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Robert Lee Yates Biography

Robert Lee Yates is one of the most popular and richest Criminal who was born on May 27, 1952 in Washington, United States. Spokane’s Skid Row was the victim of a serial killer who killed 13 prostitutes.

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Yates grew up in Oak Harbor, Washington in a middle-class family that attended a local Seventh-day Adventist church. He graduated from Oak Harbor High School in 1970. In 1975, he was hired by the Washington State Department of Corrections to work as a correction officer at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla.

The murders Yates committed between 1975 and 1998 in Spokane all involved sex workers who worked along Spokane’s East Sprague Avenue. The victims were initially solicited for sex work 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.

He had 5 children with his wife. She had no idea of her husband’s criminal activities.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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Yates left the Army in April 1996, apparently a year and a half short of being eligible for his full retirement benefits and pension. At this time the military was reducing its numbers so he got his full retirement despite being short of the customary 20 years served.

Robert Lee Yates Net Worth

Robert Lee Yates is one of the richest Criminal from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Robert Lee Yates's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Over 18 years, he served in the U.S. Military and was awarded 11 medals.

His routine was to hire a prostitute and have sex with them. Then he would shoot her and then dump her body in the countryside.

Robert Lee Yates Jr. (born May 27, 1952) is an American serial killer from Spokane, Washington. From 1975 to 1998, Yates is known to have murdered at least 13 women, all of whom were sex workers working on East Sprague Avenue, in Spokane. Yates also confessed to two murders committed in Walla Walla in 1975 and a 1988 murder committed in Skagit County.

On August 1, 1998, Yates picked up sex worker 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”.

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. In 2000 he was charged with 13 counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder in Spokane County Superior Court. As part of a plea bargain in which Yates confessed to the murders to avoid the death penalty, he was sentenced to 408 years in prison.

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In October 1977 Yates enlisted in the United States Army, in which he became certified to fly civilian transport airplanes and helicopters. Yates was stationed in various countries outside the continental United States, including Germany and later Somalia and Haiti during the United Nations peacekeeping missions of the 1990s. Yates also served three years in the Army National Guard as a Helicopter Pilot from April 1997 through April 2000. He earned several commendation and service medals during his military career, including the US Army Master Aviator Badge.

In 2001 Yates was charged in Pierce County with the murders of two additional women. The prosecution sought the death penalty for the deaths of Melinda L. Mercer in 1997 and Connie Ellis in 1998, which were thought to be linked to the killings in Spokane County. On September 19, 2002, Yates was convicted of those murders and subsequently sentenced to death by lethal injection on October 3, 2002.

Who is Robert Lee Yates Dating?

According to our records, Robert Lee Yates married to Linda Brewer , Shirley Nylander . As of December 1, 2023, Robert Lee Yates’s is not dating anyone.

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.

Facts & Trivia

Robert Ranked on the list of most popular Criminal. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Robert Lee Yates celebrates birthday on May 27 of every year.

In 2002, Yates was convicted of killing two women in Pierce County and sentenced to death but it was commuted to life without parole after Washington outlawed the death penalty in 2018. He is currently serving life in prison at the Washington State Penitentiary.

What happened to Robert Lee Yates?

In 2002, Yates was convicted of killing two women in Pierce County and sentenced to death, but it was commuted to life without parole after the Washington Supreme Court ruled capital punishment unconstitutional in 2018. He is currently serving life in prison at the Washington State Penitentiary.

Is Linda Yates still married to Robert Yates?

Linda said the romance was gone, but she felt guilty about splitting up the family. “They loved their dad and I just kind of suffered through it,” Linda Yates said. “I didn’t love him like a wife should. He killed that.”

What was Robert Lee Yates childhood like?

Robert Lee Yates threw fast pitches in high school, but didn’t have much of a curve. He dreamed in college of being a doctor, but those dreams fell apart about the same time as his first marriage. He worked his way up to an elite post flying helicopters in the Army, but left two years shy of full retirement.

What type of killer was Robert Yates?

How did Yates feel about slavery?

Robert Yates thought that all states should have an equal vote in the national legislature, and that the legislature should have one house. Yates also thought that only three fifths of slaves should be counted for determining the taxes paid by a state.

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