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A white Corvette had been identified as the vehicle that one of the victims had last been seen in. After his arrest, a search warrant was executed on a 1977 white Corvette that he had previously owned. Yates was arrested on April 18, 2000, for the murder of Jennifer Joseph. He refused, stating that it was too extreme of a request for a 'family man'. On September 19, 1998, Yates was asked to give a DNA sample to Spokane police after being stopped. On August 1, 1998, Yates picked up sex worker Christine Smith, who managed to escape after being shot, assaulted and robbed. 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, while his wife was sleeping in the room. 25-caliber handgun, and one attempted murder was linked to the same model of handgun.ДЄutopsies of two of the victims indicated that the killer was a marksman aiming for the heart. Eight of the murders were committed with a Raven. All of his victims died of gunshot wounds to the head. 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. The murders Yates committed between 19 in Spokane all involved sex workers who worked along Spokane's East Sprague Avenue.

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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. Yates left the Army in April 1996, apparently a year and a half short of being eligible for his full retirement benefits and pension. He earned several military awards and medals during his eighteen and a half year military career, including three Army Achievement Medals, three Army Commendation Medals, two Armed Forces Expeditionary Medals, and three Meritorious Service Medals. 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. In October 1977 Yates enlisted in the United States Army, in which he became certified to fly civilian transport airplanes and helicopters. 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. He graduated from Oak Harbor High School in 1970. Yates grew up in Oak Harbor, Washington in a middle-class family that attended a local Seventh-day Adventist church. He is currently serving life in prison at the Washington State Penitentiary. 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 State outlawed the death penalty in 2018. Yates also confessed to two murders committed in Walla Walla in 1975 and a 1988 murder committed in Skagit County. 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.

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(born May 27, 1952) is an American serial killer from Spokane, Washington.

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