Ep. 112 | The Torture and Murder of Kelly Anne Bates
On April 16th, 1996, 48-year-old James Patterson Smith reported to his local police station that his 17-year-old girlfriend had drowned. Firmly maintaining that this was an accident, he admitted that he was the one who drowned her and, while he claimed that he attempted to resuscitate her, it had been too late. When the police arrived at the house, they were led to the nude body of Kelly Anne Bates lying on the bedroom floor. The police knew it was too late to save Kelly Anne, but the scene they were met with at the home told a much different story than what James reported. It was immediately clear to law enforcement that Kelly Anne’s death had not been an accident, but a cold, calculated end to a long period of brutal abuse. This is the horrific story behind the heartless murder of Kelly Anne Bates.
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