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Crime History: Spokane’s serial killer arrested

By Scott McCabe
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Crime History: Spokane’s serial killer arrested

On this day, April 18, in 2000, serial killer Robert Yates Jr. was arrested in Spokane, Wash.

Yates, a decorated former Air National Guard helicopter pilot and father of five, confessed to killing 14 people over 25 years. Police connected him to the crimes after finding a button belonging to one of his victims and DNA evidence in a white Corvette Yates once owned.

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