Daniel Joseph Yates is the stuff of nightmares! He picks up 3 young kids hitchhiking, and drives them to a remote location. Only 2 kids make it out alive. Their horrifying experience and the injuries they are left with are unimaginable.
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AP News
September 18, 1987
https://apnews.com/article/9e2e0b4f9adc27f1e129ac394d17ef0f
AP News
October 8, 1988
https://apnews.com/article/56ab1dfaa2c541dff7d0236bca944799
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JoAnne Marez — May 21st, 1991
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Kitsap Sun
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Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
https://law.justia.com/cases/oklahoma/court-of-appeals-criminal/1980/5480.html
YATES v. STATE
1980 OK CR 88
620 P.2d 413
Case Number: F-79-691
Decided: 10/23/1980
Kitsap County Superior Court
CASE NUMBER: 87-1-00444-7
Available for purchase from the WA State Court Archives
Daniel Joseph Yates aka Michael Wayne Smith
Trial Date: September 12 – October 14, 1988
Date of sentence: 10/20/1988
Superior Court of Appeals – Pierce County Washington
http://courts.mrsc.org/appellate/064wnapp/064wnapp0345.htm
Feb 20, 1992
STATE v. YATES
THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, Respondent, v. DANIEL JOSEPH YATES, Appellant.
OKLAHOMA – Dept of Corrections
https://www.publicpolicerecord.com/oklahoma/doc-prisoner/YATES_DANIEL/101425
He was serving time in Walla Walla until extradited in 09/02/1994
94-1-00286-1| STATE OF OKLAHOMA VS DANIEL J YATES
COLORADO – Dept of Corrections
https://www.publicpolicerecord.com/colorado/doc-prisoner/YATES_DANIEL/75551
Transferred to Colorado: May 11 2016
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