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Kerville state hospital. there is no timetable for her release. >> i dont think that any judge will ever sign a paper that says andrea yates can be completely free from supervision. >> i dont think andrea will ever be free. she lives with the memory of her children. she misses them terribly. >> this didnt happen to andrea yates because shes an evil criminal, bad person that needs to be killed. this happened to andrea yates because she has a biological medical illness called psychosis. we dont un...

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 said she became more secretive with each pregnancy. the crisis point came in 1999 after the birth of her fourth child. >> there were two suicide attempts in these pregnancies. what she said to me was she didnt want...

>> a devout christian dedicated to having as many children as god would allow, andrea yates 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 of 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. t...

Important to her. she went to nursing school, a 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, and they were both -- 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, bought she called herself fertile myrtle because it seemed li...

Hospitalization, the yates had moved out of the bus and into a new house. in november 2000 they welcomed their fifth child and first girl, mary. >> this is our little girl. >> everything seemed fine until the following march when andreas father died. >> andrea is such a wonderful, caring person, cared deeply for her father, and felt a great deal of responsibility because she was the nurse in the family. come march the 31st she was taken by hospital to the hospital. rusty is concerned about her. ...

>> i dont think that any judge will ever sign a paper that says andrea yates can be completely free from supervision. >> i dont think andrea will ever be free. she lives with the memory of her children. she misses them terribly. >> this didnt happen to andrea yates because shes an evil criminal, bad person that needs to be killed. this happened to andrea yates because she has a biological medical illness called psychosis. we dont understand it very well. we cant predict who is going to get it an...

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 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. >> jus...

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. 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 distr...

Their assessment. the community of doctors were horrified that we would prosecute someone who had a legitimate mental illness. that was a minority. >> andrea yates actions were certainly incomprehensible, but did that mean she was insane? >> you can be mentally ill and the stashed under the law is if you know right from wrong, thats not a medical standard. thats a legal standard. >> theres no legal definition for whats right or wrong, and the law tells us that there is no legal definition that a...

Rusty reported that the doctors comment was andrea, you have to think happy thoughts. >> two days after that 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 been branded into h...