YATES, ROBERT LEE: World’s Most Evil Killers TV - True Crime Recaps 2023 -
August 1st 1998: On a notorious downtown strip known as The Track, a 46-year-old male picked up a sex worker called Christine. The woman didn’t know it yet but the man at the wheel was a serial killer. After having sex with her the killer pulled out his .25 calibre handgun and shot the woman in the head … ‘and miraculously escaped with a bullet wound.’ World’s Most Evil Killers s3e8, Sky Crime 2021
For more than 20 years Yates preyed on vulnerable young women in and around the Pacific northwest. ibid.
He was convicted of killing fourteen young women and one man. However, it’s suspected he may have killed many more. ibid.
Robert Lee Yates: He was a family man with five kids … He was also one of the most depraved individuals to roam the streets. True Crime Recaps: From War Hero to Serial Killer: The Shocking Story of Robert Lee Yates, Youtube 12.27, 2023
That one swab connected him to the 12 other girls between 1996 and 1998. ibid.
YOUNG, ANNA: True Crime Recaps 2021 -
The House of Prayer: After decades of nightmares a daughter turned her cult-leader mother over to the police after witnessing her destroy two innocent toddlers: Anna Young. True Crime Recaps: Four Cult Leaders You May Not Know About, Youtube 25.00, 2021
The cult finally disbanded in 1992 after Anna came under investigation for bathing a 12-year-old girl in a tub of bleach.
YOUNG, GRAHAM: Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook TV - Graham Young - David Wilson TV - Anthony Holden - Crime Library online - The Young Poisoner's Handbook 1995 - Born to Kill? Class of Evil TV - Great Crimes & Trials TV -
Graham Young was a man with a passion for poison. But far from experimenting in laboratories he carried out his deadly trial on friends, family and work colleagues. Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook s1e3: The Teacup Poisoner, CI 2011
His wife Molly [mother-in-law] writhing in agony ... It was Graham. He was motionless as if he was watching an experiment ... Graham Young had claimed his first life and had got away with it. ibid.
At just fourteen he was sentenced to serve fifteen years imprisonment. ibid.
Less than a year after leaving Broadmoor Graham Young was rearrested. ibid.
He saw his existence as one big experiment. ibid.
What I feel is the emptiness of my soul. Graham Young
He [Graham Young] simply wanted to be near people he could bring harm to. Professor David Wilson
I think he may have committed suicide. Professor David Wilson
It would have been interesting to have talked to him [Graham Young], to have met him ... It would have been madness because one would have had a cup of tea. Anthony Holden, author The Young Poisoner’s Handbook
With the help of library books, Graham had already gained the expertise of a chemistry post-graduate. Yet his do-it-yourself chemistry experiments seemed to be a touch more extreme than you might expect even from the most inquisitive schoolboy. He had graduated from nail-varnish remover to inhaling from a bottle of ether to get high. He carried a bottle of acid around with him which once burnt a hole in his school blazer. On other occasions he would extract gunpowder from fireworks to make small bombs. He blew up his neighbor’s wall and a nearby hut, but managed to escape blame for the incidents.
Although Fred Young had never been particularly close to his son, even he couldn't entertain the idea that his own flesh and blood could be deliberately poisoning the family.
If he'd known how his wife’s symptoms would suddenly worsen a few months later, he might have had second thoughts. Crime Library online article
The extraordinary events you are about to see were inspired by the true story of Graham Young. The Young Poisoner’s Handbook 1995 starring Hugh O'Conor & Tobias Arnold & Ruth Sheen & Roger Lloyd-Pack & Norman Caro & Charlotte Coleman et al, director Benjamin Ross, caption
I was very young when I realised I had a gift for chemistry. ibid. opening remarks
The Thallium had been a greater success than I could have hoped. ibid.
I was convicted of murder and attempted murder. And after my trial, which was a swift affair, the judge sent me for medical tests. ibid.
One of history’s most disturbed killers … An unlikely series of crimes carried out over forty years ago … The onset of the mystery illness had coincided with the arrival of a new [factory] storeroom assistant: Graham Young. Born to Kill? Class of Evil s1e5, Really 2018
He started sourcing chemicals and toxins to satisfy a morbid curiosity … Graham Young kept poison close to him at all times. ibid.
Having persuaded his father to cremate his step-mother, Young would only be tried for poisoning his other family members and school-friend Chris Williams. ibid.
Throughout the summer of ’71 he slipped poison into his colleagues’ tea. ibid.
1962: On 26th April a funeral was held at Golders Green crematorium in north London. Mrs Molly Young had died suddenly, apparently from the after-effects of her recent accident. She had been found five days earlier writhing in agony in the garden of their home on the North Circular Road by her husband Fred when he returned from lunch. Fred Young had also found his 14-year-old son Graham watching his stepmother through the kitchen window, apparently too stunned with shock to raise the alarm. Great Crimes & Trials s3e8: Graham Young, BBC 1996
Fred Young also suffered severe cramps. ibid.
One of Graham’s schoolfriends, Chris Williams, had also suffered cramps his his legs and chest, and severe headaches. ibid.
By the time he was 13 Graham was an expert on poisons and their effects. ibid.
One of Graham Young’s science masters at school had long been troubled by the boy’s obsession with poison. ibid.
Graham finally broke down and admitted that he revelled in the power that carrying and using poison game him. ibid.
Young’s obsession had not been curtailed by his imprisonment. ibid.
YOUNG, TIA: Meet, Marry, Murder TV -
George Young, a devoted family man, in love with his wife Tia, married 22 years. But Tia was betraying him. It’s the motive for murder that’s been around for ever – a third party with access to weapons. An affair, weapons, and an insurance policy too. Meet, Marry, Murder s1e14, Netflix 2022
YOUNIS, ZAHID: Forensics: Catching the Killer TV - Killer at the Crime Scene TV - When Missing Turns to Murder TV -
Not just one body in a freezer but two [Henriett Szucs & Mihrican Mustafa] … Detectives now believed they had discovered the identity of the two women; to find just how they’d ended up in the freezer they needed to track down the flat’s tenant, Zahid Younis. Forensics: Catching the Killer s1e8: The Freezer Murders, Sky Crime 2022
‘Zahid Younis was looked on as a problem in his community – he shouts, he screams … lives a very transient lifestyle.’ Scene of the Crime s2e1, prosecutor, Channel 5 2022
‘He is very very violent, vindictive domestic abuser and he’s a registered sex offender.’ ibid.
Missing: Jan Mustafa, 37, missing from Canning Town, London, 6 May 2018. When Missing Turns to Murder s2e2, poster, Netflix 2023
They walked round the flat. It’s very very messy … A padlocked chest freezer. So the two officers there, one of them got the crowbar out of the van. Broke open the lock and lifted the lid of the freezer … ibid. rozzer
‘Arch deceiver’ jailed for life after killing two women and hiding their bodies in Custom House flat. ibid. newspaper article
Sentenced to life with a minimum term of 38 years. ibid. rozzer