Five Four Two And The Blue

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. Felonfile.com https://anchor.fm/felonfile/episodes/7-19--1859--Missing-Girl--Missing-Body--Murder-e1e13s7 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/felonfile/message