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>> whatever the legal arguments, the public ire was also stoked by the way rusty yates was reacting, both to the murders and to the surrounding media circus. >> the woman here is not the woman that killed my children. she obviously wasnt herself. i think that will come out. im just completely surprised that people think that, well, because i defend andrea as being a wonderful mother that she shouldnt be punished, that somehow, you know, im condoning her actions. you know? her actions were almost...

Mrs. yates would have another opportunity to have her case heard. dr. dietz, in my view, made an honest mistake. >> the reversal, though a major victory, was only the start. the defense team pressed for an outright dismissal of all charges, arguing that a second trial would constitute double jeopardy. finally, in january 2005, some three and a half years after the original conviction, the texas state supreme court issued an opinion. double jeopardy did not apply, but andrea yates would be grante...

Heaven. you are sort of pinned in to a corner in that way of thinking. >> by 1996, the yates had two children, noah and john. and a short-term job opportunity in florida, rusty opted not to be burdened by owning another house. >> going in to an rv was kind of more of an experiment for us. and so what we did was we rented our house that we had here and bought a 38-foot travel trailer and pulled it to florida and lived at a campground in florida during the course of that assignment. >> at the time...

Rusty yates. >> i think people want to assign blame. how did this happen? why did this happen? whos at fault? and if you believe that andrea yates was mentally ill, then you say, okay, well it wasnt her fault, she was sick. it must be rustys fault. i think what turns people off is that he smiled a lot. >> he didnt show the kind of emotion that was expected. and once he was kind of typecast as not showing enough emotion no matter how much he showed after that, thats how he was viewed. >> rustys d...

>> its a tuesday morning, just after 9:00. yates has just fed the kids. then, she draws the bath. >> whats the problem? >> um. >> is someone burglarizing your house? i mean what is it? >> the dispatcher assigned me that particular call for service being that it was in my zone of responsibility. another unit, david knapp, he checked by with me, which is common practice, you know? day shift. slow. guys killing time, helping each other out. >> eight minutes after dialing 911, andrea yates calls her...

Think youre going to heaven, then that proves youre going to hell because thats prideful and only god knows whos going to heaven. you are sort of pinned in to a corner in that way of thinking. >> by 1996, the yates had two children, noah and john. and a short-term job opportunity in florida, rusty opted not to be burdened by owning another house. >> going in to an rv was kind of more of an experiment for us. and so what we did was we rented our house that we had here and bought a 38-foot travel ...

Madness. >> she said satan was telling her this and if youre a religious person and satan is telling you to do something, you start out with the assumption that its wrong, this its bad conduct. so starting from that simple proposition, we knew that she knew that it was wrong and shed expressed that she knew it was wrong. >> so dr. dietz testified that mrs. yates knew it was wrong, not just against the law, but against society and against god. thats pretty powerful testimony. >> dietz took it one...

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 children. you need to stop. >> here we are on our way home. what does that say, boys? congratulations, rusty...

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Michael woroniecki. baby number four arrives a few months later. >> i went on the bus. it was a bus. it was small. and there was a trap door that lifted up and youd look down in the luggage compartment and theres pallets on the floor where the children slept. >> mrs. yates was overwhelmed. she was -- had begun home schooling and she just couldnt handle it. >> you can imagine home schooling. >> a, b, d, e. >> she was changing diapers 24/7. washing diapers. not permitted to use pampers. had to use...