Robert Lee Yates preyed on sex workers that he solicited. Every known victim of Yates' was shot in the head. Before terrorizing Spokane, Yates lived in Oak Harbor and ironically enough, would work at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla for nearly two years as ...
Washington Ghost Town is Haunted By The Most Gruesome Murders In State History The abandoned town ofGovan, Washingtonsits a few hours north of Tri-Cities in Lincoln County off of Highway 2. With the exception of a couple of occupied homes,the townis a ghost town (cue whistling wind and c...
murder rate is still notably high. For example, the Canadian homicide rate stood at 1.94 in 2023, while the homicide rate in England and Wales was even lower. Read more Total number of homicides in the United States in 2023, by state ...
is committed within the borders of a state, that state has jurisdiction. Similarly, if the crime is committed in the District of Columbia (otherwise known as Washington, D.C.), the D.C Superior Court (the equivalent of a state court in the District) retains jurisdiction, though in some ...
Many suspects, including the former cop arrested in the Golden State Killer case, await a trial. This was the first case using the technique to go before a jury. Other than semen at two crime scenes, little else tied the defendant to the killings. His defense argued the semen came...
for the murders of the University of Idaho students He is being charged with burglary and four counts of first-degree murder. Kohberger was a Ph.D. student at Washington State University, which is located roughly 8 miles from the murder scene in Moscow, Idaho. Law enforcement say they were...
Talbott has remained behind bars since he was first arrested in 2018. If the verdicts had not been reinstated, he would have faced another trial. He has been serving time at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. “What struck me is that common sense prevailed,”...
Code of Washington 9A.04.080 (no limitations period for murder) and California Penal Code 799 PC (no limitations period for an offense punishable by death or by imprisonment in the state prison for life or for life without the possibility of parole). See, for example, 720 IL. Code Sections...
Zodiac killer, unidentified American serial killer who is believed to have murdered at least five people in northern California between 1968 and 1969. The case inspired the 1971 action film Dirty Harry, which starred Clint Eastwood, and it was the subjec
On Nov. 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were mysteriously stabbed to death in a house near the Moscow, Idaho, campus. Over one month later, suspect Bryan Kohberger, a criminology Ph.D. student at nearby Washington State University, was taken into custody. Kohberger could face ...