English: Robert Yates, serial killer, timeline: [15,850]

January 31, 1998 - The killings of seven women since late summer - four of them in the last weeks of  1997 - have resurrected the specter of Seattle's Green River killer. A task force investigating the suspected serial killings is also looking into possible links with 11 other unsolved killings of area women since 1984 - the year the Green River killings halted at a three-year toll of 49 women. Based on FBI analysis of the crimes authorities announced: "At this time, we're very confident in saying that our individual, or individuals, is in no way connected to the Green River killer." [Gary Ridgeway was the “Green River Killer” and is currently incarcerated].

February 12, 1998 - An hour after the end of a candlelight vigil held for the victims of a serial killer in Spokane, police announced that they had found a new body. Police suspect a serial killer to be responsible for the deaths of six since November. The women all died of gunshot wounds and their bodies were found in rural areas. Police are also looking into possible links with 11 other unsolved killings of area women since 1984.

April 4, 1998 - Police believe a woman whose body was found on the same hillside outside Spokane where two previous victims were discovered in December is possibly the 7th victim of the local serial killer. Like the six other victims, Linda Marie Maybin, 34, died of a gunshot wound, and had been missing since Nov.22. Investigators would not say how many other similarities the latest case shared with the other deaths, other than to note the common dumping site.

June 12, 1998 - A badly decomposed body discovered in a wooded area near Spokane has authorities thinking that a suspected serial killer may have struck again. Spokane police say the remains were so badly decomposed that they were not even able to tell the gender of the victim.

The body was found by a transient in a grassy lot. Police say the body was covered with branches and a hot tub cover. Evidence at the scene was similar to evidence found at the scenes of the other murders. Task force members say there are various similarities in the murder of Michelyn Derning and the other victims.

July 9, 1998 - Michelyn Derning, 47, whose nude body was found in a vacant lot, is believed to be the eighth victim. All the victims had been shot and their bodies dumped in out-of-the-way areas. Another 43-year-old woman has not been seen since mid-May and could be another victim, police said. The Spokane woman was known to associate with some of the past victims. Investigators also are looking into any links the presumed serial slayings may have with as many as a dozen other unsolved slayings of women in the Spokane area since 1984

September 3, 1998 - Melody Ann Murfin a missing woman from Spokane who disappeared on May 13, has been added to the list.  Investigators put on the list after spending more than three months trying to locate her. Although she has not been confirmed dead, investigators do not believe the 43-year-old –is still alive.

October 10, 1998 - Authorities investigating the Spokane serial killings have visited a man in North Dakota suspected in three local deaths and two disappearances in the 1970s and 1980s. He  was ruled out as a suspect in the Spokane case following his interview with detectives.
October 21, 1998 - Authorities in Pierce County believe the Spokane serial killer may have struck again in Pierce County. It appears that a body found at Parkland could have been dumped there by the Spokane killer.

November 17, 1998 - Mark Sterk, Spokane's sheriff-elect, says the search for the serial killer is the community's top public safety priority.

March 4, 1999 - A human hand found by a dog in the woods south of Snolqualmie, Washington, led authorities to the discovery of the skeletal remains of Jennifer Diane Justus. Though her profile is similar to the victim profile of the Spokane Killer, authorities believe she is not the killer's 11th victim.

April 15, 1999 – Police seeking a serial killer searched a home in an affluent area of Spokane's South Hill, but declined to link the search to the slayings. The search was related to the kidnap and rape of a woman in downtown Spokane in February, Spokane County sheriff's spokesman Dave Reagan said.

April 17, 1999 - Officers in Spokane found partially burned human bones in the furnace of a downtown apartment building. Police haven't determined if the bones are those of the missing woman, fits the profile of 10 victims of a the serial killer. Despite the similarities, investigators don't believe the bones are those of a serial killer victim.

April 18, 1999 - The former manager of a Spokane apartment building where human bones were found was questioned by detectives in the disappearance of a woman in 1993. Stanley Pietrzak was one of the last people seen with Michelle Wright before she disappeared in October 1993, the woman's mother said. Wright lived with Pietrzak during the week before her disappearance. A police source confirmed Saturday that Pietrzak was investigated in the case. He was never charged, the officer said. Pietrzak served as manager of the Helen Apartments, where the incinerated bones were found, from about November 1997 to October 1998.

