That's what did in John George Haigh, the Acid Bath Murderer. He thought that proving "corpus delicti" meant that you couldn't be convicted without a corpse, which is why he used acid to dispose of them.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'