Anne Osburn & Gabriel Yates Were Pimpin’
August 5, 2008 by impqueen
L to R: Anne Osburn, Gabriel Yates, and Nichole Yegge
Las Vegas, NV - Nichole Elizabeth Yegge, called “Nikki”, would have turned 18 on AugustAugust reviews
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. But she won’t have a birthday party or a night out with friends this weekend, because she’s dead. Nichole’s body was found in a shallow grave in the desert outside Las Vegas last week, her teeth knocked out, her tattoos sliced off. On Sunday, Anne Osburn, 21, and Gabriel Yates, 31, were arrested for Nichole’s kidnapping and murder.
Nichole’s life wasn’t all sunshine and roses in any event. At just 17, she was being pimped out by Yates and Osburn via CraigslistCraigslist ads and little black book contacts. Her relationship with her charismatic pimp and his pretty young wife was rocky. Anne Osburn had just given birth on July 6 to Gabriel Yates’ baby daughter, and there were undercurrents of jealousy in the apartment where Nichole was living with the pair. Police say that both Nichole and Anne were involved in romantic relationships with Yates.
Nichole’s own family had reported her missing in June from her Henderson home. Her last Myspace update was on June 11, and it appears that before that time her life had been more normal. Teen angst, no doubt, and a fantasy of independence likely played into her decision to run away. Nichole was a Juggalette, an Insane Clown Posse devotee who painted her face in the Dark Carnival style made popular by the band.  She wanted to be free, I’m sure, of parental restrictions. Whether she knew Osburn and Yates before she ran away is unclear. It’s certain that she had no clue what life on the run with the couple would bring.
On July 23, tensions in the pimpin’ apartment took a violent turn. During an argument, Yates hit Nichole, and she started to cry, but then got mad. Nichole told the couple that she was going to turn them in to the police for “pimping out an underage girl”. As she started for the door, Yates hit Nichole again and knocked her down. And then Anne Osburn choked the girl to death.
The couple then broke out all Nichole’s teeth, sliced off her tattoos, and shoved her body into a hockey bag. They took Nichole in her makeshift body bag to the desert, where Yates buried the runaway teenager in a shallow grave. Afterward, they took the teeth and tattooed skin pieces to a lake for disposal. Just like that, Nichole Elizabeth Yegge was gone.
A tip from a friend of the couple’s was called in on July 28, and FBI investigators from as far away as Alabama spoke with people who knew Yates and Osburn. On Saturday, August 2, police followed Yates into the desert and found Nichole’s gravesite. The next day, Gabriel Yates and Anne Osburn were arrested.
Gabriel Wayne Yates and Anne Marie Osburn are each being held without bond at the Clark County Detention Center. They are each charged with first-degree kidnapping and first-degree murder, and are scheduled to appear in court for arraignment on Wednesday morning. No word on where their baby daughter is now. Here’s hoping her life turns out better than Nichole Yegge’s.
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9:02 am on August 5th, 2008
What confuses me is that victims almost always tell their attackers “I’m gonna turn you in!” and then get killed for their troubles.. Do they think these bad people are just going to let them walk off and call the police?? *note to potential victims.. don’t talk about it– just do it..
Before I get flamed.. it’s just an observation..
I’m thankful that Nicole’s family will at least have closure.
And that the victim’s baby will hopefully get a chance at a life better than her dna contributors would have given her..
9:22 am on August 5th, 2008
Good point. I thought about that when I was writing. And this was a rebellious teenager who was in a sexual relationship with the male in the house. She may have thought she had some kind of power in that equation. She was really, really wrong.
9:23 am on August 5th, 2008
I wonder how long it will be before Anne Osburn pleads not guilty due to abuse by Yates. She’ll say he made her strangle Nichole Yegge and she was too scared not to do as he told her.
Isn’t that how this story almost always goes?
9:47 am on August 5th, 2008
Probably. Although the cops may not be sympathetic if there wasn’t physical evidence of abuse. Besides, Yegge probably isn’t the first girl he/they have pimped out.
Meanwhile…what’s the point in knocking out her teeth and slicing off her tattoos if you’re just going to lead the police right to the body anyway? Waste of time, on his part. Or hers. There’s a question for them. LOL. Whose idea was that one?
9:47 am on August 5th, 2008
One of the neighbors is already setting that up for Anne in the media, telling a press reporter that Anne was a “good little dog” for Gabriel Yates. But i think Anne was so jealous that she had no problem strangling Nikki.
10:08 am on August 5th, 2008
If she’d just headed out the door to do some tricks and went instead to the police station, she’d be alive. But she had to have her moment of triumph and it got her killed. This is what I see in the mouthy teens who come on DD to straighten us out. Their little act of power and anger works well among people who love them or are paid to be polite to them, but how will it work with people who don’t give a shit if they live or die? Guess this poor young woman found out once and for all.
