Natural Born Killers

  

This news story is from the Las Vegas Review Journal and was printed on August 5, 2008

A couple threatened with possible exposure for pimping out a runaway teen are accused of trying to hide the crime by choking the young girl to death, according to a Las Vegas police report.

Gabriel Wayne Yates, 31, and Anne Marie Osburn, 21, then knocked the teen's teeth out, sliced off her tattoos, placed the maimed body in a hockey bag and dumped the victim in a shallow desert grave, police said in the report.

Police said they found the body of 17-year-old Nichole Elizabeth Yegge on Saturday afternoon after surreptitiously following Yates to the site. The report said the victim was involved in a love triangle with the suspects.

Homicide Sgt. Russell Shoemaker said the slaying victim's body was found by police Saturday night about 8 p.m. He said it was clear from the condition of the body that Yates and Osburn were trying to cover up their crime.

"Their intent, as far as we know based on the type of damage to her body, was to prevent her from being identified if found," Shoemaker said.

Yates and Osburn are accused of committing the slaying July 23, Shoemaker said.

Yates and Osburn, the parents of a newborn, were arrested Sunday at the Texas Station casino on charges of first-degree kidnapping and first-degree murder.

Gabriel Yates (please pray for him!)

Anne Osburn (please pray for her!)

The pair are being held without bail at the Clark County Detention Center. They are scheduled to appear in court Wednesday morning. Both Yates and Osburn denied Review-Journal requests for interviews Monday night.

Yegge was in the Clark County foster care system, but at the end of May was formally listed as a runaway, according to Christine Skorupski, a spokeswoman for the county's Department of Family Services. It's unclear how long Yegge was in foster care.

Police dispatchers received an early morning tip Wednesday from an acquaintance of Osburn's who lives in Huntsville, Ala.

"Her friends Gabriel Yates and 'Anne' were involved in the murder of a 17-year-old prostitute named 'Nikki,' whom Yates had been pimping out on Craig's List," the report says, outlining the woman's tip.

The acquaintance said the killing occurred three days prior to her call and was the result of a love triangle.

A craigslist.com ad for erotic services in Las Vegas included a contact number that is the same as the cell phone number police said Yegge was using. A photo in one of the ads with Yegge's number included a picture of Yates and the victim, police said.

Shoemaker said the victim is a suspected prostitute.

"We do believe there was a relationship between the three of them," he said, declining to describe the relationship further.

Police tracked down Yates and Osburn at their Koval Lane apartment the day the call was received. Detectives explained they were following up on a missing persons report. The two said that Yegge, who would have turned 18 this Friday, did not live in the apartment, but had recently visited.

Armed with a search warrant, detectives scoured the apartment and Yates' vehicle, a black BMW with the vanity plate "GO2GUY." Police found Yegge's property inside the home.

Using surveillance equipment, detectives began tracking the two on Friday.

"Yates was heard to say he worked in a slaughter house as a teenager skinning animals, blood did not bother him and he knew how to get rid of a body," the report says.

On Saturday, detectives followed Yates to a vacant desert area east of the Snow Mountain Golf Course just north of the turnoff to Kyle Canyon. Yates remained in his vehicle at the site, then drove away. Detectives searched the area and discovered Yegge's buried body.

Detectives conducting the surveillance also heard Osburn say Yates hit Yegge.

According to the report, "Nikki began to cry, told them she was leaving and was going to tell the police Osburn and Yates were pimping out an under-age girl. Nikki started for the door and Gabriel hit her again, knocking her to the floor. Anne then choked Nikki to death."

During interviews with homicide detectives after the arrests, Osburn declined to speak. Yates, however, did.

"Yates made the statement that the police had the body and had the right man," the report says.

Clark County School District spokesman Michael Rodriguez said Yegge was listed as a junior at Arbor View High School during the 2007-08 school year.

A neighbor who lives in the same apartment complex as Osburn and Yates believes she is one of the last people to see the 17-year-old alive. The neighbor did not want to be identified for fear of retribution.

The neighbor said the last time she saw Yegge was on July 21. The girl was sleeping inside Yates' BMW in the apartment parking lot. The neighbor knocked on the window after noticing the car's engine was running and asked the girl whether she was OK. Yegge cracked the window and told the neighbor she was fine.

