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Gunning for a reversal of the verdict. among the many points of argument was the questionable testimony given by park dietz, lead psychiatrist for the prosecution. >> there's never been an episode that has aired on "law & order" involving the part that park dietz testified about. we confronted him about that he said he was mistaken. he must have been in error. >> the appeals process would take months of meticulous preparation for multiple arguments but in the end everything hinged on the dietz testimony. >> we had 19 points of error and only one point was ever addressed and that was point numb...

>> you know, if i were to challenge him and say, well, this medicine worked for her in '99, why aren't we trying it now? i'm confident this will work, you know, and kind of looking 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 arranged for her to be hospitalized within 2...

Common practice, you know? day shift. slow. guys killing time, helping each other out. >> eight minutes after dialing 911, andrea yates calls her husband rusty yates and tells him it's time to come home. it's not yet 10:00 a.m. >> i couldn't imagine what actually happened but i'm worried. andrea called me was firm tone, said i needed to come home, so i did. >> i moved in to the house and david approached me right at the hallway and i said, when's going on? he looked at me and said, it's a homicide. so i looked to my right and down and there was yates. she was sitting on the couch. just sitting...

Permit. >> the yates family was very religious. >> from a religion standpoint, i would say we're both pretty conservative. >> rusty had been serious about religion since college. she introduced andrea to the unconventional preachings of a man named michael woroniecki. >> woroniecki, his family traveled around the country or certainly around texas in a bus prosthetizing i think mostly on college campuses. >> the female student that is they were going to hell because they were studying and learning in a material world when they should be out there reproducing. >> the dilemma with his message as ...

Until the following march when andrea's father died. >> andrea's such a wonderful, caring person. she cared deeply for her father. and felt a great deal of responsibility because she was the nurse in the family. come march 31st, she's taken by rusty to devereaux hospital. rusty's concerned about her. andrea was diagnosed with major depressive disorder, postpartum onset. >> but at that time, hospitals weren't educated about postpartum illness, psychiatrists weren't educated about postpartum illness. >> after the 2001 hospitalization, andrea continued seeing a hospital psychiatrist as an outpati...