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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.

And a short-term job opportunity in florida. rusty opted not to be burdened by owning another house. >> going into an rv was kind of more of an experiment for us. and so what we did was we rented our house that we had here and bought a 38-foot travel trailer and pulled it to florida and lived at a campground in florida during the course of that assignment. >> at the time, andrea was again pregnant. she miscarried just after the move. in 1997, the yates returned to houston where their third son is born. in 1998, they trade in the rv for a renovated 350-square-foot bus, a bus they bought from mi...

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.

Based on information we got from 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 awe, 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 seco...

>> there were six victims in this case, and one was andrea herself because of mental illness. >> by the second trial, it 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 tha...