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Robert Lee Yates Jr. (born May 27 1952) 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.