Robert Lee Yates Jr. - Part 3 - The Net Closes

September 24th, 1997. A Spokane patrol officer pulls over a white Corvette near East Sprague. The driver is Robert Lee Yates Jr. He’s ticketed and allowed to go. The officer fills out the field interview report and writes one word in the vehicle make field.
Camaro.
In Part Three of the Robert Lee Yates Jr. arc, Dan and Becka follow the investigation from the inside — the task force, the databases, the September 1999 interview where he sweats through his shirt and walks out a free man, the Corvette that finally closes the net, and the morning of April 18th, 2000 when it all ends on Market Street. Then the sentencing hearing, 408 years, and Pierce County Prosecutor John Ladenburg’s decision that he is not bound by anything Spokane negotiated.
Content warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of homicide, sexual violence, and the failures of institutional response.