May 6, 1999 - One day after being criticized by police union leaders, Chief Alan Chertok came under fire for tying his predecessor to Spokane's serial killer investigation. Sheriff Mark Sterk said that his office has investigated comments Chertok made last month to a high school class about former Chief Terry Mangan's possible involvement in the serial killer case. Detectives were trying to determine whether Chertok had jeopardized the serial killer case when he mentioned that at least one tipster had told investigators they should consider Mangan a suspect in the case, Sterk said. The sheriff said tips about Mangan did come in, along with hundreds of others, but quickly were dismissed. Mangan is not a suspect in the serial killings and "never will be," said the sheriff. Chertok said his off-hand comment about Mangan wasn't meant to be taken seriously.

May 27, 1999 - Spokane's Police Chief resigned as Chief following the outrage resulting from an off-the-cuff remark to a high school class.

June 7, 1999 - A new Women's Shelter in downtown Spokane has opened its doors to quell the fear incited by a local serial killer. The shelter will house single women w/o children regardless of whether they are sober.

July 21, 1999 - Former Spokane Police Chief Alan Chertok, who resigned under pressure for suggesting his predecessor was a suspect in their serial killer investigation, has taken a job as interim chief of police at a community college in Southern California.

October 13, 1999 - A year after the killer's last known victim was discovered, the Spokane serial killer task force investigating renewed its call for tips from the public. Nearly 5,000 tips about the killer have flowed in to the task force in the past two years. 30 % of the leads have been followed up by more than a dozen city, county and state law enforcement detectives.

In January 2000 police tracked down the new owners of the Corvette and obtained permission to search the car. In it they found a mother-of-pearl cuff button missing from Joseph's jacket as well as carpet fibers matching those found on her shoes and blood stain on the seat-belt buckle matching her parent's DNA. "The white 'Vette was really the link to Mr. Yates," sheriff Sterk said.

March 2, 2000 - Investigators said they had a genetic identifier of the killer found at crime scenes.

March 17, 2000 - More reward money is being offered in the search for the Spokane serial killer. The FBI is contributing up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of a suspect.

April 18, 2000 - At 6:23 a.m. Spokane County sheriff's deputies arrested a man on his way to work in connection with the 1997 murder of a local woman. Detectives would not release the identity of the victim but said they will try to get a search warrant to draw blood from the suspect and compare it to DNA samples of the Spokane serial killer. Spokane Sheriff's spokesman Reagan said: "We are very optimistic. This is really our first big break in our investigation."

April 20, 2000 - The three-year investigation into the serial murders of up to 18 Spokane, Tacoma and Kitsap County woman seems to have come to an end with the arrest of Robert Lee Yates. A balding 47-year-old husband of 24 years, father of five, aluminum worker and Desert Storm veteran.

Yates was a near-20-year veteran of the armed forces who was stationed in New York, Massachusetts and Alabama, as well as Germany and Somalia. In 1997, after retiring from the service and moving to Spokane, he joined the National Guard. As a guardsman he spent one weekend a month trained at Fort Lewis south of Tacoma. "He came to us very, very qualified. In the three years he was assigned to us, he was a good performer. He did an excellent job," said Lt. Col. Rick Patterson, a National Guard spokesman. His friends and neighbors were in shock with the suspect's newfound infamy. "Bob Yates, he was a great guy. He really was," said Gary Berner, an Oak Harbor dentist who's been his friend since high school

He also enjoyed washing and tinkering with his cherished white 1977 Corvette, which ultimately led to his arrest. At the timeod his arrest, according to sheriff's Captain John Simmons, "He was just one of many, many names that had apparent potential." After the interview both detectives remarked they thought he sweated just a little too much.

April 21, 2000 - Authorities announced the identities of 9 women believed to have been shot to death by Robert L. Yates Jr. between 1997 to 1998, and he is linked to 6 of the cases by DNA evidence and to 3 others by physical evidence that has yet been disclosed.

April 25, 2000 - German police said they were investigating whether Yates was involved in any crimes while he was stationed in Germany. "It is possible the former U.S. soldier could be linked to unsolved murders in Germany, although we have nothing concrete as yet," a police spokesman said. Police in Watertown, New York, where Yates was stationed after returning from Germany, are looking for links between Yates and an unsolved prostitute murder.