"She did not look happy at all," the neighbor said of Yegge.

The neighbor said Yates came over the next morning to say thank you for the concern shown to Yegge.

"He just said the girl was working for him," the neighbor said. "He didn't use the word pimping, but close enough."

The neighbor said Yates worked for an escort service but didn't try to contact police. The neighbor did not know whether Yegge was a minor or a runaway.

The neighbor speculated that Yates is the mastermind behind Yegge's slaying. She said Yates also had a lot of control over Osburn, to the point where it was almost as if Osburn was brainwashed.

"She was in love with him," the neighbor said of Osburn. "Anything he told her to do she would listen. She was a good dog to him."

This article was posted in the Las Vegas Review Journal while I was still in New York City. I got a phone call from a very trusted media source....and when she told me the news, I cried. Tears flowing freely as I walked in front of Madison Square Garden...

Tears of despair...tears of sadness for her family!

Tears of what could I, Annie have done...to have possibly prevented this...this HUMAN TRAFFICKING???

I couldn't help it...I immediately went into "action" mode and got a hold of Nikki's grandmother...to console her. She was of course, at a total loss. She told me that her and Nikki were close...that Nikki wanted SO MUCH MORE out of life!

That Nikki NEVER intended to be a "prostitute".

And out of severe abuse she received from her family...she had ran away several times, to run from the pain. RUN from regret...RUN from people that she trusted.

Then finally running into the arms of someone whofinally told her what she wanted to hear...that she was "beautiful" and that she had great potential for a "better" life.  He told her that he would make her into a "famous model"...but...

Instead...she ran into someone who was a "natural born killer"

How could this happen? Why would this man and his girl murder a girl that was so innocent?!?!

Lack of love in Nikki's life...lack of a real father, lack of the right people to "influence" her, in a positive way.

BUT...there was no lack of the "worlds" type of love, to embrace her!!!

The world's type of love you say? Yes! Today's hip-hop...reality shows...MANY of them are teaching that MONEY, SEX, and PARTYING is the way to feel POWERFRUL, ACCEPTED AND LOVED...and it is "OKAY" and even ENCOURAGED, to let a man degrade you and your body...

It is no mystery, people...that this "killer" or "pimp" was greedy...and wanted to own Nikki...and like a "good dog", she obeyed him!

ALMOST....

Until she couldn't take it anymore...until she couldn't take the beatings anymore...until she couldn't take the verbal abuse anymore...until she told him "enough was enough" and she was LEAVING so she could be free!

What brings a man or woman to do such a thing to someone? And then eventually make them into...

NATURAL BORN KILLERS?

WANTED!!!

Natural Born Killers in Las Vegas...NEVADA!

I thought it a little ironic that they both resembled the characters to this movie...and Gabriel's background included killing a boy (by drowning) when he was twelve...

The justice system had obviously failed for the common people, because if Gabriel had been in jail for the original murder of this 12 year old boy years prior, could it be possible that Nikki would still be alive today?

I was told by Nikki's grandmother that she had never been arrested for prostitution, and had only been in trouble for "running away".

But I could not help feel the SORROW...the regret...of thinking:

"How could I have prevented her death?"

I asked her grandmother this...and her grandmother, although not a Christian, said something really profound to me. She told me that I was doing just what my job described. I called her to ask her if she needed any help...and this week I will be stopping by with a gift and a card. But that just doesn't seem like enough to me!

Nikki's grandmother did not get to go to the funeral...in fact, she was not allowed to. Trouble within the family has not allowed her that opportunity.  Nikki had been severely abused, and her grandmother knew too much...so most likely she had been rejected for her knowledge.

All and all...she was pretty decent and understanding about it...and even said, "let by gones be by gones."

Wow...and she is not even a Christian! Sometimes the world understands forgiveness much better than WE do! 

Still...I wanted to reach out to her to console her, to let her know her beautiful granddaughter, DID NOT DIE IN VAIN! 

Because of this tragic death...my passion has increased even more to help these underage girls!!! Over the next few months, Cindy and I are developing a new program just for the underage girls that will reach, rescue, and restore these beautiful ladies. And I want to honor Nikki through this program!!!

HUMAN TRAFFICKING IS REAL PEOPLE... AND THE BEST ACTION IS TO PREVENT IT!!!

 

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