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Nichole Yegge's Killers Mutilated Her Body to Conceal Her Identity

By David Lohr

Nichole Elizabeth Yegge, 17, was buried in a shallow grave in the Mojave Desert just outside Las Vegas in late July, less than a month before her eighteenth birthday, allegedly by a man and a young woman who feared being exposed for purportedly pimping out the runaway underage teenager who suffered bipolar disorder.  The couple, Anne Osburn, 21, and Gabriel Yates, 31, were arrested last month for the teen's brutal murder.  According to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police reports, the cops surreptitiously followed Yates when he returned to Yegge's desert gravesite after police received an early morning tipoff on July 28, 2008 from an acquaintance of Osburn's who resides in another state.The tipster's friends, Gabriel Yates and Anne, were involved in the murder of a 17-year-old prostitute named 'Nikki,' whom Yates had allegedly been pimping out on Craig's List, according to the police report about the tipoff...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on September 16, 2008 (boomark / email).