10:26 am on August 5th, 2008
Anne Osburn should be in the Most Beautiful Mugshot Contest.
Damn. She PROVES that beauty is only skin deep. She looks like a live version of those large-eyed Japanese animation characters.
10:33 am on August 5th, 2008
OK, been reading the site for a while, but i had to sign up, finally… i am LOVING his mugshot. My first thought was, OOOOH, so the pimp is practicing for when HE gets pimped in prison?
10:40 am on August 5th, 2008
Wow, nice mugshot, Yates. He looks like he’s in the middle of a meth yawn.
10:43 am on August 5th, 2008
Getting rid of the teeth and cutting off the tattoos? Haven’t they heard of DNA and fingerprints? Even if she had never been printed, if LE was clued in enough to look at dental records, they would know enough to look at DNA. The fact the tats were missing would also be a big clue.
10:46 am on August 5th, 2008
Welcome, Lady — what a great first post! He does look like that. All he has to do now is to hold the expression while bending over and he’s set for jail!
12:06 pm on August 5th, 2008
Ok I have been a DD addict for quite sometime and I decided that it was finally time to show myself. So HI everyone thanxs for the years of entertainment and wisdom.
Lady that was an awesome first post cause I lost my coffee all over my puter screen!!!!
Anyone else think the fearsome two-some have a 21st century Manson look going on??????
12:14 pm on August 5th, 2008
He looks a little like Owen Wilson.
12:52 pm on August 5th, 2008
What confuses me is that victims almost always tell their attackers “I’m gonna turn you in!†and then get killed for their troubles.. Do they think these bad people are just going to let them walk off and call the police??
ESPECIALLY after just being hit. You’d think this girl would realize that they had it in them to do worse.
Incidentally, I had a friend once who was dating a married couple. She had relations with both of them, but, when the wife got pregnant, she became less interested in sex. As a result, my friend was primarily focused on the husband, although she made herself available to the wife, but the jealousy building up in the wife was clear. My friend broke it off shortly after the jealousy became obvious. I can only imagine how jealous the wife would have been if they had carried on for the entirety of the pregnancy.
Based on the shot above, I don’t buy for a second that she was anyone’s “good little dog” or whatever.
7:03 pm on August 5th, 2008
Absolutely! It’s the first thing I thought when I saw her pic….”Manson Girl!”
Hi, first time poster here! Just found this site yesterday (trying to keep up on the Caylee Marie Anthony story) and quickly became hooked.
10:48 pm on August 5th, 2008
Whew – He is just SCREAMIN’ to be someones bitch (showin’ his “O” face already). WTF – I thought pimps wore leopard print pants and lots of bling. Either that or some sort of mafia dude with slicked back hair and lots of bling. This guy doesn’t fit either of those. He just looks like some drugged out, asshole, womanizer. Well, whatever it is – He looks like he is prepared to meet Thunderdick in the Las Vegas jail. Bend over boy!! Here comes THUNDERDICK!
11:12 pm on August 5th, 2008
THUNDERDICK! That’s hilarious.
A Bubbaku
Greet Thunderdicks! Oh!
The pimp is being pumped! Oh!
In and out we go!
11:18 pm on August 5th, 2008
Love it! I will have to print it and pin it up at work.
11:26 pm on August 5th, 2008
Thank you (blushes modestly), but I couldn’t have done it without the inspiring word, THUNDERDICK!
11:38 pm on August 5th, 2008
Awwwww.
7:04 am on August 6th, 2008
Yeah, she does! That’s just plain freaky.
7:33 am on August 6th, 2008
*applauds*
That was pretty!
7:45 am on August 6th, 2008
I must thank you all for the laughs I got out of your comments this morning. I am sitting in my office this morning watching this guy walk back and forth in the parking lot barking as he walks. I can tell it’s gonna be one of those days.
5:36 am on August 7th, 2008
Welcome Wildheart! Glad you decided to look deeper than the Caylee circus goin on
9:47 am on August 7th, 2008
Yates was acquitted of murder in 1996:
“For Yates, the murder arrest follows a memorable murder acquittal in 1996, when he was cleared of beating and drowning 13-year-old Nicholas Bishop in a gang initiation ritual.
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/police_10018___article.html/murder_yates.html
12:07 pm on August 19th, 2008
Poor dead girl, she probably thought these a-holes actually cared about her…she was probably hoping they would respond with something like, “no, don’t go, we love you!” She probably didn’t intend to turn them in, or she would have already done it.
