Corpus Delicti: The True Crime Case of a Murder Without a Body

No body. No witness. No confession.

In May 1955, wealthy Pasadena socialite Evelyn Scott vanished without a trace from her Bel Air home. Her charming husband, L. Ewing Scott, claimed she simply walked away to buy tooth powder, yet he quietly liquidated her fortunes and fled.

In a landmark legal battle that captivated the nation, Los Angeles prosecutor J. Miller Leavy accomplished what many deemed impossible: securing a first-degree murder conviction based entirely on circumstantial evidence. Ewing Scott was sentenced to life in prison, steadfastly maintaining his innocence for three decades.

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