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Andrea Yates drowned her five children in 2001 in Houston, Texas. She was suffering the same postpartum psychosis that Lindsay Clancys attorneys say drove her to kill her three children.

Andrea Yates suffered from postpartum depression and psychosis

The longest passage in the 2002 notebook is from a Friday night in November when my high...

It's been more than 20 years since Andrea Yates drowned her five young children—Noah, 7; John, 5; Paul, 3; Luke, 2; and 6-month-old Mary—one by one in a bathtub,...

Return to, you know, disassociate from materialism. return to the basics. >> so theres no question that she was stressed. >> andrea yates life had begun to unravel. >> she seemed perfectly fine up until after we had luke, which was our fourth. >> after her fourth child was born, she actually struggled with the thought of killing her child and she made a suicide attempt rather than risk harming her child. >> and there was one psychiatrist who saw her who told her and rusty dont have any more chil...

Gunning for a reversal of the verdict. among the many points of argument was the questionable testimony given by park dietz, lead psychiatrist for the prosecution. >> theres never been an episode that has aired on "law & order" involving the part that park dietz testified about. we confronted him about that he said he was mistaken. he must have been in error. >> the appeals process would take months of meticulous preparation for multiple arguments but in the end everything hinged on the dietz te...

>> you know, if i were to challenge him and say, well, this medicine worked for her in 99, why arent we trying it now? im confident this will work, you know, and kind of looking back to his, you know, diploma on the wall. >> rusty flew his mother out to houston to help andrea with the kids. what she saw frightened her. >> her mother-in-law, rustys mother was in the house and said, andrea, why are you filling the bathtub at 4:00 in the afternoon? and andrea gave a vague answer, "i might have use ...

Common practice, you know? day shift. slow. guys killing time, helping each other out. >> eight minutes after dialing 911, andrea yates calls her husband rusty yates and tells him its time to come home. its not yet 10:00 a.m. >> i couldnt imagine what actually happened but im worried. andrea called me was firm tone, said i needed to come home, so i did. >> i moved in to the house and david approached me right at the hallway and i said, whens going on? he looked at me and said, its a homicide. so...

Permit. >> the yates family was very religious. >> from a religion standpoint, i would say were both pretty conservative. >> rusty had been serious about religion since college. she introduced andrea to the unconventional preachings of a man named michael woroniecki. >> woroniecki, his family traveled around the country or certainly around texas in a bus prosthetizing i think mostly on college campuses. >> the female student that is they were going to hell because they were studying and learning...

Until the following march when andreas father died. >> andreas such a wonderful, caring person. she cared deeply for her father. and felt a great deal of responsibility because she was the nurse in the family. come march 31st, shes taken by rusty to devereaux hospital. rustys concerned about her. andrea was diagnosed with major depressive disorder, postpartum onset. >> but at that time, hospitals werent educated about postpartum illness, psychiatrists werent educated about postpartum illness. >>...