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WILL MARK BRAIN.LYIST Sometimes people mistakenly say that the body of a murder victim provides the corpus delicti of the crime of murder. What actually constitutes the corpus delicti of murder?

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Corpus delicti literally means the body or substance of the crime. In law the term refers to proof establishing that a crime has occurred. Testimony that a ship's passenger pushed the deceased overboard can establish the corpus delicti of murder even if the body is never recovered.

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