Officials talk about giving justice to a murder victim whose body wasn’t found

On Thanksgiving Day in 2003, Marion Fye had an argument with her boyfriend in their Northeast apartment. Her children told police they heard a gunshot and then a thump. She hasn’t been seen since.

Earlier this month, a D.C. Superior Court judge sentenced the boyfriend, Harold “Devine” Austin, to 42 years in prison for Fye’s murder. It was only the second time in District history that authorities had obtained a murder conviction without a body.