He Came Home Smelling of Cologne… With a Body Buried Under the Bedroom Window
A decorated Army helicopter pilot. A churchgoing father of five. The perfect neighbor.
Behind the clean-cut image, Robert Lee Yates Jr. was one of Washington’s most prolific serial killers — the man known as the Grocery Bag Killer. For more than two decades he targeted vulnerable women, shot them, covered their heads in plastic bags, and dumped their bodies. One victim was buried just feet from where his children slept.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson uncovers how Yates hid in plain sight, the chilling details of his crimes, the one woman who survived, and the…
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