Robert Lee Yates

Military Person

1952 –

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Who is Robert Lee Yates?

Robert Lee Yates, Jr. is an American serial killer from Spokane, Washington. From 1996 to 1998, Yates is known to have murdered at least 13 women, all of whom were prostitutes working on Spokane's "Skid Row" on E. Sprague Avenue. Yates also confessed to two murders committed in Walla Walla in 1975 and a 1988 murder committed in Skagit County. In 2002, Yates was convicted of killing two women in Pierce County. He currently is on death row at the Washington State Penitentiary.

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Born
May 27, 1952
Spokane
Also known as
  • Spokane Serial Killer
Religion
  • Seventh-day Adventist Church
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Oak Harbor High School
    ( - 1970)
Employment
  • Washington State Penitentiary
    (1975 - 1977)
Lived in
  • Oak Harbor

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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