Contents • • • • • • • Early life [ ] Yates grew up in in a middle-class family that attended a local church. He graduated from in 1970, and in 1975, he was hired by the Washington State Department of Corrections to work as a correction officer at the in Walla Walla. In October 1977 Yates enlisted in the, in which he became certified to fly civilian transport airplanes and helicopters. Yates was stationed in various countries outside the continental United States, including and later and Haiti during the United Nations peacekeeping missions of the 1990s. He earned several military awards and medals during his eighteen and a half year military career, including three, three, two, and three. Yates left the Army in April 1996, apparently a year and a half short of being eligible for his full retirement benefits and pension.

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At this time the military was reducing its numbers so he got his full retirement despite being short of the customary 20 years served. Murders [ ] The murders Yates committed between 1996 and 1998 in Spokane all involved prostitutes in Spokane's 'Skid Row' area on E. Sprague Avenue. The victims were initially solicited for prostitution by Yates, who would have sex with them (often in his 1979 van), sometimes do drugs with them, then kill them and dump their bodies in rural locations. All of his victims died of gunshot wounds to the head; eight of the murders were committed with a, and one was linked to the same model of handgun. Autopsies of two of the victims indicated that the killer was a marksman aiming for the heart.

Is there a serial killer on the loose in affluent Washington D.C. Fears rise after music teacher shot dead on her doorstep in broad daylight bringing number. Robert Lee Yates Jr. (born May 27, 1952) is an American serial killer from Spokane, Washington. From 1996 to 1998, Yates is known to have murdered at least 13 women.

One particularly bizarre detail of Yates' murders involved the case of Melody Murfin, whose body was buried just outside the bedroom window of Yates' family home. On August 1, 1998, Yates picked up prostitute Christine Smith, who managed to escape after being shot, assaulted and robbed. Kanye West 808 And Heartbreak Sharebeast there.

On September 19, 1998, Yates was asked to give a sample to Spokane police after being stopped; he refused, stating that it was too extreme of a request for a 'family man'. Convictions and appeals [ ] Yates was arrested on April 18, 2000, for the murder of Jennifer Joseph. After his arrest a search warrant was executed on a 1977 white Corvette that he had previously owned. A white Corvette had been identified as the vehicle that one of the victims had last been seen in. Coincidentally, Yates had been pulled over in this vehicle while the Task Force was searching for it, but the field interview report was misread as saying 'Camaro' not 'Corvette', thus the incident was not realized until after Yates had been arrested. After searching the Corvette police discovered blood that they linked to Jennifer Joseph and DNA from Yates that they then tied to 12 other victims.