April 26, 2000 - Spokane County Sheriff Mark Sterk asked county commissioners for more money to continue the investigation into suspected serial killer Robert Lee Yates. Sterk requested additional storage space for the 9 vehicles Yates owned or previously owned and funds to pay for the vehicles confiscated from new owners. He also asked the commissioners to add a specialized prosecutor to the case who would work exclusively with the task force.

April 30, 2000 - The Spokane task force investigating suspect Robert Lee Yates have uprooted a 12-foot blue spruce tree next to his home. Spokane County sheriff's Cpl. David Reagan said they also sifted soil from another site where neighbors said Yates removed a hedgerow and filled in the area with new soil. Yates said he replanted the tree after it was knocked over by a drunken driver

May 12, 2000 - The FBI sent a genetic profile and of Yates to Germany where authorities are investigating the deaths of nearly two dozen women. Yates, served two tours of duty in Germany while on active duty as a helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army in the 1980s and 1990s. He was at a base in Hanau from August 1980 to February 1984, the Pentagon said. He returned to Germany in May 1988, and was stationed at a base near Goeppingen until 1991. German police  are highly  interested in any evidence found in a 1988 Chevrolet van that Yates had shipped to Germany.

May 17, 2000 - Investigators revealed they have found a woman who survived an attack by Yates. "That was a surprise and it was a stroke of good luck," Spokane County Sheriff's Office spokesman Dave Reagan said.

May 18, 2000 - On the day of his 48th birthday, Robert L. Yates Jr., was charged with 8 counts of aggravated first-degree murder, 1 of attempted murder and one count of robbery. The attempted murder and robbery charges are for the August 1998 attack on Christine Smith. Both Prosecutor Tucker and Sheriff Sterk revealed that Yates left plastic bags over most of the victims' heads. The bags became the "signature" which identified for investigators that the rash of prostitute murders in Spokane and Tacoma were the work of one individual. Tucker and Sterk added that since his arrest DNA and other physical evidence has linked Yates to the crimes.
May 18, 2000 - The surviving serial killer victim was identified as 32-year-old Christine Smith. She is believed to have survived an August 1998 attack by Yates. Smith said he picked her up in a black van near East Sprague and drove her behind a clinic where she agreed to perform oral sex on him on a mattress on the back of the van. On the way there she asked him if he was the "psycho killer" who was killing prostitutes to which he answered no, adding that he had five kids and wasn't into that type of thing. Then he allegedly shot her in the head when he was unable to become aroused and asked for his $40 back. When she saw that she was bleeding she climbed out of the van, ran to a rehabilitation center and was taken to a hospital where doctors closed the wound with three stitches. Shortly after she reported the incident to police, even though she was unaware at the time that she had been shot. A year later, after Smith was in an automobile accident, an X-ray revealed bullet fragments in her head. On May 18 Smith contacted authorities again after she recognized Yates as her attacker from a mugshot published in the Spokesman-Review. Since the emergence of Smith as a potential witness, detectives have searched a van formerly owned by Yates that matches the one described by Smith. Numerous stains of human blood were found inside. A .25-caliber casing was found on the floor and a spent bullet was discovered in the roof track above the windshield. Smith has agreed to remove the bullet fragments form her head to see if they match the other bullets recovered from the other victims.

May 23, 2000 - Detectives in Spokane wrapped up their investigation into the home of Robert Lee Yates Jr. and returned family possessions that were taken from the house. Since his arrest more than a month ago the house has been surrounded by a blue tarp while investigators searched every inch of the property. The search yielded evidence in the yard matching clippings and detritus found near the dump sites of three of his alleged victims.

May 24, 2000 - Investigators from Vancouver have contacted Spokane authorities to determine if Robert Yates could be involved in the disappearance of 29 local sex-trade workers. In fact more than 30 jurisdictions have contacted the Spokane Sheriff's Department for information on Yates and his whereabouts as a military careerist before settling in Spokane for a life of rape and murder.

May 26, 2000 - Richard Fasy, the public defender representing Robert Lee Yates, filed a motion to have the case reassigned from Judge Kathleen O'Connor to another Spokane County Superior Court judge. Fasy declined to elaborate on the request. "It involves too many conversations that are confidential for me to appropriately make any kind of comment."

