NO BODY NEEDED IN FLORIDA.

No Body Needed in FL







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LAKE MARY, Fla. -- No
body, no crime used to be the theory in criminal court.But now Casey
Anthony's indicted in connection with the disappearance of her daughter
Caylee -- even though the Anthony family insists Caylee is alive.Can
anyone be convicted of murder without a dead body?

In the case
of Anton Meyers, prosecutors were able to seal the deal without a
body.Meyers was indicted a full six years after Kathy Engels, 14,
vanished.Meyers said he had seen Engels at a Lake Mary convenience
store in 1987, but that was it.

His attorney questioned how his
client could even be accused of stabbing Engels to death."If a person
does contest that someone is dead, can you even move forward absent a
body?" Meyer's attorney Ed Leinster asked.Meyers was not only
convicted, he was sentenced to death.State Attorney Norm Wolfinger made
the final grand jury call."You can successfully prosecute without a
body. Most people to this day don't think you can," Wolfinger said.

Meyers
had been in jail for something else when he started talking with other
inmates.Those inmates were key witnesses, along with scratches on
Meyers back, a shoeprint on his chest the day he was first
questioned."We felt the evidence was there. The question comes, 'Are
you going to convict?' We felt we could," Wolfinger said.

Shortly
after Meyers was set to death row, he said he was ready to deal. He
would help the state find Engels. He brought them to an still
undeveloped area on Lake Mary Boulevard and took them to the exact
spot.With the body finally found, Meyers left death row and is now in
prison for life.