{"id":167923,"date":"2012-02-28T11:36:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T17:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=167923"},"modified":"2012-02-29T11:18:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T17:18:50","slug":"man-to-go-free-in-wifes-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=167923","title":{"rendered":"Man Accused in Wife&#8217;s Death Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=168000\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-168000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/02\/Kelly-Gage-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Kelly Gage\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-168000\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 A man law officers say is responsible for beating his wife so badly in November that she later died from her injuries is now a free man. Smith County authorities tell KETK that Kelly Gage was released from custody Tuesday. Gage\u2019s bond was dropped from $1 million to a $10,000 personal recognizance bond. Smith County DA Matt Bingham says there\u2019s just not enough evidence to indict the suspect for murder.<\/p>\n<p>Patty McHugh Gage was on life support after what appeared to be a drunken beating on Thanksgiving Day by her husband, Kelly Gage. Patty Gage later died, and her son says she\u2019d endured years of physical abuse. Bingham says the investigation is ongoing, but that based on what he\u2019s been told by experts, his office was unable to secure the evidence needed to indict the defendant within 90 days. Bingham cites the victim\u2019s blood alcohol content, which he says was over 4 1\/2 times the legally intoxicated limit. He says that raised doubts about whether Mrs. Gage was beaten to death or perhaps fell and hit her head. <\/p>\n<p>Noting Kelly Gage\u2019s lengthy criminal history, Bingham says he\u2019d love to keep him in custody. But he says the suspect\u2019s past criminal history is not admissible in the guilt\/innocence stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 A man law officers say is responsible for beating his wife so badly in November that she later died from her injuries is now a free man. Smith County authorities tell KETK that Kelly Gage was released from custody Tuesday. Gage\u2019s bond was dropped from $1 million to a $10,000 personal recognizance bond. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=167923\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man Accused in Wife&#8217;s Death Released<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 09:26:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167923"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168386,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167923\/revisions\/168386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}