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The Family Man Killer - May 27 2020 - Daily True Crime

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Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

May 27th: Robert Lee Yates Born (1952) When you hear the term “family man” you think of a devoted dad, loving husband, and support system of a family unit. You don’t, necessarily think cold blooded killer who targeted sex workers for no apparent reason. On May 27th 1952 a deviant “family man” was born. Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Information for this episode collected from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lee_Yates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the silver-racement-office.

0:05.0

A weird...

0:06.0

...by one investigator is reminiscent of a weird religion.

0:09.0

When you hear the term family man, you think of a devoted dad, loving husband, and the support system of a family unit.

0:18.0

You don't necessarily think of a cold-blooded killer who targeted

0:22.7

sex workers for no apparent reason. On May 27, 1952, a deviant family man was born. So if you like your

0:31.9

coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

0:40.1

Robert Lee Yates Jr. was born on May 27, 1952, and by all means, was a decent family man.

0:49.1

He grew up as a seventh-day Adventist in a middle-class family in Oak Harbor, Washington, worked as a corrections

0:55.6

officer in Walla Walla, and later enlisted and served in the U.S. Army until 1996, where he was

1:02.4

considered an accomplished and well-decorated pilot. His first marriage only lasted two years, but

1:09.2

in 1974, he married a woman named Linda Brewer,

1:13.2

and together they had four daughters and one son.

1:17.3

Basically, on paper, he seemed like a pretty decent guy, who you would be hard-pressed to believe

1:22.3

was involved in a life of crime, especially not murder.

1:27.0

But behind closed doors, Robert was a man who frequented

1:30.1

sex workers and in July of 1975 was ready to make those he was employing his innocent victims.

1:38.2

The first victim, or victims, to be found, were actually two people who were far outside of his

1:43.9

soon-to-be normal victim pool.

1:46.4

Patrick Allen Oliver, 21, and Susan Patricia Savage, 22, were picnicking on Mill Creek near Walla Walla

1:53.7

when they happened upon Robert Yates.

1:56.2

He'd been out there shooting targets when he found the couple and, for whatever reason,

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