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>> this is our little girl that was born today. >> everything seemed fine until the following march when andreas father died. >> andrea is 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 she is taken by rusty to devereaux hospital. rustys concerned about her. andrea was diagnosed with major depressive disorder, postpartum onset. >> at that time, hospitals werent educated about postp...

In florida. rusty opted not to be burdened by owning another house. >> going into an rv more of an experiment for us. we rented our house that we had here, and we bought a 38 foot trailer and pulled it to florida and lived in a campground in florida during the course of that assignment. >> at the time andrea was again pregnant. she miscarried just after the move. in 1997 the yates returned to houston where their third son is born. in 1998 they trade in the rv for a renovated 350 square foot bus,...

I mean, she was sick. we went to the doctor. you know, we followed the doctors orders. >> no one ever said to him, you know, your children might die because of your wifes illness. nobody said, you know, the risk is with postpartum psychosis that the children are in danger. >> i personally did not see rusty as such a bad guy. i think he cared deeply for his wife. he cared deeply for his children. >> in the end the rusty yates controversy was simply a side show. his wife was the main event. the st...

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 napp, he checked by with me, which is common practice, you know, day shift, its 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 ...

>> shes not responding. rusty reported that the doctors comment was, andrea, think happy thoughts. >> two days after that will appointment on june 20th, 2001, andrea yates drowned her children one by one and then patiently waited to be arrested. >> when i saw her in the jail that first time i would ask her questions, and she would answer it in nonsense. she heard the tv talking to her, and she was picking her scalp, which i saw her do. later to learn that the belief was that the number 666 had b...

Had methodically drowned her own kids one by one in the family tub. >> we didnt know what to do. we just looked at each other and there was this moment in time where all the training, you know, all the scenes that you have made, everything that you have been taught and learned and instinct went right out the window. >> police were there in my yard. i wanted to go inside. they wouldnt let me inside. had he told me what happened, and i just started just laying in the fwras just bawling. >> the hus...

The murders, yates was deemed competent to stand trial. the prosecution planned to argue that andreas motive was to get back at her husband for perceived wrongs like living in a bus, home schooling, 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 or at the end, she, in effect, by killing the kids, she was getting back at ru...

To think what turns people off is that he smiled a lot. >> he didnt show the kind of emotion that was expected. once he was kind of type cast 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 complicity in the murders. >> the district attorneys office received so many inquiries about whether he was also liable for the deaths of his children. if you talk to people o...

Psychotic episodes, they tend to get worse. >> after you drew the bath water, what was your intent? what were you about to do? >> drown my children. >> andrea yates never denied that she killed her children, but was she cold-blooded or desperately ill? by all accounts, she was a devoted mother, but her defense doctors say she became more desperate and secretive with each pregnancy. the crisis point came in 1999 after the birth of her fourth child. >> there were two suicide attempts in these preg...

Hallucinations. >> on september 22nd, 2001, just three months and two days after the murders, yates was deemed competent to stand trial. 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 summati...