This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels.

The absence of evidence is obviously the big thing here that they're going after with the defense.

How do juries typically, you know, interpret absence of evidence do they hear reasonable doubt

or do they hear a lawyer grasping at straws especially in a case like this how do you think this

is reading you know no body cases are tough man you know and it's like when he took the plea in terms of disposing in the body,

he, you know, obviously Tipton and Walsh had sat down there like, look, you know, this concept

that she might still be alive somewhere is not going to work, right? You know, because that's

always the thing with a no body case, you know, except with kids,

obviously with kids, like, how are they going to be able to, you know, dip out and go

live in a new life somewhere?

They don't have the means to do that.

But, you know, if you've got a situation where, you know, you've got a spouse that is like

disappeared and that they can't find the body, you know, they never used to try those cases

because they're hard, you know, because of that problem. You have so many problems. You don't

know how she was killed or he was killed. You know, you're missing huge amounts of evidence in terms of proving that

case up. And, you know, there always does exist that concept that maybe, just maybe, that

person's alive somewhere. You know, you can't tell me definitively that they're not, you know,

even though you have a lot of circumstantial evidence that something

nefarious happened, something untoward has taken place here, sir. You know, I mean, but I think

ultimately there's enough with the Google searches for them to understand that that's taken

that nobody issue, the fact that there could be this

concept where that person's still alive somewhere in the world, that's off the table, right?

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