puakenikeni
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Exactly.They don't have a body but they do have parts of a body including, as I believe Kim put it, a part one cannot live without...the jawbone, which included at least one tooth. That alone should prove a death occured, but I'm not LE or a defense atty. I think this is a strong circumstantial case. I hope it is.
The legal definition of circumstantial evidence is simply that it does not come from an eyewitness or participant in the crime, and requires some reasoning to make the connection.
It is not by definition weak evidence or strong; it can be either, and many or most criminal cases depend on it,'because perpetrators generally seek to hide crimes from witnesses and don't volunteer the needed confession. Sometimes they do or a participant turns on another, of course. (This last bit is a paraphrase from the legal dictionary. I know you all know this already.)