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Epiphany


EPISODE NUMBER - 212

DVD DISC - Season 2, Disc 3

ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 01.13.06


DEX: You've fought this thing before?

SHEPPARD: Twice.

DEX: How did you beat it?

SHEPPARD: Still haven't figured that out.


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(The villagers walk forward, their faces determined. Avrid glares up at the Beast as it growls ferociously.)

AVRID (to John): We've come to stand with you, whatever happens.

TEER (looking across to him): No -- we've come to fight. (She looks up at the Beast.) And we are not afraid of you. (The Beast roars.) The Beast is of our own creation










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The Seattle Times


Thursday, April 20, 2000


Father of 5 tied to serial deaths

By Kim Barker, Mike Carter

Seattle Times staff reporter

SPOKANE - The killer was viewed as a monster, as a shadow man who murdered prostitutes and dumped them in out-of-the-way places like Hangman Valley.

But Robert Lee Yates Jr. is a husband of almost 24 years. He is a father of five who has never been convicted of a felony. He is a 47-year-old, slightly balding man who combs his hair from right to left and lives in a split-level home that has a basketball hoop.

Now he's been charged with first-degree murder, suspected of killing Jennifer Joseph, a 16-year-old girl who worked as a prostitute. The evidence is small but damning: A mother-of-pearl button. Bloodstains on the seat-belt buckle of his Corvette. Carpet fibers. DNA.

By the end of yesterday, the Spokane Homicide Task Force announced that it thinks it has found a serial killer. Yates is the leading suspect in the deaths of at least 12 women and maybe 18. Preliminary DNA results and other evidence link Yates to the deaths, said Spokane County Sheriff Mark Sterk, who wouldn't elaborate.

But a law-enforcement source said investigators have been able to link some of the victims to one another - and then allegedly to Yates - through ballistic matches on bullets taken from some of the bodies.

Yates' arrest will almost certainly pique the interest of police in other areas where he lived. While in the Army, Yates lived in New York, Massachusetts and Alabama, and overseas he lived in Germany and Somalia. He joined the Washington Army National Guard in April 1997 and trained one weekend a month at Fort Lewis.

Police in Watertown, N.Y., where Yates was stationed at Fort Drum in the early 1990s, said detectives may travel to Spokane to interview Yates about the unsolved slaying of Tina Hosmer Smith 10 years ago.

Killings began in 1990

The Spokane deaths started in 1990: three that year, one in 1992, one in 1995, one in 1996. Joseph and Heather Hernandez were found the same day, Aug. 26, 1997.

Then the deaths picked up. Darla Sue Scott, found in nearby Hangman Valley in Nov. 5, 1997. Four more in December 1997, five in 1998. Those 10 deaths have been linked to the same killer, but the task force isn't saying how.

Most of the women at some time sold sex. They used drugs. Fourteen were found in Spokane, two in Tacoma and one in south Kitsap County. Melody Murfin just hasn't been found.

This mystery has haunted the community and the state. Were these deaths tied to the Green River killer? Or the missing prostitutes from Vancouver, B.C.? Police looked into these possibilities and came up with nothing conclusive.

People called in more than 6,000 tips to the task force. Serial killer Henry Lee Lucas confessed, but his confession didn't pan out. Neither did a sailor who admitted to a cross-country killing spree last week, nor a man charged with killing his daughter in Spokane.

Now there's Yates. In Spokane, he lived in a subdivision with winding roads and surprise dead-ends and sport-utility vehicles and icicle lights just waiting for the holidays. His house is five miles south of the area where most of the women disappeared.

Yesterday, a crowd gathered around a TV screen in the Spokane Public Safety Building to see Yates in his initial appearance.

He wore drab, olive coveralls. When he was charged with first-degree murder, he scratched at his face. As the court commissioner read the six-page summary of facts, he looked at the ceiling, sometimes straight ahead.

He didn't say much. "Yes." "Yes, it is." "Yes, I am." "No, I don't have anything to say at this time, thank you."

