State v. Lerch

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• rejecting argument that higher standard applies when circumstantial evidence relied upon to prove corpus delicti
• defendant, a prison escapee, confessed that he had strangled victim, a seven-year-old boy and put his body in a dumpster; witness testified he had smelled the odor of decomposing human flesh coming from the dumpster; hair similar to victim’s was found in defendant’s home

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).