May 28, 2000 - Pointing at a new trend of profiting from high-visibility murder cases, Spokane's Superior Court announced that they will sell copies of Robert Yates' 462-page indictment at $1 per page. According to Gary Berg, chief deputy court clerk, four news outlets have already bought the whole stack of court documents.

June 7, 2000 - Investigators are still waiting to search Robert Yates' locker at Ft. Lewis. The Pentagon apparently did not accept the search warrant presented by detectives and ordered the locker to be shut with a safety wire until they received a federal warrant.

June 17, 2000 - Following the arrest of  Robert Lee Yates, the Downtown Women's Shelter in Spokane has been forced to close its doors. The shelter opened a year ago when local prostitutes were being hunted by an unidentified predator.

July 12, 2000 - Spokane County sheriff's detectives searched two lockers used by  Robert Yates Jr. when he performed helicopter flights at Fort Lewis near Tacoma. Investigators did not say what evidence, if any, was found. Richard Fasy, Yates' lawyer, said the search was expedited with Yates' consent. "It's my expectation that nothing of evidentiary value was found in the lockers," Fasy said.

July 20, 2000 - The Rotary Club 21 of Spokane donated $1,000 to the family of serial killings defendant Robert Yates. Donations totaling nearly $7,000 have trickled in since his April 18 arrest. The family, who was forced out of their home in an upper-middle class neighborhood on Spokane's South Hill, has had to deal with several unanticipated expenses while having no new income.

July 21, 2000 - Spokane County prosecutor Steve Tucker, planning his case against Robert Yates, asked the state prosecutors group to propose a change to the state legislature that would not force prosecutors to prove the murders were part of a common scheme or plan in order to ask for the death penalty. Tuckers proposed change in the law would eliminate that requirement and make multiple murders automatic death penalty cases.

October 18, 2000 - In a deal that would spare him the death penalty Spokane serial killer Robert L. Yates pleaded guilty to 13 murders.

The 1988 murder he confessed to is believed to have been the first prostitute killing of his serial killing career. Yates' known body count has reached 14 victims. Spokane County prosecutor Steve Tucker said he agonized over the plea agreement, but felt he didn't have enough evidence to prove the aggravating circumstances he needed to convince a jury to impose the death penalty. Under state law, if the prosecution wanted to go for the death penalty they would have had to prove that the victims were killed to cover up a robbery, which was not the case in the Yates slayings.

October 23, 2000 - Police agencies around the state of Washington are trying to determine if confessed serial killer Robert L. Yates Jr. is responsible for more deaths than the 15 already attributed to him. "We're not convinced we have all the victims," state Atty. Gen. Christine Gregoire said. Investigators from Washington, Oregon and British Columbia met recently to discuss two large gaps -- from 1975-88 and from 1988-96 -- in Yates' the murderous timeline.

Yates has pleaded guilty to 10 murders in Spokane occurring between 1996 and 1998.

October 25, 2000 - Spokane County Prosecutor Steve Tucker said DNA testing has failed to match two blood stains found in his truck to any of the victims Robert Yates confessed to killing. Tucker added that Yates has taken a lie detector test, showed he was not lying when he said there were no more victims.

October 26, 2000 - Spokane serial killer Robert L. Yates was sentenced to 408 years in prison after striking a plea bargain and confessing to 13 killings. "I pray that God will right the wrongs that I have committed and that justice will bring closure," the repentant prostitute killer told a small courtroom packed with sobbing relatives of his victims. Spokane County Superior Judge Richard Schroeder also fined Yates $60,000, and signed him over to the custody of the Pierce County sheriff. Family members of victims, during sentencing testimony, confronted Yates. "Do you have any idea what it's like to go to a cemetery for a family reunion for 25 years?" said Chris Oliver, brother of victim Patrick Oliver, who he killed in Walla Walla in 1975. "He has disgraced and dishonored every uniform he ever wore," said John Joseph, father of Jennifer Joseph, killed in 1997.

November 1, 2000 - Though having admitted to 13 murders in Spokane, Walla Walla and Skagit counties, Yates pleaded innocent to two murder charges in Pierce County Superior Court in Tacoma. Judge John McCarthy, who will preside over Yates' Tacoma trial, ordered Yates held without bail in the Pierce County Jail pending a pretrial hearing Nov. 16.

