ESAD's Serial Killers/Psychology/Pathology Thread.

[Eat Shit And Die]

Robert Lee Yates A.K.A.: "Spokane serial killer"

Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Rape
Number of victims: 16 - 18 +
Date of murders: 1975 / 1988 / 1996 - 1998
Date of arrest: April 20, 2000
Date of birth: May 27, 1952
Victims profile: Women aged between 16 and 47 (prostitutes) and one man
Method of murder: Shooting
Location: Washington, USA
Status: Sentenced to death October 3, 2002

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 Ford 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 Raven .25-caliber handgun, and one attempted murder was linked to the same model of handgun. One particularly bizarre detail of Yates' murders involved the case of Melody Murfin, whose body was buried just outside of 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. On September 19, 1998, Yates was asked to give a DNA sample to Spokane police after being stopped; he refused, stating that it was too extreme of a request for a "family man".

Good docu in my opinion, not universally known, but you can bet your ass everyone in Washington knows who this guy is.
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