Spokane County also still has 11 unsolved murders, including three that have been linked to one killer. "I think I'd be remiss if I didn't have my people look into this," Bart said. He expects DNA test results within a week. Yates was a support aviator at Fort Rucker, Ala., at the time, but one of his children was attending school in Walla Walla.īart said there are similarities between the couple's death and Yates' other confessed crimes.
Snohomish County Sheriff Rick Bart said detectives there are investigating whether Yates may have killed a Vancouver Island couple discovered near Monroe and Burlington in late 1987. He also wants to know whether Yates might have killed Linda Moran, who vanished from a gas station on the road to Oak Harbor in 1996, the year Yates retired from the Army and moved to Spokane. Her parents are getting older, and Hawley would like to find the killer to give them some peace. Since Yates faces a life sentence for pleading guilty to 13 murders, Hawley just wants an answer from Yates on the death: Yes or no. Hawley said Yates might have known Hesselgrave. Yates grew up in Oak Harbor, just down the road, and he visited often. They want to know whether he might have killed Teresa Hesselgrave, a Coupeville newlywed suffocated on April 15, 1977, when she was 19. Hawley and the Island County prosecutor are trying to interview Yates. "When you look at serial killers, they don't have big gaps like that." "There's that big gap," said Sheriff Mike Hawley of Island County. Now that Yates has admitted killing a couple in 1975 and a woman in 1988, along with the 11 women he killed in Spokane between 19, almost any unsolved homicide in the last 25 years in Washington could get a new look. A detailed timeline is being put together, outlining when Yates lived where.īefore, authorities were concentrating on crimes in recent years. But the Spokane County serial-killer task force plans to keep working through the end of next year on the case.
Yates is supposed to be sentenced to life in prison Thursday. One of the killings he's confessed to is being held out: If he appeals the plea bargain, a 14th murder charge can be filed, and Yates could face the death penalty.
Yates avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty to 13 murders. Dave Reagan, a spokesman for the Spokane County Sheriff's Office. "I honestly, honestly, honestly-having talked to our investigators-have to believe we're not done with Mr. They still think he might have killed elsewhere. They don't take the serial killer's word at face value. says he killed 14 people in Washington state, and a polygraph test indicates he didn't kill anyone else.īut authorities in 47 jurisdictions are still looking at Yates, 48, who has lived and trained all over the world as a helicopter pilot for the U.S.
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