He confirmed he had lived in Spokane for four years and had worked at Kaiser Aluminum since December 1998.

He has a speeding ticket for his Corvette. He was charged with misdemeanor assault, in November 1998, for assaulting his then-19-year-old daughter in their home.

That same month, Spokane police saw Yates pick up a known prostitute. He and the woman in the car told the officer he was driving her home at her father's request. Police interviewed him Sept. 15, 1999, but at that time Yates was just one of many people police were keeping an eye on in connection with the case. He didn't become a "person of interest" until the results of the tests on his car carpet came in.

Court documents released yesterday indicate the Corvette, which Yates bought in September 1994, produced a wealth of evidence linking him to Jennifer Joseph.

According to the prosecutors' statement of facts, Yates frequented prostitutes in the East Sprague Avenue area. Joseph was last spotted there in a white car with a white man.

Yates sold his white Corvette two years ago. But detectives tracked down the car's new owner in January and were given permission to remove carpet fibers. Tests completed early this month showed fibers from that car matched fibers found on Joseph's shoes. Tests showed DNA from bloodstains from the car's passenger seat and seatbelt was 850 times more likely to be from an offspring of Joseph's parents than from a random Caucasian. A mother-of-pearl cuff button was found in the car. It matched another from the jacket Joseph wore. Bond for Yates was set at $1.5 million.

Victim's brother in court

Pat McClenahan watched all of the court hearing yesterday. His boss gave him the day off because his father had died Tuesday night. Now this. His sister was one of the 10 women linked to a serial killer. Shawn McClenahan had once been a phlebotomist, a professional, but she started using painkillers after carpal-tunnel surgery, and she slipped into cocaine, heroin and prostitution. She was found the day after Christmas 1997.

He came to the hearing to see this person face to face. He wants some closure to this.

"She was no angel," he said. "But she wasn't the way people think of girls this happens to - I don't like to use the word prostitute. She was wonderful. She loved everybody."

The women from Spokane worked near East Sprague Avenue, which doesn't look so much like a red-light district as it does like leftovers. There's a sign advertising a meeting place for the local Hell's Angels, the Nomads branch. There's Sonnenberg's, the oldest meat market in town, since 1891. Tattoo shops, a parrot shop, a place with bridal gowns in the window.

This is the place where many women disappeared, and Lynn Everson knows most of them. She is an outreach worker with the Spokane Regional Health District, and she hands out condoms and Tootsie Rolls and hugs to women from a Winnebago.

She points at their pictures and says one wanted to go back to school. Another got a job and almost kicked heroin.

She is talking about this, and the phone rings, someone telling her that Jennifer Joseph is the person tying this man to the killings.

"I only had contact with her once," Everson tells the person. "She was fairly young and very new."










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CBSNEWS


CBS/ February 11, 2009, 9:14 PM

Part II: A Corvette Plays A Key Role

The investigation into the killings intensified. The task force began electronic surveillance of East Sprague Avenue, shooting hundreds of hours of videotape. Despite the extra effort, it wasn’t long before the serial killer struck again. The victim, 47-year-old Michelyn Derning, had been missing for several days by July 7, 1998, when her body was found.

In January 1999, the task force announced that two murders in Tacoma, Washington, 300 miles away, were both linked to the Spokane killer. And then the killings suddenly stopped. Months passed. Sheriff Mark Sterk tried to fight those who wanted to cut his budget.

In the first 18 months of the serial killer case, investigators had amassed a lot of physical evidence. They had DNA samples from several crime scenes, as well as ballistics. But what they needed was a prime suspect. They found one by reexamining one of their earlier leads: the white Corvette.

Police took every registered Corvette owner out of the state of Washington and Idaho, about 3,000. They whittled that down to about 47 potential suspects. Task Force detective Rick Grabenstein tracked down one car, which had been sold by one of the 47 men. He grabbed some carpet fibers from the car. Those fibers were sent to a lab, and compared with fibers taken from the original Jennifer Joseph crime scene. They matched almost exactly.

