What Happened to Mamta Kafle Bhatt?

So you mentioned earlier that this case could prove to be more complicated because it's what's known as a no body case.

So according to a study, now this was done by the General Counsel for the United States Capitol Police, no body cases actually have a conviction rate of 86%.

This is due to the strength of the evidence associated with those cases.

Now, for comparison, the conviction rate of all murder cases is around 70%.

I mean, without a body, I would imagine other evidence would have to be extremely convincing to make it to trial.

Herman, you've covered another no body situation with us, and that was on Case by Case in the Larry Millete murder trial, and that was over the summer, and that's where he was found guilty of first-degree murder.

So can you break down what is so unique about these kinds of cases?

It's extremely challenging to, to prove criminal intent without a body present.

It, it's hard enough when you do have one, obviously.

You know, you look at those pres- you know, those statistics that you mentioned before.

But this makes investigators look very closely at all of the evidence.

It, it's, some of it's crucial to the case, some of it's just to rule things out, but every single piece of evidence is, is given, like, more weight than usual in a, in a sit- in a case like this.

Absolutely, and in a pretrial hearing, this was just last week, prosecutors discussed thousands of pages of digital records.

This is gonna be from Google, TikTok, and about 3,700 pages of data from Meta alone, which could include Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.

Now, they even read some of Naresh's alleged searches aloud, and they included things like, "How long does it take to marry after a spouse dies?" And, "What happens to debt after a spouse dies?" So these searches seem pretty damning.

For sure, and you talked a lot about the digital evidence and why it's so important to go through every corner and every piece of this.

Do you see the prosecution using them to build a case against Bhatt?

Oh, absolutely.

Think about it like, you know, the way I was trained and the way I, I go about, uh, just about every investigation.

It's the five Ws, the who, what, where, when, and why.

When you're missing the what, and in this case it would be the, the what is the cause of death, uh, you have to really bolster the why.

So motive and things like getting an inside look into the, what a person was thinking about while he was googling things and, and searching search terms and things like that, that's an amazing advantage that we have now.

You know, I, I didn't have them during my time as, as a police officer as much as it's so prevalent now.

You really get an inside look at the state of State of mind of a person, uh, you know, i- if everybody's on their phone, everybody's searching things.

Uh, y- you know, he's not searching, uh, what do you do when your wife leaves you and how do you get her back? He's searching how fast can I get married and what happens to my debt and things like that.