November 11, 2000 - The wife of serial killer Robert L. Yates Jr. said she asked her husband why he killed all those women. "I said, 'Do you know why you killed these women?'" Linda Yates recalled in an interview aired on NBC. "And how you could have done this, and still be married to me?" Yates did not answer. However, in court, his lawyer tried to blame his mania on a neighbor who sexually molested him as a young boy. During her "Dateline" interview Linda also talked about what can now be seen as tell-tale signs of her husband's extracurricular activities. "Especially when he said he was going hunting, and he was dressed up nice, and had cologne on," she said." "You don't go out hunting with cologne on." She added that she confronted her husband about having extramarital affairs. "He always had answers to everything," she said. "Already prepared in his mind, I think."

January 9, 2001 - The Spokane County Sheriff's Office, Spokane Police Department, Washington State Patrol and the Spokane County Prosecutor's Office, will share a $2 million federal grant over three years to help make up money spent on the investigation that led to the arrest and conviction of serial killer Robert Yates Jr. The money, which comes from the Byrne Discretionary Grant Program, was attached to an appropriations bill by Republican U.S. Rep. George Nethercutt, said Tom McArthur, Nethercutt's spokesman. The bill was signed by President Clinton.

January 11, 2001 - Pierce County began case against Spokane serial killer Robert L. Yates Jr. in June. Prosecutors said they sought the death penalty against Yates for the two murder cases against him in Tacoma. "I'll be honest with you, we didn't agonize over it," said Pierce County Prosecutor Gerald Horne "This is a compelling case to ask for the death penalty."

January 25, 2001 - The life trail of confessed serial killer Robert Yates Jr. is being re-assembled by a Spokane homicide task force to determine whether the willy killer is responsible for the 15 murders he's been charged with. Once the time line is complete, the task force will host a national conference to share the information with other law enforcement agencies.

April 12, 2001 - Pierce County prosecutors say Robert L. Yates Jr.'s previous convictions in the Spokane serial killings will shed light for jurors on the two murders he's charged with in this county. Defense attorneys, though, have promised to try to keep details of Yates' 13 murder convictions secret in order not to prejudice the jury against him. Pierce County Superior Court Judge John McCarthy is expected to hear arguments on the issue later this month. Yates is charged in Pierce County with two counts of aggravated first-degree murder for the killings of Melinda Mercer, 24, and Connie LaFontaine Ellis, 35. If convicted he could get the death penalty. Pierce County's chief criminal deputy prosecutor, Jerry Costello, said prosecutors have to prove that the Pierce County murders were part of a common scheme because that's one of the "aggravating factors" prosecutors allege. Prosecutors say that common scheme was a killing spree of drug-addicted prostitutes that included Ellis' and Mercer's deaths. Mercer was last seen alive Dec. 6, 1997. Her body was found less than 24 hours later near Fort Lewis, where Yates served as a helicopter pilot for the Washington Army National Guard. She had been shot with a .25 caliber bullet and four grocery bags were wrapped around her head.

Ellis was last seen alive Sept. 11, 1998. Her body was found a month later. Like Mercer, Ellis had been shot in the head with a .25 caliber bullet. Her head was wrapped in three grocery bags. Yates' DNA was found in semen samples retrieved from Mercer, while Ellis' blood was found inside a van owned by Yates. In both cases, forensic scientists were able to recover bullet fragments and match them to a .25 caliber Raven model semi-automatic pistol. Court documents showed Yates owned two pistols of that caliber and model.

October 4, 2002 - A Pierce County court sentenced Robert Lee Yates Jr. was sentenced to death for the murders of Melinda Mercer, 24, in 1997 and Connie LaFontaine Ellis, 35, in 1998. The two cases went to court after Pierce County prosecutors refused to sign off on the Spokane plea deal and charged Yates with aggravated first-degree murder, the state's only capital crime. Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecutor Jerry Costello, said "He richly deserved the death penalty."

Yates showed no emotion when the verdict was read. "The world is a frightening place, and I've made it more so for many," Yates - who has since claimed to have found Christ in prison - told jurors in court during the penalty phase. "Hundreds of people are hurting and grieving because of my actions."

A Juror Speaks:
On October 4, 2002 - William Warren,  Juror #7 wrote:
“I am sure you will be relieved to know that Robert Lee Yates, Jr. has been convicted on two counts of aggravated first-degree murder by a jury in Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, and that the selfsame jury found insufficient cause to grant leniency for the murders of Connie LaFontaine Ellis and Melinda Mercer. Consequently, on Thursday, October 3, 2002, we twelve summarized more than eight weeks' testimony and witnessing into a singular sentence: death.

