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She went to nursing school and went to a very prestigious nursing school in texas. did very well in nursing school. and then married and started having children, and her goal was to be a wonderful mother. >> they met in 1989. they were both 25. four years later, they married. almost immediately, andrea was pregnant. >> i think the thing that surprised us was how fast that happened. she used to joke -- i mean she wouldn't like me to say this, but she called herself fertile myrtle. seemed like every -- yeah. it wasn't hard. >> they would give each child a biblical name. >> i know that rusty knew...

Now, i'm confident this will work and kind of looks back to his, you know, diploma on the wall. >> rusty flew his mother out to houston to help andrea with the kids. what she saw frightened her. >> her mother-in-law, rusty's mother, was in the house and said, andrea, why are you filling the bathtub at 4:00 in the afternoon, and andrea gave a vague answer, i might have use for it. that so concerned rusty's mother that they then arranged for her to be hospitalized within 24 hours. >> when andrea was sent home from devereaux the second time, she was just as disoriented as before. rusty took her b...

>> whatever the legal arguments, the public ayre was also stoked by the way rusty yates was reacting. both to the murders and to the surrounding media circus. >> she shouldn't be punished and somehow, you know, i'm condoning her actions. >> he took it upon himself like it was a badge of honor. he was giving tv interviews and all kinds of stuff, which was macob, and at the funeral he actually had a slide show of his kids. >> the funeral took place one week after the murders and sealed the public's view of rusty yates. >> i think people want to assign blame. how did this happen? why did this hap...

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 lifestyle. 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 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 at trr motive. >> the trial began in february 2002. both sides brought in preeminent psychiatr...

Grades were very important to her. being a good daughter was very important to her. she went to nursing school and went to a very prestigious nursing school in texas. did very well in nursing school. and then married and started having children, and her goal was to be a wonderful mother. >> they met in 1989. they were both 25. four years later, they married. almost immediately, andrea was pregnant. >> i think the thing that surprised us was how fast that happened. she used to joke -- i mean she wouldn't like me to say this, but she called herself fertile myrtle. that's what she'd say. seemed l...