Robert Lee Yates Jr

American serial killer and suspect in multiple murders

Robert Lee Yates Jr was an American serial killer, rapist, and child molester. He was arrested in 2004 and subsequently confessed to 15 murders, most of which were committed in the 1990s. Yates was convicted of multiple counts of murder and rape and was sentenced to death. He was executed by lethal injection on July 31, 2004. He was born on September 16, 1965, in Houston, Texas, and grew up in a middle-class family....