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I believe you are referring to the case of Thomas Capano, who was a prominent Wilmington, DE attorney. He murdered his former girlfriend, Anne-Marie Fahey, and dumped her body (in a coller) off the Delaware coast into the Atlantic ocean. The body was never recovered (although the cooler eventually was found by fisherman), but he was nonetheless convicted of 1st degree murder and sentenced to death.

I believe he was convicted on the testimony of his own brother, who was on the boat and said that after the cooler floated, Capano shot it full of wholes to get it to sink, but it fell open and the brother saw a human foot going down into the water.

In an even stranger twist, they were able to match blood from Capano's house to Fahey's blood because she had donated blood a few days before her murder--they had to literally stop a ship heading to Europe with the plasma on board.

No time to link now but here

http://www.crimelibrary.com/classics5/capano/3.htm

is the link to the cooler murder guy.

Seeyabye