On April 10, 2000 a search warrant was issued for the car. Police discovered blood on the passenger seatbelt, and a missing button from the blouse belonging to Jennifer Joseph. On April 18, 2000 the Spokane police arrested Robert Yates, Jr. for Joseph’s murder.










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Robert Lee Yates Jr.

BY Gary C. King

The First Body

The stark realization that the deaths of seven women since late summer 1997, four of whom were killed during the year's final weeks, were the work of a serial killer, renewed fears among the public and law enforcement officials alike that the infamous and elusive Green River Killer had found a new killing ground in and around Spokane, Washington. It was only talk and speculation, fueled in large part by the numbers of bodies being found and the fact that many of the victims were prostitutes. The talk and speculation was only quelled by the fact that the killer's method of operation was markedly different from that of the Green River Killer. Nonetheless, it was a possibility that had to be considered, at least initially, given the fact that serial killers have on occasion changed their M.O.s. Disturbingly, the number of bodies would more than double before they stopped, and many others would be attributed to the same killer.

The first indication that a serial killer was at work in and around this eastern Washington city began on February 22, 1990, a Thursday, at approximately 8:30 a.m. when the homicide division of the Spokane Police Department was called to the 4100 block of East Upriver Drive on a report of a young black female whose nude body was lying over the embankment near the Spokane River. The responding officers and later the detectives observed that the young woman had been shot a number of times, and the size of the entrance wounds suggested a small caliber gun had been used. An extensive search of the area failed to turn up any of the victim's clothing or personal effects. The search also failed to turn up any bullets or spent shell casings, an indication that either the killer took care in cleaning up after himself, used a gun that did not eject shell casings, or killed the victim at a different location and then transported the body after death. All that was found with the body was the victim's black wig, a green blanket like those used in the military, a multi-colored blanket, and a white towel.

After some of the details of the discovery of the victim's body were made public, the victim was identified as 26-year-old Yolanda Sapp. The investigators soon learned that Sapp had a history of prostitution arrests and was known to use drugs. She was last seen two days before her body was found in the 3200 block of East Sprague, an area frequented by prostitutes and pimps. At that time she had been wearing black jeans, black slip-on flat-soled shoes, black panties, a black t-shirt, and a beige rabbit fur coat, none of which was found with her body. After interviewing those who were close to her, police determined that nine bracelets were missing from her wrists, as was a silver chain necklace, two rings (one of which was a wedding ring), and a jean or denim purse. As would be done with all of the victims, hair and fiber samples were taken during autopsy, as were oral, anal, and vaginal swabs.





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Robert Lee Yates Jr.

BY Gary C. King

Two More Bodies

A little more than a month later another body was found. This time, on Sunday, March 25, 1990, the Spokane Police Department was called to the 3200 block of East South Riverton regarding a report of a body found in the road shortly after 6 a.m. The victim was a white female, and it was clear to the investigators that she had been shot to death. She was eventually identified as 34-year-old Nickie I. Lowe, who, like the previous victim, had a history of prostitution and drug abuse. Lowe was last seen a day earlier in the East Sprague area of Spokane. During Lowe's autopsy, a .22-caliber bullet was retrieved from her body relatively intact, and it was noted that a strong odor of motor oil emanated from her body. Toxicology tests results confirmed the presence of cocaine and cocaine metabolites in Lowe's body.

Although the detectives investigating the murders of Yolanda Sapp and Nickie Lowe were reasonably certain that both women had been done in by the same killer, little headway was made in the investigation over the next seven weeks and no additional bodies were found, leaving investigators wondering whether their killer had moved on to another locale or was just lying low for awhile. However, they weren't left wondering for long.

On Tuesday, May 15, 1990, at approximately 7:45 p.m., the Spokane County Sheriff's Department responded to a report of a body found in the Trent and Pines area near the banks of the Spokane River. The victim was a white female, and was nude except for rings on her fingers. She also had contusions and lacerations to the head, prompting the investigators to believe that she had been beaten with a blunt object. They also observed gunshot wounds. Crime scene investigators recovered articles of female clothing from the scene, as well as a pair of shoes, a plastic bag stained with blood, a cigarette butt, and vegetation samples. This time, however, they also found tire tracks, the tire tread patterns, which were carefully photographed.

