The junior prosecutor left at lunch.
I step in to finish up the trial.
That’s when I discover a problem:
we can’t prove murder without a body.  

The Bureau wouldn’t sign a receipt for
John Doe because he was missing a toe.
It’s just a toe, but we can’t find it, so
technically, the “corpse” is body parts.

The jury will see it our way, I say
We have most of it, they can just round up.
But the defense holds an ace in the hole.
To show the whole you must produce the soul.  

This acquits the defendant every time —
murder not charged as a property crime.