OLYMPIA, Wash. - The state Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for serial killer Robert Yates. In a ruling Thursday the court said it found no reversible ...

The Washington State Supreme Court has rejected Spokane serial killer Robert Yates’ appeal of his death sentence for the murder of two women in Pierce County. Yates filed a boilerplate appeal with 25 ...

SPOKANE — Attorneys for convicted Spokane Serial Killer Robert Yates have filed their application for a stay of his execution which is scheduled for later this month. Last Friday a judge in Pierce ...

SEATTLE -- The Washington state Supreme Court has dismissed a petition by convicted killer Robert Lee Yates Jr., who sought to withdraw guilty pleas in connection with murdering more than a dozen ...

SEATTLE — Serial killer Robert Yates, whose death sentence has been upheld by the is seeking an appeal through the federal court system. The Seattle Times reports he filed a petition Wednesday in ...

On April 18, 2000, when Spokane County Sheriff's deputies arrested Robert Lee Yates Jr. on his way to work, the Serial Killer Task Force beat the odds. Only 30 percent of serial killers are ever ...

SPOKANE -- Spokane County officials trying to sell two vehicles used by convicted serial killer Robert Yates are waiting for a ruling from the online auction service eBay. To recover money spent to ...

SPOKANE -- Convicted serial killer Robert Yates Jr. points to a more notorious serial killer in arguing that his Pierce County death sentence should be overturned. Lawyers for Yates, sentenced to ...

SPOKANE - The 20-by-20-foot room where detectives spent three years tracking serial killer Robert Yates Jr. is a tidy place. Thousands of tips are catalogued in three-ring binders. A detailed account ...

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 ...