Murder Plot Comes Up Short

Here's a little hint, courtesy of the folks at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: If you're going to participate in a bizarre plot to find a homeless man so he can be murdered and his body used to fake the death of someone facing federal prosecution on immigration fraud charges, you might want to make sure the person who's death is being faked is roughly the same size as the victim. James Rand, 49, was found guilty by a federal jury of aiding and abetting in murdering William White, a 47-year-old homeless man who was suffocated in an effort to fake the death of Joseph Kalady. But ICE agents were tipped off to the scheme by the fact that White weighed about 175 pounds, while Kalady tipped the scales at fully 450 pounds.