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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 disoriented as before. rusty took her b...

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 bawling. >> and the husband showed up. and he started screaming, andrea, you finally did it. 'ya, you r...

>> um. >> is someone burglarizing your house? i mean, what is it? >> the dispatcher assigned me that particular call for service being that it was in my zone of responsibility. another unit, david napp, he checked by with me, which is 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 had actually happened, but i was worried because andrea called me with a firm tone and said i needed to come ho...

God would allow, andrea yates 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 bawling. >> and the husband showed up. and he started screaming, andrea, ...

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...