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Hallway, and i said, what's going on? he looked at me and said, it's a homicide. 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 ...

Then she draws the bath. >> what's 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, it's 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 i'm like ...

But everybody was affected. and anyone that says they weren't, they're not telling the truth. >> the stories spread like wildfire. reporters and first responders swarm the area. frank stumpo was assigned to take andrea yates to jail. >> the news media were there en masse. they were there, 50, 60, 70 people. a woman could wipe out five of her kids, wipe out a family and become a star. and that's what she was. and i told her that. i said, now you're a celebrity. and i brought her into the homicide division, brought her upstairs, and that was it. >> a mother killing her own child is unthinkable. ...

The murders, yates was deemed competent to stand trial. the prosecution planned to argue that andrea's 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 rusty for the various things that he had done and would give her an ulterior motive. >> the trial beg...

Among the many points of argument was the questionable testimony given by park dietz, lead psychiatrist for the prosecution. >> there's never been an episode that has aired on "law & order" involving the topic that park dietz testified about. we confronted park dietz about that, and he said he was mistaken. he must have been in vera. >> the appeals process would take months of meticulous preparation for multiple arguments, but in the end everything hinged on the dietz testimony. >> we had 19 points of error, and only one point was ever addressed, and that was point number one, and that was his...