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>> it was a terrible personal tragedy that became a white hot media spectacle. >> she didn't want them to go to hell. >> captivating and horrifying viewers from coast to coast. >> did he know that his wife would be a danger to those five children? >> she did not show remorse. she did not show regret. she believed that she had arranged for her children to go to heaven. >> the murder case that shocked the nation and cast a harsh, new light on the very nature of motherhood. >> i view her as a victim. i don't view her as a criminal. >> the state of texas versus andrea yates, next.

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 it's time to come home. it's not yet 10:00 a.m. >> i couldn't imagine what had actually happened, but i was worried because andrea called me with a firm tone and said i needed to come home and so i did. >> i moved into the house, an...

The doctor as we'd successfully treated it in '99. if it happened again, we knew how to treat it. thinking ahead, we were thinking, if it happens at all, it will be a relatively short spell, she'll be down at worst for a while. >> for the yates, adding to their family outweighed the risks. to ensure a healthy pregnancy, andrea yates went off all her medication. >> if you're on medication and you come on and off of it, a lot we think that it does something to your brain, and then if you get sick, you often get sicker, and then it becomes harder to treat the second, third, fourth time. >> follow...

Series "law & order." on several points, the experts agreed. >> we both agreed that she had a severe mental disease when she drowned her children. we both agreed she believed she was doing what was in the best interest of the children, and we both agreed she knew what she was doing against the law. where we differed was despite what was against the law, she believes she was doing what was right for her children. >> the prosecution contended there was more method than madness. >> she said satan was telling her this, and if you're a religious person and satan is telling you to do something, you ...

And mental illness. >> 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...