EX CO kept pleading "not guilty".. bargains with gravesites
dnarshMAX
in Prison. Those is that oft quoted but minority "rapists, murderers and child
molesters" that are usually highlighted in the Media and by the hype put out by
the Prison-Industrial-Complex paased on here even by some COs. They may just be
mouthing this as automatic responses, but in truth they know the majority of
those inside, were/are like I was, just stupid, petty thieves trying to survive
on the mean streets without a clue as to how to cope and not believing in the
quid pro quo system of life values. Finally giving in to taking the advise of
get it over with, do your time and get a fresh start..i.e. spill your guts so
we can clean up these books <grin> abd off into the line leading from jail to
cellhouses in Prisons and onto the taxpayer's invoicing count sheets.
Now this guy is special, in more ways than one. His first killings were that
young couple in Walla Walla WA. in 1975, while he was a CO (Prison guard).
Guess the fact they were under age and screwing, blew his mind.
Everyone was shocked at this legit. church goer who even buried one girl's body
under his bedroom window in the lawn.
MAX
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Serial killer's wife suspected Yates was having affairs
Tuesday, July 24, 2001
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPOKANE -- The wife of confessed serial killer Robert L. Yates Jr. knew
something was wrong when he started going through the family's bills.
For years, the bills had been Linda Yates' job. But in late 1999, she found her
husband tossing credit card statements into the fireplace of their Spokane
home.
That's when she noticed the charges for Al's Spa Tub Motel, a place she had
never been and where customers can pay by the hour.
"Did you have someone else there?" Linda Yates asked her husband, according to
Tuesday's editions of The Spokesman-Review.
Linda Yates' comments were published in the 24th installment of a 31-part
series the Spokane newspaper is publishing on the hunt for the serial killer.
Yates, father of five, denied to his wife that he had taken women to the motel.
He contended he used the motel's hot tub to soothe his aching muscles after
12-hour shifts at a nearby Kaiser Aluminum plant.
But the credit card bills confirmed for Linda Yates an old suspicion that her
husband was having affairs. The bills showed he'd been going to the motel for
at least a year.
"I was raised with old-fashioned values," Linda Yates recalled. "When you
marry, you marry. Apparently he didn't take it seriously like I did."
The Yates family settled in Spokane in 1996 after two decades of traveling
around the world for Robert's job as an Army helicopter pilot. Shortly after,
women began disappearing from the streets of Spokane.
Linda Yates had hoped the return to their home state would help the troubled
marriage, but it didn't.
Daughter Sonja Yates found her father's address book one day and called the
numbers of some women whose names she did not recognize.
"Do you know Robert Lee Yates Jr.?" she would ask the women. Each denied
knowing him.
Robert Yates explained that the women were selling him car parts for his many
vehicles.
Around that time, Linda Yates noticed the family was running out of money. She
complained to her husband about his frequent withdrawals from ATMs. For the
first time in their 26-year marriage, Robert Yates began badgering his wife to
get a job.
Robert Yates also began having trouble with impotence and talked about using
Viagra.
"It's OK," she told him. "You're probably tired and I'm tired."
Linda Yates found magazines featuring orgies and lists of people interested in
group sex. Robert asked if she had ever fantasized about making out with
another woman.
"I don't believe in that stuff," Linda Yates replied.
Linda Yates also noticed that her husband's military colleagues always seem
surprised that he had a wife when they went to parties together. At the
parties, Yates would drink heavily, moon other women and tell them his name was
James Bond, 007.
Much earlier in their marriage, she left her husband for a month when she
discovered he had drilled a hole in an attic wall so he could watch a couple
having sex in an adjoining apartment.
Linda left her husband again in the mid-1980s, moving the children back to her
hometown of Walla Walla while Yates remained on duty in Alabama.
She loved the separation, but the couple reunited in June 1988 after being
separated for a year and a half.
"The girls were pleading to be with their dad," Linda said. "They didn't want
to be poor and not have anything anymore."
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."
Yates, 49, was arrested as he drove to work in April 2000.
Under a deal to avoid the death penalty, he pleaded guilty in October to 13
murders and one attempted murder. Ten of the victims were women in the Spokane
area, killed from 1996-98. In each of those cases, the victims were involved
with drugs or prostitution or both.
Yates also confessed to killing a man and a woman in the Walla Walla area in
1975, and to the 1988 murder of a woman whose body was found in Skagit County.
He was sentenced to 408 years in prison.
Now he faces murder charges in the deaths of two women in Pierce County and
could face the death penalty at a trial scheduled to begin next April 29.
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He keeps avoiding the death penalty by revealing gravesites for a plea
bargains.
MAX
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