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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 yates family was very religious. >> from a religion standpoint i would say we're bo...

They tend to get worse. >> 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 yourself. >> andrea yates was ho...

Services. she currently resides at kerrville state hospital. there is no timetable for her release. >> i don't think that any judge will ever sign a paper that says andrea yates can be completely free from supervision. >> i don't think andrea believes she will ever be free. she lives with the memory of her children. she misses them terribly. >> this didn't happen to andrea yates because she's an evil criminal, bad person that needs to be killed. this happened to andrea yates because she has a biologic illness. we don't understand it very well. we can't predict who is going to get it and why. >...

Week after the murders and sealed the public's view of rusty yates. >> i think people want to assign blame. how did this happen? why did this happen? who's at fault? and if you believe that andrea yates was mentally ill, then you say, okay, well it wasn't her fault. she was sick. it must be rusty's fault. i think what turns people off is that he smiled a lot. >> he didn't show the kind of emotion that was expected. and once he was kind of typecast as not showing enough emotion no matter how much he showed after that, that's how he was viewed. >> rusty's demeanor so incensed the houston communi...

Psychosis. >> from the time of the tragedy to the time of the trial, she improved. i mean, to the point where she wasn't having hallucinations. >> on september 22nd, 2001, just three months and two days after the murders, yates was deemed competent to stand trial. 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 in to the equation. >> had i gone after rusty, as people wanted me to do, then the jury could be tol...