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And a short-term job opportunity in florida. rusty opted not to be burdened by owning another house. >> going into an rv was kind of more of an experiment for us. and so what we did was we rented our house that we had here and bought a 38-foot travel trailer and pulled it to florida and lived at a campground in florida during the course of that assignment. >> at the time, andrea was again pregnant. she miscarried just after the move. in 1997, the yates returned to houston where their third son is born. in 1998, they trade in the rv for a renovated 350-square-foot bus, a bus they bought from mi...

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 life style. 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 began in february 2002. both sides brought in pre-eminent ps...

>> the woman here is not the woman that killed my children. she obviously wasn't herself. and i think that will come out. ou know, i'm just completely surprised that people think that, well, because i defend andrea as being a wonderful mother, that she shouldn't be punished, that somehow, you know, i'm condoning her actions, you know? her actions were almost indescribably devastating to me and my family. >> he took it upon himself like it was some kind of badge of honor and on tv and giving interviews and all kinds of stuff which is macabre and then at the funeral he actually had a slide show ...

>> 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 yourself. >> andrea yates was hospitalized after b...

Rusty opted not to be burdened by owning another house. >> going into an rv was kind of more of an experiment for us. and so what we did was we rented our house that we had here and bought a 38-foot travel trailer and pulled it to florida and lived at a campground in florida during the course of that assignment. >> at the time, andrea was again pregnant. she miscarried just after the move. in 1997, the yates returned to houston where their third son is born. in 1998, they trade in the rv for a renovated 350-square-foot bus, a bus they bought from michael woroniecki. baby number four arrives a ...