Monster in Spokane (2010)

Unusual Suspects: Monster in Spokane (2010)

Terrific episode of ‘Usual Suspects’ that examines the crimes of Robert Lee Yates, an American serial killer who in the late 1990’s terrorised  residents of Spokane, Washington with a grizzly run of murders on female prostitutes working the Skid Row section of town…

“In 2000, he was convicted of 13 counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder in Spokane County Superior Court. The judge sentenced Yates to 408 years in prison, essentially a life sentence. Yates avoided the death penalty by confessing to the Spokane County murders in exchange for the life sentence….” Wikipedia