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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 yourself. >> andrea yates was hospitalized after both attempts. the second ti...

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 control of his body. j.d. power an...

I think what turns people off is that he smiled a lot. >> he didn't show the kind of emotion that was expected. and once he was kind of typecast as not showing enough emotion, no matter how much he showed after that, that's how he was viewed. >> rusty's demeanor so incensed the houston community that some people believed he was complicit in the murders. >> the harris county district attorney's office received so many inquiries about whether he was also liable for the deaths of children and if you talk to people on the street, there were a lot of people who would express that idea to you. >> di...

Back at her husband for perceived wrongs like living in a bus, homeschooling and the inconveniences of a simpler life style. the defense knew better than to bring rusty into the equation. >> had i gone after rusty, as people wanted me to do, then the jury could be told by the prosecutor in summation or at the end, she, in effect, by killing the kids, she was getting back at rusty for the various things that he had done and would give her an ulterior motive. >> the trial began in february 2002. both sides brought in pre-eminent psychiatrists to testify. dr. phillip resnick led for the defense. ...

The prosecution planned to argue that andrea's motive was to get back at her husband for perceived wrongs like living in a bus, homeschooling and the inconveniences of a simpler life style. the defense knew better than to bring rusty into the equation. >> had i gone after rusty, as people wanted me to do, then the jury could be told by the prosecutor in summation or at the end, she, in effect, by killing the kids, she was getting back at rusty for the various things that he had done and would give her an ulterior motive. >> the trial began in february 2002. both sides brought in pre-eminent ps...