Ed Lewis Ates spent twenty years in a Texas prison because of two lies, one snatch of hearsay, and one piece of human feces on his shoe that, when all was said and done, was never actually proven to ...
HACKENSACK, NJ (CBS/AP) Edward Ates' attorneys tried to argue that their 65-year-old, 285 lb. client was too fat to kill his son-in law, Paul Duncsak, but the jury couldn't stomach that argument. Now ...
TRENTON, N.J. – A Florida man accused of killing his son-in-law in New Jersey is arguing that he was unable to commit the crime because he was too fat. An attorney for Edward Ates is making the case ...
The sun was not yet up Tuesday in New Orleans, and Kristin Ates, a slim 18-year-old with long, shiny brown hair, was decked out in Tulane swimming gear, sitting on the deck of the Reily Center ...
FORT WALTON BEACH — Jimmy Ates was granted $1.5 million bond Thursday, almost three weeks after his second conviction for first-degree murder was overturned. Okaloosa County Circuit Judge Michael ...
The “too fat to kill” defense didn't work for a Florida man convicted of murdering his son-in-law in 2006, so he appealed his conviction on the grounds that New Jersey's wiretapping law is ...