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Mental illness. >> overwhelmingly, the people were very harsh in their assessment. the community of psychiatric workers, doctors were horrified that we would prosecute someone who had a legitimate mental illness but that was a minority. >> andrea yates' actions were certainly incomprehensible. but did that mean she wassen sane? >> you can be mentally ill and the standard 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 if there's no legal definition then a j...

She went to nursing school and 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 is how fast that happened. she called herself fertile myrtle. seemed like every -- yeah. it wasn't hard. >> each child, a biblical name. >> i know that rusty knew and believed that, you know, we'll have as many kids as god will permit. >> the ...

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 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 she 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 24 hours. >> when andrea was sent home from de...

>> the woman here is not the woman that killed my children. she obviously wasn't herself. i think that will come out. 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 as a badge of honor and on tv and giving interviews and all kinds of stuff which is macabre and then at the funeral he had a slide show of his kids. >> the funeral took place one ...

Know, your children might die because of your wife's illness. nobody said, you know, the risk is with postpartum psychosis 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 side show. 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...