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>> 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, i'm condoning her actions. you know? her actions were almost indescribably devastating to me and my family. >> he took it upon himself like it was it was so...

Mrs. yates would have another opportunity to have her case heard. dr. dietz, in my view, made an honest mistake. >> the reversal, though a major victory, was only the start. the defense team pressed for an outright dismissal of all charges, arguing that a second trial would constitute double jeopardy. finally, in january 2005, some three and a half years after the original conviction, the texas state supreme court issued an opinion. double jeopardy did not apply, but andrea yates would be granted a new trial. >> tonight, she drowned her five children, was sentenced to spend the rest of her lif...

Heaven. you are sort of pinned in to a corner in that way of thinking. >> by 1996, the yates had two children, noah and john. and a short-term job opportunity in florida, rusty opted not to be burdened by owning another house. >> going in to an rv was kind of more of an experiment for us. and so what we did was we rented our house that we had here and bought a 38-foot travel trailer and pulled it to florida and lived at a campground in florida during the course of that assignment. >> at the time, andrea was again pregnant. she miscarried just after the move. in 1997, the yates returned to hous...

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 community that some people believed he was complicit in the mu...

>> it's a tuesday morning, just after 9:00. yates has just fed the kids. then, she draws the bath. >> what's the problem? >> 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 knapp, 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 i...