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>> are you having a disturbance? are you ill or what? >> yes, i'm ill. >> you need an ambulance? >> no. i need a police officer. >> the woman on the phone is andrea yates. she is living the american dream, a house in the suburbs, an rv in the backyard. >> what's the problem? >> um. i just need them to come. >> they all seemed so happy, five healthy children, a loving mother and a successful dad who worked for nasa. >> is your husband there? >> no. >> what's the problem? >> i need them to come. >> it's a tuesday morning just after 9:00. yates has just fed the kids,

Victory, was only the start. the defense team pressed for an 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 fro...

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 pregnancies, and what she said to me was she didn't want to hurt her children. she wanted to hurt yourse...

Kids wherever she was, and i says, what does that solve? that doesn't do anything for me and certainly doesn't do anything for that woman, so i didn't do that. i wish they had a third trial. >> i find her quite sympathetic and not only do i think that she's not criminally responsible, but the fact that she has to live with what she's done and live childless and so forth and that's the tragedy and it's not right. >> in the eyes of the state, andrea yates is now simply a patient. she is no longer considered a criminal. only andrea knows if she can ever forgive herself for her actions.

>> 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 didn't 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 wouldn't let me inside. they told me what happened, and, you know, i just -- i remember laying in the grass and just bawlin...