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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 demeanor so incensed the houston community that some people believed he was complicit in the murders. >> the harris county district attorneys office received so many inquiries about whether he was also liable for the deaths of children and if you ta...

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 anymore children. you need to stop. >> here we are on our way home. what does that say, boys? it says, "congratulations rusty and andrea. its boy." thats so cute. giving us a little welcome home. yeah. >> just a year later, the yates were expecting their fifth child. e chevys are moving fast. ill take that malibu...

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 anymore children. you need to stop. >> here we are on our way home. what does that say, boys? it says, "congratulations rusty and andrea. its boy." giving us a little welcome home. yeah. >> just a year later, the yates were expecting their fifth child. (growls) (man) thats a good look for you. (woman) that was fu...

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 napp, 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 husband rusty yates and tells him its time to come home. its not yet 10:00 a.m. >> i couldnt imagine what had actually happened, but i was worried because andrea call...

Being a good daughter was very important to her. she went to nursing school and went to a very prestigious nursing school in texas. did very well in nursing school. and then married and started having children, and her goal was to be a wonderful mother. >> they met in 1989. they were both 25. four years later, they married. almost immediately, andrea was pregnant. >> i think the thing that surprised us was how fast that happened. she used to joke -- i mean she wouldnt like me to say this, but sh...

She went to nursing school and went to a very prestigious nursing school in texas. did very well in nursing school. and then married and started having children, and her goal was to be a wonderful mother. >> they met in 1989. they were both 25. four years later, they married. almost immediately, andrea was pregnant. >> i think the thing that surprised us was how fast that happened. she used to joke -- i mean she wouldnt like me to say this, but she called herself fertile myrtle. seemed like ever...

Now, im confident this will work and kind of looks 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 for it. that so concerned rustys mother that they then arranged for her to be hospitalized within 24 hours. >> when andrea was ...

>> whatever the legal arguments, the public ayre was also stoked by the way rusty yates was reacting. both to the murders and to the surrounding media circus. >> she shouldnt be punished and somehow, you know, im condoning her actions. >> he took it upon himself like it was a badge of honor. he was giving tv interviews and all kinds of stuff, which was macob, and at the funeral he actually had a slide show of his kids. >> the funeral took place one week after the murders and sealed the publics v...

The prosecution planned to argue that andreas motive was to get back at her husband for perceived wrongs, like living in a bus, homeschooling, and the inconveniences of a simpler lifestyle. the defense knew better than to bring rusty into the equation. >> had i gone after rusty, as people wanted me to do, then the jury could be told by the prosecutor in summation at the end she, in effect, by killing the kids she was getting back at rusty for the various things that he had done and would give he...

Grades were very important to her. being a good daughter was very important to her. she went to nursing school and went to a very prestigious nursing school in texas. did very well in nursing school. and then married and started having children, and her goal was to be a wonderful mother. >> they met in 1989. they were both 25. four years later, they married. almost immediately, andrea was pregnant. >> i think the thing that surprised us was how fast that happened. she used to joke -- i mean she ...