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Kerville state hospital. there is no timetable for her release. >> i don't think that any judge will ever sign a paper that says andrea yates can be completely free from supervision. >> i don't think andrea will ever be free. she lives with the memory of her children. she misses them terribly. >> this didn't happen to andrea yates because she's an evil criminal, bad person that needs to be killed. this happened to andrea yates because she has a biological medical illness called psychosis. we don't understand it very well. we can't predict who is going to get it and why. >> i can forgive her, a...

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 said she became more 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. what she said to me was she didn't want to hurt her children. she wanted to hurt herself. >> andrea yates was hospitalized after both atte...

>> a devout christian dedicated to having as many children as god would allow, andrea yates 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 of 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. they told me what happened, and, you know, i just -- i remember laying in the grass and just bawlin...

Important to her. she went to nursing school, a 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, and they were both -- 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, bought she called herself fertile myrtle because it seemed like every -- yeah, it wasn't hard. >> they would give each child a biblical name. >> i know that rus...

Hospitalization, the yates had moved out of the bus and into a new house. in november 2000 they welcomed their fifth child and first girl, mary. >> this is our little girl. >> everything seemed fine until the following march when andrea's father died. >> andrea is such a wonderful, caring person, cared deeply for her father, and felt a great deal of responsibility because she was the nurse in the family. come march the 31st she was taken by hospital to the hospital. rusty is concerned about her. andrea was diagnosed with major depressive disorder. >> hospitals weren't educated about -- psychia...