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Nobody said, you know, the risk is with postpartum psychosis that the children are in danger. >> i personally did not see rusty as such a bad guy. i think he cared deeply for his wife. he cared deeply for his children. >> in the end, the rusty yates controversy was simply a sideshow. his wife was the main event, and the state was going to try the case to the fullest extent of the law seeking nothing less than the death penalty. >> she's going to say that noah got his head up a couple of times and that she was able to push him down and control him and force him under that water until he lost co...

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." giving us a little welcome home. yeah. >> just a year later, the yates were expecting their fifth child. ♪ ♪

'99, why aren't we trying it now, i'm confident this will work and kind of looks 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 then arranged for her to be hospitalized within 24 hours. >> when andrea was sent home from devereaux the second time, she was just as disoriente...

>> 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...

Went to a very 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 in 1989. they were both 25. 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, but she called herself fertile myrtle. seemed like every -- yeah. it wasn't hard. >> they would give each child a biblical name. >> i know that rusty knew and believed that, you know, w...