Sherlock Holmes.” “You will find the sludge which remains on Leopold Road. But,” he smiled confidently, “you can't prove murder without a body.”


 
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