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>> 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. 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 happened but i'm worried. she called me with a firm tone and said i needed to come home and so i did. >> i moved in to the house and david approached me right at the hallway and i said...

Was born today. >> everything seemed fine. until the following march when andrea's father died. >> andrea's such a wonderful, caring person. we cared deeply for her father. and felt a great deal of responsibility because she was the nurse in the family. until march 31st, she's taken by rusty to devereaux hospital. rusty's concerned about her. andrea was diagnosed with major depressive disorder, postpartum onset. >> at that time, hospitals weren't educated about postpartum illness, psychiatrists weren't educated about postpartum illness. >> after the 2001 hospitalization, andrea continued seein...

For what's right or wrong. and the law tells us that if there's no legal definition then a juror is able to use the common, every day meaning of those words. >> whatever the legal arguments, the public ire was also stoked by the way rusty yates was reacting. both to the murders and to the surrounding media circus. >> 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...

Children and people on the street will express that idea to you. >> did i do everything that i could and knew to do to help andrea and protect our children and i'd say that's the case. i didn't -- i really didn't know much of what else to do. i mean, she was sick. we went to the doctor. you know? we followed the doctor's orders. >> no one ever said to him, you 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 w...

Their fifth child and first girl, mary. >> this is our little girl that was born today. >> everything seemed fine. until the following march when andrea's father died. >> andrea's such a wonderful, caring person. we cared deeply for her father. and felt a great deal of responsibility because she was the nurse in the family. until march 31st, she's taken by rusty to devereaux hospital. rusty's concerned about her. andrea was diagnosed with major depressive disorder, postpartum onset. >> at that time, hospitals weren't educated about postpartum illness, psychiatrists weren't educated about postp...