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Had methodically drowned her own kids one by one in the family tub. >> we didn't know what to do. we just looked at each other and there was this moment in time where all the training, you know, all the scenes that you have made, everything that you have been taught and learned and instinct went right out the window. >> police were there in my yard. i wanted to go inside. they wouldn't let me inside. had he told me what happened, and i just started just laying in the fwras just bawling. >> the husband showed up, and he started screaming andrea, you finally did it. andrea, you really did it. sh...

The murders, yates was deemed competent to stand trial. the prosecution planned to argue that andrea's motive was to get back at her husband for perceived wrongs like living in a bus, home schooling, 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 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 beg...

To think what turns people off is that he smiled a lot. >> he didn't show the kind of emotion that was expected. once he was kind of type cast 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 complicity in the murders. >> the district attorney's office received so many inquiries about whether he was also liable for the deaths of his children. if you talk to people on the streets, there are a lot of people that will express that to you. >> did i do everything i...

Psychotic episodes, they tend to get worse. >> after you drew the bath 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 yourse...

Hallucinations. >> on september 22nd, 2001, just three months and two days after the murders, yates was deemed competent to stand trial. 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 thi...