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>> 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, and, in fact, in many respects i have never blamed her, but, yet,...

Until after we had luke, which was our fourth. >> after her fourth child was born, she actually struggled with the thought of killing her child, and she made a suicide attempt rather than risk harming her child. >> and there was one psychiatrist who saw her who told her and rusty, don't have anymore children. you need to stop. >> here we are on our way home. what does that say, boys? it says, "congratulations rusty and andrea. it's boy." that's so cute. giving us a little welcome home. yeah. >> just a year later, the yates were expecting their fifth child. [ mortazavi ] i'm definitely a perfec...

If you believe that andrea yates was mentally ill, then you say, okay, well, it wasn't her fault. she was sick. it must be rusty's fault. 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 death...

Their assessment. the community of doctors were horrified that we would prosecute someone who had a legitimate mental illness. that was a minority. >> andrea yates' actions were certainly incomprehensible, but did that mean she was insane? >> you can be mentally ill and the stashed under the law is 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 there is no legal definition that a juror is able to use the common everyday meaning of those words. >> whatever the legal argumen...

Rusty reported that the doctor's 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 ...