My sovereign defeated a band of bandits. Zooming out to the cloth map, the bandits are shown as still there:

When I zoom in, the bandit leader goes through an animation of dying and falling to the ground, after which he looks like this:

Zooming back out to the cloth map shows the same scene as I pictured above. I can zoom in and out and the bandit goes through his dying and falling routine each time.
I don't know if the saved game displays the problem, but in case it does, here it is.