His attorneys have hinted at a number of options to delay his execution, including a plea that he be required to serve the 408 years he plea-bargained with the Spokane-area officials for (in exchange for admitting to the Spokane murders, the attempted murder of Christene Smith, PLUS killing a picnicking couple in 1975 and another woman in 1988, and providing a map detailing where one of the victims -- Melody Murfin -- could be found, buried under his bedroom window at his Spokane residence) Before he can be executed. You read that correctly: they intend to argue that he must serve the 408 years without possibility of release or parole he was sentenced to in Spokane before he can be executed. He was officially sentenced on Wednesday, October 9, 2002 by Judge John McCarthy in Tacoma. Please don't get me wrong on this: his attorneys, Roger Hunko and Mary Kay High, are consummate professionals and they did the very best they could to get him life in prison rather than the death penalty. I feel very sorry for them, they had a thoroughly rotten case to defend and I'm sure they would rather have been somewhere else, but the case the prosecution presented was thorough and incontrovertible. By strict definition of the laws of the State of Washington, considering all of the evidence presented in the trial, and the instructions we received from the court, the only choice we could make was to invoke the death penalty. The fact that we came to that unanimous decision within three hours' deliberation should not be viewed as a "rush to judgment"; we asked for and received the night off to search our souls and be certain we were crystal clear that this was the only choice, and still the answer came back unanimous. I cannot commend my fellow jurists highly enough: there was no infighting or bickering, no power plays or bullying, but a cohesive and intelligent and sensitive group of people doing a tough job and taking care of each other in the process. We became a family in our time together, a bond we hope to maintain now that our job is done. In his allocution, Yates stated that "...every life has meaning," a theme echoed by Mr. Hunko in closing statements, as well as by one of the prosecuting attorneys, Mr. Costello. We twelve agreed wholeheartedly, and it is our sincere hope that the families of his uncounted victims will find some solace and closure in the fact that Mr. Yates will atone, one way or another, for taking so many of them for his own perverted pleasure. Sadly, in revelations beyond the scope of the trial we heard, it appears that there are several other murders which might be attributable to this man which may never see the light of a courtroom, including that of a 15-year-old girl.

Regardless of that, and irrespective of the appeals processes which may result in commutation of his sentence to the aforementioned 408 years without the possibility of release or parole, I feel that Pierce County stepped up to the plate and fought the good fight. We made the right decision -- the only decision we could possibly make -- and if he actually has (as he claims) rediscovered God and his faith, I hope he finds some comfort with that in the time remaining to him. May God have mercy on all of us. And preserve us from monsters.”

The Victim List:
• Jennifer Joseph, 16, found August 26, 1997
• Darla Sue Scott, 29, found November 5, 1997
• Melinda L. Mercer, 24, was found December 7, 1997
• Shawn L. Johnson, 36, found December 18, 1997.
• Laurel A. Wason, 31, found December 26, 1997, Semen found in her body was genetically matched to Yates.
• Shawn A. McClenahan, 39, also found December 26, 1997
• Sunny G. Oster, 41, found February 8, 1998. matched to Yates' DNA.
• Linda Maybin, 34, found April 1, 1998
• Michelyn Derning, 47, was found July 7, 1998.
• Connie LaFontaine Ellis, 35, was found October 13, 1998.
• Melody Ann Murfin, 43, who disappeared in 1998 and was always regularly included in the Spokane Serial Killer victim list. Her body was found October 18, 2000, buried in a flower bed under the bedroom window of Yates' home. Although authorities thoroughly searched the yard after his arrest, they found Murfin's body after Yates provided them with a man pinpointing its location.
• Patrick Oliver, 21, and Susan Savage, 22, became his first known victims
• Stacy Elizabeth Hawn, 23.
• Christine L. Smith, 32

The gist here, of course, is, not everyone is a serial killer, but anyone can become a serial killer, even the most respected citizens in society. It seems that there are monsters all around us, and it takes a massive effort to open the eyes of people, monsters that rape and kill are the worst type, we must be diligent and on guard, to protect ourselves and our loved ones, lest we become one of their victims!

As always, stay safe !

- Bird

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