12:43 pm on September 14th, 2008
Nichole was a beautiful person. I knew her back in middle school and then didn’t see her again till sophomore of high school and that was it…the time I knew her showed she was a caring and sweet person, she could always make me laugh. I know she had a hard time meeting ends and I guess she was naive at the time and would take anyones help. I guess thats what she saw in these mo’ fo’s. I miss her terribly and it sucks to just have found this out like a week ago. She didn’t deserve this at all. She was going on to a bigger and better life when she turned 18 and they took that away from her! I hope those bastards rot in jail and the next life. R.I.P Nichole!!
12:56 pm on September 14th, 2008
Poetic8tragedy, that’s a really sad story. People get used to thinking they can survive anything, and I’m sure she thought she was a strong young woman who could handle anything life threw her way. I’m sorry her life ended so soon. Do you know anything about how the case is progressing? These people are monsters, especially Yates. I cannot believe how they brutalized her body–the teeth, the tattoos. Just no respect at all for her, not when she was living, not when she was dead. I hope the prosecutors will able to make the case that their respect for the sovereignty of others is encapulated perfectly in thaat postmortem brutality.
10:59 pm on May 21st, 2009
I don’t feel sorry for anne at all! I grew up with her and I know what kind of person she really is. There is a reason I and my other friends stopped hanging out with her. She is a lying, two-faced, selfish slut. She ruined many lives of people I knew and I like to believe that karma has finally caught up with her. I am so sorry for Nichole and her family and friends. But when it comes to anne she deserves everything she gets, she is in no way innocent. I hope they both fry.
12:14 pm on September 10th, 2009
I love Annie so much she is a very good friend of mine.. i honestly cant say that i beleive this report is all true.. I’ve known Annie for many years we were very close I don’t see her doing this!!! Now Gabe on the other had i only met him once i hear he’s killed before. Who’s to say he didnt threaten Annie?!
12:22 pm on September 10th, 2009
SAangel
who tha fuck are u .. obviously U dont know shit!!! Annie was a Good person.. dont be mad if she fucked ur bf stupid BITCH
12:56 pm on September 10th, 2009
LMAO. Good people don’t pimp out underage girls and (if what you say is true) stand by while someone abuses and kills them, then knocks out their teeth and slices their tattoos off. I love how you claim to know Anne sooo well, but then state that you only met her boyfriend once. Yeah, y’all sound real right.
And, “dont be mad if she fucked ur bf stupid BITCH”? Really? What are you, 12?!? You wouldn’t recognize a good person if she offered you her place in the WIC line, you dumb little twat.
2:19 pm on September 10th, 2009
Okay, now my stomach hurts from trying to contain my laughter (I’m at work).
Thanks Athena, it’s been a rough couple of days, and I needed that.
11:03 pm on September 16th, 2009
ok.. i talked to annie just before all this crap happened and she was ready to leave him. let me give everyone an insight .. annie had a ticket to go home.. she conveniently went into labor early. baby is born early.. she has no one exept him until the baby can be brought home.. nichole gets thrown out on her ass ..(its prolly why she was caught sleeping in that car)… all this fighting.. no one .. she just has to go along with him.. i dont believe she had anything to do with it.. ive known the girl for many yrs. she dont some bad things.. shes not an angel.. but not a killer.. she had a baby to think about.. and her children mean everything.. as for gabriel .. he was the guy next store .. with the most sweet kids.. big house.. owned his own business.. he foiled us all…i knew them both.. and annie was stuck in that horrible life unable to get out with her child at that moment…
11:18 pm on September 16th, 2009
OMG Athena, that made me laugh out loud and now my stomach hurts!
6:56 am on September 17th, 2009
you lose touch with ur friend.. was to seconds away from saying come stay with me.. and you never hear from them again until a year later.. when u find out shes possibly killed the girl her old man was cheating on her with. when she was going to leave him in the first place.. something just doesnt fit.
4:26 pm on October 15th, 2009
Ok lilmiss Who the fuck am i? A person who has know annie since she was 12 how long have you known her? i have to say not for very long if you truly think she is a good person, or your just plain stupid. That bitch put a good man in jail b/c she claimed he raped her when she pursued him for years. She told me she would do what ever it took to get him in bed. Oh and she told me herself, at the age of 14, that she had slept with over 100 guys and was proud of it. I know for a fact that she got several of her friends to prostitute them selves along with her, and one of those girls was the younger sister of the guy she put in jail. And there is so much more i could say. And before u try to say its not true I just want to say i know all this for a fact I grew up with the bitch and this is why i stopped hanging out with her. My entire family tried to worn me and my friends that she was trouble and we didnt need to hang out with her, I just wish i would have listend to them sooner. So please stop defending a monster.
4:31 pm on October 15th, 2009
Oh and i would also like to point out that you felt no sympathy for Nichole or Nichole’s family just for annie. shows what kind off person you are. Who really matters in all this?
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