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Serial Killing : A Podcast

Robert Lee Yates

Serial Killing : A Podcast

Elissa Kerrill

True Crime

4.31K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Robert came from good, hard-working parents where there was no evidence of abuse or neglect. He did have a grandmother who killed her own husband, but was that enough for him to go on to do the crimes he did? 

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0:00.0

From about 15 years on and

0:05.0

15 years on and up, a great deal of my thoughts were,

0:15.0

basically unshareable.

0:18.8

We are all evil in some form where another.

0:19.8

Oh, yeah, yes, I am. Not 100% but I am not a hundred percent, but I am.

0:25.0

My mother was a sick, angry, hungry, and very sad woman. I hated her, but I wanted to love my mother.

0:37.0

This is serial killing, a podcast.

0:41.0

Hello, my beloved murder fam and welcome back to serial killing a podcast. This is

0:48.9

A Lissa Carroll and this is serial Saturday where every Saturday we go through the life stories of serial

0:56.5

killers to see if we might catch a glimpse of why they displayed their famous vile and disturbing behaviors.

1:07.0

This week's podcast will be on Robert Lee Yates.

1:12.0

Now, I kind of briefly covered him on last Saturday's

1:15.7

podcast where we did the same time serials but he was actually one of the only ones

1:21.0

that I didn't have a podcast on all by himself, so I thought I might cover

1:26.0

him this time.

1:30.0

Robert Lee Yates was born on May 27th, 1952 in Spokane, Washington. So let's get into some

1:38.0

history for that time. In 1952, the United States, as well as the United Kingdom, began testing bombs.

1:49.5

The U.S. tested the first hydrogen bomb at the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean, which, by the way,

1:57.0

Edmund Kemper's father took part in. Yes, my friends, he was there. He actually said dealing with those bombs was easier than dealing with Edmonds mother.

2:09.0

Now the Thermonuclear bomb, code named Mike, was dropped on an island as part of Operation Ivy.

2:17.8

The island was completely destroyed by the blast. Wildlife and vegetation on the surrounding islands was also destroyed.

2:30.0

This success accelerated the nuclear arms race during the Cold War.

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