Murder Case

[starone]

Can anyone remember a murder case where the murderer was a man who worked on a pleasure ship as a waiter and somehow got rid of a girls body while at sea. Although there was no body he was still tried and convicted. Sorry this is so vague but I was trying to remember the case to tell someone and use it as an illustration to say that there doesn't have to be a body in a murder case but it was so many years ago that I cannot remember any details. My friend thinks I have imagined it and I am beginning to wonder myself! I hope someone can reassure me!

[wolf63]

Is this too old?

http://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/camb-james.htm

[starone]

Thanks so much wolf. This is the one! So I didn't imagine it - I'm glad about that. I said I thought he had pushed her through a porthole (we were on a ferry when we were discussing this) and my friend said you could not open the portholes. I think she was right about the one we were looking at in our cabin but he must have known how to open them. Anyway, thanks again!

[wolf63]

Here is more about it http://cruiselinehistory.com/murder-suspicious-deaths-and-disappearing-at-sea-aboard-liners-of-the-past-have-made-cruise-history-crimes-still-happen-today-many-more-than-the-past-the-romantic-decks-of-the-love-boat-can/

It is horrible when you know something and yet you can't locate the information in your brain. :-)

[sherrardk]

There was also this case local to us - http://www.freeradio.co.uk/news/uncategorized/herefordshire-undertaker-guilty-of-wifes-murder/?region=herefordshire

[Obiter]

The only reason he wasn't hanged was because at the time there was a bill going through Parliament with regard to suspending capital punishment and while this bill was being discussed all murderers were automatically reprieved.

[Ouzel]

There was also this one :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-18247944

[starone]

Thanks to all who answered. I didn't know there were so many cases. I am now well armed for my argument.

[Obiter]

That was the first case of its kind. Shortly before that the Acid Bath murderer pleaded that as there was no body he couldn't be guilty. Unfortunately enough for him, whilst he had dissolved his victim's body in acid her dentures had not quite been destroyed, which was suffiicient to send him to the gallows.