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Was inevitable. almost overnight andrea yates became a household name and a condition called postpartum psychosis a hotly contested topic. >> it is not the same as the baby blues, which are very common. postpartum psychosis is about 1 case in 1,000 births. often a woman is very psychotic, hallucinations, delusions, confused, usually so severe, it requires hospitalization. >> on june 20th, 2001, andrea yates called police to her home, showed them the bodies of her drowned children. noah, 7, john, 5. paul, 3. luke, 2 and mary, 6 months. you know, i had no idea what was going on. i mean, i didn't...

But an international case. >> given the circumstances, it was inevitable. almost overnight andrea yates became a household name and a condition called postpartum psychosis a hotly contested topic. >> it is not the same as the baby blues, which are very common. postpartum psychosis is about 1 case in 1,000 births. often a woman is very psychotic, hallucinations, delusions, confused, usually so severe, it requires hospitalization. >> on june 20th, 2001, andrea yates called police to her home, showed them the bodies of her drowned children. noah, 7, john, 5. paul, 3. luke, 2 and mary, 6 months. y...

And now the jury must decide. did yates know right from wrong when she drowned her five children in the family bathtub? >> all rise for the jury. the court has been advised the jury has reached a verdict. >> we, the jury, find the defendant, andrea p. yates, not guilty by reason of insanity. >> juror number 15. >> yes. >> injure. number 37. >> yes. >> juror number 52. >> yes. >> it had been five years, one month and six days since the tragedy. >> we're all, you know, thrilled with the verdict. you know, last time the judge said, you know, find the defendant guilty, and we just thought they lef...

With odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor. so all you notice is relief. aspercreme. it's always an unthinkable act. psychiatrists have a name for it. filicide when a parent kills a child. >> almost from the beginning, the state of texas was determined to charge andrea yates with capital murder. the defense would enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. >> in my almost 16 years on the bench, the andrea yates case was the only one where that defense was actually asserted and litigated. >> it's a small number of persons who are found excused

>> 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 michael woroniecki. baby number four arrives a few months later. >> i went on the bus. it was a bus. it...