Kelly Anne was 17 when she was brutally tortured over the span of 4 weeks and then murdered on the 16th April 1996. On the 16th of April, a man by the name James Patterson Smith walked into a police station stating that he accidentally killed his girl friend after an argument they had which caused her to drown in their bathtub.

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Source :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kelly_Anne_Bates

https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/smith-james-patterson.htm

https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Ann_Bates

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3041527/Mother-reveals-heartbreak-nearly-20-years-teenage-daughter-tortured-death-violent-lover.html

https://allthatsinteresting.com/kelly-anne-bates

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00912174211050504