S4 Ep3: Robert Lee Yates Jr.

What Makes a Killer

Audioboom Studios

Documentary, True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In August of 1998, a woman by the name of Christine Smith was picked up from her usual spot on the notorious downtown strip known as "the track" in Spokane, Washington. After providing her services to the man, he shot her in the head. She survived the attack, and thinking that the man had stabbed her, fled the car.
She would later learn that she would be the only person to ever survive one of this man’s brutal attacks. For over twenty years, Washington State was plagued by an elusive killer targeting female sex-workers. Investigators would have never guessed that the man they were looking for was acting as an upstanding member of the community and model citizen.

Original music by Ben Krejci, Kai Engel, Sergey Cheremisinov, Kevin MacLeod, Chris Zabriskie, and Daniel Birch. Additional music provided by: Epidemic Sound

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License.

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0:00.0	Granny and Grandpa had their hearts set on getting Jess a drum kit for her birthday.
0:05.0	And because they bought it on their Barclay card, they were rewarded too.
0:09.0	It was music to their ears.
0:11.0	Same can't be said for mum and dad.
0:14.0	What you buy is your business.
0:16.0	Rewarding you is ours.
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0:21.0	Barclay card make money work for you.
0:23.0	28.9% APR represented a variable.
0:26.0	Subject application, financial circumstances and borrowing history.
0:30.0	What makes a killer contains graphic details of sexual assault and violence
0:34.0	and is not intended for all audiences.
0:37.0	Listener discretion is strongly advised.
0:43.0	Spokane, Washington was home to a notorious downtown strip known as the Track
0:49.0	where sex workers found clients.
0:52.0	On August 1, 1998, Christine Smith was working her usual spot.
0:58.0	Christine was approached by a 46-year-old man in a black man.
1:02.0	And after agreeing to provide her services, she got into the vehicle.
1:08.0	Unbeknownst to her, the unassuming man driving the car was a seasoned serial killer.
1:15.0	He pretended to be exactly what he wasn't.
1:18.0	A all-American hero.
1:20.0	Family man was actually a sex addict who killed prostitutes for pleasure.
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