Body Count

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Burl Barer. Body Count

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Respected family man, father of five, and Desert Storm veteran, Yates earned numerous medals for his nineteen-year military service. Yet, something compelled him to prey upon vulnerable women of high-risk lifestyles, shooting them in the head while they tried to satisfy his sexual desires. He left a trail of discarded bodies along well-traveled roads, but buried one victim right under his wife’s bedroom window.

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Because Patrick had only recently returned from Europe and Susan had spent some time in Mexico, Ray considered that perhaps something happened outside the USA that accounted for the killings. “We’ve drawn an absolute blank on any kind of motive from here,” said Ray, “and I think we can eliminate Susan as being the target for the killer because she has been home from Mexico for quite some time. But Pat was only back for two weeks when he was killed.”

Ray asked a resident FBI agent concerning the proper procedure for requesting assistance from Interpol. Complete information on Patrick Oliver’s travels and activities were then sent to Interpol headquarters. It was learned that after Oliver left Paris, he went to Amsterdam for a short visit. The hotel in which he stayed was a suspected drug-distribution center and the scene of a large narcotics bust prior to his return to Walla Walla. The question evolved: was Patrick Oliver the informant who “blew the whistle” on the hotel’s drug traffic? If so, perhaps an international drug syndicate hired a hit man to travel all the way to Walla Walla to kill Oliver in retribution or to silence him.

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