The latest victim was identified as Kathleen Brisbois, 38. Bullets were recovered from her body during the autopsy, and trace evidence such as hair and fiber was collected and sent to the state crime laboratory. Toxicology tests revealed the presence of morphine and cocaine metabolites in Brisbois' body, indicating that she had used cocaine and most likely heroin prior to her death. Investigators believed that she had been engaged in prostitution activities at the time of her death.

By now, because of the similarities of the victims' deaths, the fact that a small caliber gun was used, and the fact that all were engaged in prostitution left little doubt in the investigators' minds that they were dealing with a bonafide serial killer. Just when and where he would strike next was anybody's guess. In the meantime, they were not anywhere close to identifying the killer, and everyone realized that he could leave a large number of bodies in his wake before being apprehended.


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Cyanide poisoning

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cyanide poisoning occurs when a living organism is exposed to a compound that produces cyanide ions (CN−) when dissolved in water. Common poisonous cyanide compounds include hydrogen cyanide gas and the crystalline solids potassium cyanide and sodium cyanide. The cyanide ion halts cellular respiration by inhibiting the enzyme cytochrome c oxidase found in the mitochondria.

Acute poisoning

Cyanide poisoning is a form of histotoxic hypoxia because the cells of an organism are unable to use oxygen, primarily through the inhibition of cytochrome c oxidase. Acute hydrogen cyanide poisoning can result from inhalation of fumes from burning polymer products that use nitrile in their production, such as polyurethane, or vinyl. It can also be caused by breakdown of nitroprusside into nitric oxide and cyanide during treatment of hypertensive crisis.[specify]

If cyanide is inhaled it causes a coma with seizures, apnea, and cardiac arrest, with death following in a matter of seconds. At lower doses, loss of consciousness may be preceded by general weakness, giddiness, headaches, vertigo, confusion, and perceived difficulty in breathing. At the first stages of unconsciousness, breathing is often sufficient or even rapid, although the state of the victim progresses towards a deep coma, sometimes accompanied by pulmonary edema, and finally cardiac arrest. A cherry red skin color that changes to dark may be present as the result of increased venous hemoglobin oxygen saturation. Cyanide does not directly cause cyanosis. A fatal dose for humans can be as low as 1.5 mg/kg body weight.










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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries (2003)


Adama: You don't look too good.










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Highland Drifter



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High Plains Drifter (1973)


Preacher: See here, you can't turn all these people out into the night. It is inhuman, brother. Inhuman!

The Stranger: I'm not your brother.

Preacher: We are all brothers in the eyes of God.

The Stranger: All these people, are they your sisters and brothers?

Preacher: They most certainly are.

The Stranger: ...Then you won't mind if they come over and stay at your place, will ya?



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High Plains Drifter


Then you won´t mind ifthey stay at your place, will ya?
All right, folks, let´s go. Put your bags here.
Friends, don´t worry.
We shall fi nd haven for you in our own homes...
and it won´t cost you one cent more than regular hotel rates.


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Patty Winston: And then he kicked me in my hiney!










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Highlander (1986)


Ramirez: You can't drown, you fool, you're immortal!

[continues rowing]










From 4/9/1986 To 7/19/1989 is 1197 days

From 11/2/1965 To 2/11/1969 is 1197 days










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ER Doctor: And, to answer your question, there are two reasons why I'm looking at you like this. One because it seems in a few minutes you will officially be the only survivor of this train wreck, and two, because you didn't break one bone, you don't have a scratch on you.





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Chapter 2

The next morning the youth discovered that his tall comrade had been the fast-flying messenger of a mistake. There was much scoffing at the latter by those who had yesterday been firm adherents of his views, and there was even a little sneering by men who had never believed the rumor. The tall one fought with a man from Chatfield Corners and beat him severely.


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