Body Count, Burl Barer
Body Count, Burl Barer
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Body Count
Devoted Father, Decorated Pilot, Serial Killer

Author: Burl Barer

Narrator: Paul McClain

Unabridged: 9 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Lantern Audio

Published: 09/15/2016

Synopsis

He seemed so normal. Robert Lee Yates, Jr. was a respected father of five who piloted helicopters and served in Desert Storm and the National Guard. No one suspected him of having a deadly hidden life. By night, he prowled streets in search of prostitutes. He gained their trust then shot them in the head. The bodies of two young women were discovered in Spokane, Washington on August 26, 1997. Four more women were discovered in the following few months. To avoid the death penalty, Yates pleaded guilty to thirteen murders in 2000. A year later, though, he was convicted of two more murders and now waits on death row in Washington State. Award-winning author Burl Barer's real life thriller is a shocking portrait of one man's depravity.

About Burl Barer

Burl Barer is a Edgar Award winning author and two-time Anthony Award nominee with extensive media, advertising, marketing, and public relations experience. In addition to non-fiction/ true crime best sellers, Barer also writes new adventures of Leslie Charteris's The Saint, and the Jeff Reynolds series of private eye novels and the American Panther series based on the life of the world's greatest safe cracker, Paul "Punch" Stanimirovic. Barer spent two years adapting Pouran Rahimi's important oral history of the persecution of Iran's Baha'i community, Love at the Cost of Life, into conversational English, and deems it the one effort on his part that will still be read in a hundred years.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nat on August 11, 2019

rue crime is one of my favourite genre's to read. Maybe even my 1st preference. I've always been fascinated by crimes and criminals, and I guess that's what lead me to my career/profession. For me, the main point I like to get from a true crime book is that the victims were people. Human beings. Cap......more

Goodreads review by Sean on November 04, 2014

Terrible book What a letdown. 75% of the book was like reading a phone book, very monotonous and uninteresting. There was absolutely no insight into Yates state of mind, motivation or methodology in his crimes and actions, instead, the author chose to focus on mundane points in the investigation and......more

Goodreads review by Tamika on January 24, 2015

Good book!......more

Goodreads review by ♥ Marlene♥ on September 17, 2015

Burl does not like my review! Another author who can't behave? My review and his post I also posted this review on amazon and today I received a notice that the author has replied there. Well. Not sure if I am going to buy his books anymore. I gave it 3 stars but he thinks I am talking shit apparently......more

Goodreads review by Louise on April 06, 2009

Good book! From back cover: "Not since the Green River Killer had the Pacific Northwest been terrorized by so savage a serial murderer as Robert Lee Yates, Jr., 48. On August 26, 1997, the half-naked body of 20-year old prostitute Heather Hernandez was found in an empty lot in Spokane, Washington. T......more

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