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>> there were six victims in this case, and one was andrea herself because of mental illness. >> by the second trial, there had been research articles and talks and it became much more in the public vernacular, particularly postpartum depression. >> in june 2006, five years to the month after the tragedy, andrea yates' second trial commenced. the defense kept their arguments very specific. >> we focused on wrongfulness, mental health and wrongfulness and postpartum issues, wrongfulness more so in the first -- more so than in the first trial. we were learning. >> i think the defense felt that b...

Conservative. >> rusty had been serious about religion since college. he introduced andrea to the unconventional preachings of michael woroniecki. >> woroniecki, and his family traveled around the country or certainly around texas in a bus proselytizing i think mostly on college campuses. >> he told the female students that they were going to hell because they were studying and learning in a material world when they should be out there reproducing. >> the dilemma with his message as i understand it is that if you think you're saved, if you think you're a christian, if you think you're going to...

Outright dismissal of all charges arguing that a second trial would constitute double jeopardy. finally, in january 2005, some 3 1/2 years after the original conviction, the texas state supreme court issued an opinion. double jeopardy did not apply but andrea yates would be granted a new trial. >> tonight, she drowned her five children, was sentenced to spend the rest of her life in prison, but recently a texas appeals court overturned andrea yates' conviction. >> pending the new trial, the defense succeeded in having yates moved from the mountain view prison unit to rusk state hospital. >> ho...

So i looked to my right and down and there was yates. she was sitting on the couch. just sitting there. she never looked at me. i walked into the room, and i was expecting to find a man on the floor. a body. and i was looking around, looking around. saying, what? i see this little, tiny head. and it was looking right at me. and a little head was about maybe 10 or 15 feet from there at the edge of the bed. i said, what in the world? i thought it was a doll. and i walked over to that little tiny head, and i touched it right here, put my finger on it and i said what in the -- i picked up the blan...

Of capital murder as charged in the indictment. >> i was devastated. >> knowing how much andrea loved our children and how much they loved her and knowing that she would never have harmed them had she not been mentally ill, all right, i -- i view her, and i know it's hard for people to see this, but i view her as a victim. i don't view her as a criminal. >> in the punishment phase of the trial, the jury sided with the defense and rejected the death penalty. andrea yates was sentenced to life in prison. >> yeah. i never thought about losing. i went back in the back with andrea, and she said, wh...