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Very harsh in their assessment. the community of psychiatric workers, doctors were horrified that we would prosecute someone who had a legitimate mental illness, but that was a minority. >> andrea yates' actions were certainly incomprehensible. but did that mean she was insane? >> you can be mentally ill and the standard under the law is that if you know right from wrong, that's not a medical standard. that's a legal standard. >> there's no legal definition for what's right or wrong, and the law tells us that if there's no legal definition, then a juror is able to use the common, everyday mean...

She obviously wasn't herself. and i think that will come out. ou know, i'm just completely surprised that people think that, well, because i defend andrea as being a wonderful mother, that she shouldn't be punished, that somehow, you know, i'm condoning her actions, you know? her actions were almost indescribably devastating to me and my family. >> he took it upon himself like it was some kind of badge of honor and on tv and giving interviews and all kinds of stuff which is macabre and then at the funeral he actually had a slide show of his kids. >> the funeral took place one week after the mu...

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...

Nobody said, you know, the risk is with postpartum psychosis that the children are in danger. >> i personally did not see rusty as such a bad guy. i think he cared deeply for his wife. he cared deeply for his children. >> in the end, the rusty yates controversy was simply a sideshow. his wife was the main event, and the state was going to try the case to the fullest extent of the law seeking nothing less than the death penalty. >> she's going to say that noah got his head up a couple of times and that she was able to push him down and control him and force him under that water until he lost co...

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...