Bucks DA Hopes To File Murder Charges, Suspect Held On $9 Million Bail

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (CBS) -- Bucks County authorities are ready to pursue a murder case against a man in custody for kidnapping a woman who’s been missing for 3½ weeks. But it could be tough.

In this area, we’ve had our share of murder trials without benefit of body — those of Thomas Capano and Jay Smith, to name two — but it’s always a challenge, says Temple University law professor Edward Ohlbaum.

“What the Commonwealth has to prove in this case is not simply that there was a death, when you don’t have a body, but that the death was the result of murder,” Ohlbaum explains.

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