Oakland man guilty of murder - no body of victim [View all]
An Oakland man was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder for killing his ex-girlfriend in 2004 even though her body hasn't been found.
It is a case with similarities to that of Hans Reiser, who led police to his wife's body after he was convicted of murdering her in 2008.
Eric Mora, 55, showed no emotion when the verdict was read in Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland. He faces 15 years to life in prison when he is sentenced May 25 by Judge Vern Nakahara for killing Cynthia Alonzo.
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Alonzo was 48 when she failed to show up at a Thanksgiving dinner with her family in San Francisco in 2004. Her blood was found in his home on the 6200 block of Brookside Avenue in the Oakland hills, authorities said. Mora also had a deep cut to his hand, prosecutors said.
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Was the standard for conviction flimsy, given that investigators never found Alonzo's body for further evidence beyond the bloodstains and the suspect's hand wound?