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There were pallets on the floor where the children slept. >> mrs. yates was overwhelmed. she was -- had begun home schooling, and she just couldn't handle it. >> you can imagine home schooling. >> "a," "b," "d," "e." >> she was changing diapers 24/7, washing diapers, not permitted to use pampers. had to use cloth diapers because they were more basic. they were the salt of the earth. return to, you know, disassociate from materialism. return to the basics. >> so there's no question that she was stressed. >> andrea yates' life had begun to unravel. >> she seemed perfectly fine up until after we ...

Conservative. >> rusty had been serious about religion since college. he introduced andrea to the unconventional preachings of michael woroniecki. >> woroniecki, and his family traveled around the country or certainly around texas in a bus proselytizing i think mostly on college campuses. >> he told the female students that they were going to hell because they were studying and learning in a material world when they should be out there reproducing. >> the dilemma with his message as i understand it is that if you think you're saved, if you think you're a christian, if you think you're going to...

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 mother could wipe out a family and becomes 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. a mother killing all five of her children is completely unimaginable. how can w...

Rusty reported that the doctors' comment was, andrea, you have to think happy thoughts. >> two days after that appointment on june 20th, 2001, andrea yates drowned her children one by one and then patiently waited to be arrested. >> when i saw her in the jail that first time, i would ask her questions, and she would answer it in nonsense. she heard the tv talking to her, and she was picking her scalp, which i saw her do later to learn that the belief was that the number 666 had been branded into her scalp. >> as irrational as andrea's symptoms sounded, at least one expert had a scientific term...

He introduced andrea to the unconventional preachings of michael woroniecki. >> woroniecki, and his family traveled around the country or certainly around texas in a bus proselytizing i think mostly on college campuses. >> he told the female students that they were going to hell because they were studying and learning in a material world when they should be out there reproducing. >> the dilemma with his message as i understand it is that if you think you're saved, if you think you're a christian, if you think you're going to heaven, then that proves you're going to hell because that's prideful...