Question: Facts: - states: washington - beginyear: 1975 - penalty: death - victims: 16 - caption: prison photo - endyear: 1998 - country: united states - alias: spokane serial killer - apprehended: april 18 , 2000 - birth date: 27 may 1952 - name: robert lee yates , jr. - image size: 200px - birthname: robert lee yates , jr. - image: robert lee yates.jpg - birth place: spokane , washington , u.s. Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of robert lee yates .
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robert lee yates , jr. -lrb- born may 27 , 1952 -rrb- is an american serial killer from spokane , washington .from 1996 to 1998 , yates is known to have murdered at least 13 women , all of whom were prostitutes working on spokane 's '' skid row '' on e. sprague avenue .yates also confessed to two murders committed in walla walla in 1975 and a 1988 murder committed in skagit county .in 2002 , yates was convicted of killing two women in pierce county .he currently is on death row at the washington state penitentiary .