7-19. 1859, Missing Girl, Missing Body. Murder?

A missing girl. Suspicions of murder. the body never found. A prominent Rockingham County NC  farmer,  hanged for her murder in 1860.

A precedent-setting case in North Carolina law. It allowed the state to convict a person of murder without there being a corpus delicti  better known as the body of the victim

It was Dec. 1, 1859, when Peggy was last seen by her family; approximately a year later a  farmer hung for her death. Peggy's body was never found.

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