135. No-Body Homicides with Tad DiBiase
The Consult: Real FBI Profilers
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Tad DiBiase, a former federal prosecutor who specialized in “no-body” homicide cases joins the show. Tad walks through the reality behind these investigations and prosecutions, and why the idea that “no body means no case” simply isn’t true. We discuss what it takes to move forward without a body, from building circumstantial evidence to identifying behavioral patterns that demonstrate a homicide occurred.
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| 0:00.0 | In the consult, we discuss cases involving violence, sexual violence, abduction, and murder. |
| 0:09.0 | Sometimes the cases we discuss involve children. |
| 0:13.0 | Listener discretion is advised. Welcome to the consult. I'm Julia Cowley, retired FBI agent and profiler. And before we get started, if you'd like to support our show and get |
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| 0:44.4 | consult pod. We also have a Facebook fan page called Unsubs that was created by fans for |
| 0:50.3 | fans of the consult, where listeners can discuss our episodes and other true crime topics. |
| 0:57.5 | And lastly, if you're going to CrimeCon at the end of May, you can use our discount code |
| 1:03.9 | consult for 10% off your tickets. And my guest today will also be there, but I'm not going to tell you who that is quite yet, |
| 1:13.4 | but for those of you that have never been to Crime Gone, I highly recommend it. |
| 1:20.2 | Last year was the first year I went, and I found it very rewarding and very enjoyable. |
| 1:25.4 | So highly recommend if you ever get the chance to go. Today, I am joined by |
| 1:32.7 | someone who has spent his career working some of the most challenging cases in criminal |
| 1:38.2 | investigations, homicides where there is no body. Tad DeBis is a former federal prosecutor and one of the leading |
| 1:46.4 | authorities in what are often referred to as no body homicide cases, cases where a victim is |
| 1:53.1 | missing, but the evidence tells a very different story. He's the author of no body homicide cases, |
| 2:00.3 | a practical guide to investigating, prosecuting, |
| 2:03.7 | and winning cases when the victim is missing, which has become a go-to resource for investigators |
| 2:10.8 | and prosecutors navigating these very complex cases. |
| 2:15.8 | And his work focuses on how to build and successfully prosecute homicide cases |
| 2:20.8 | without the one piece of evidence that most people assume is essential, the victim's body. |
| 2:28.3 | And while we were introduced more recently by Ed Denzel, those of you know, I had Ed Denzel on the show, and he's the host of |
| 2:36.3 | Unfound, a show dedicated exclusively to disappearances, not just no body homicides, but all types of |
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