The second week of Jerice Hunter’s murder trial begins Monday and prosecutors are trying to convince the jury that 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley is dead, even without a body.
Hunter is accused of killing Shockley through neglect, packing her body in a suitcase and throwing it in a dumpster in Tempe.
Police and volunteers sorted through a landfill for three months looking for Shockley’s body, but found nothing.