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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 that 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, seek...

Now remarried with a young son. he remains in contact with andrea. >> i can say that coming to a decision to divorce andrea was a really difficult. it took me probably more time than it should have, but i finally came to the understanding that there's a difference between forgiveness and consequences. >> i talk to her, andrea, probably four times a week. i long ago crossed the line from professionalism to, you know, personal involvement, and she is a daughter basically. and that's the way i treat andrea. >> george parnham and i and the mental health association of houston and some other people...

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 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 psychiatrists to testify. dr. phillip resnick led for the defense. his counterpart was dr. park

She did very well in high school. i think she was valedictorian of her high school class. grades were very important to her. being a good daughter was very important to her. 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 was how fast that happened. she used to joke. she wouldn't want me to ...

And with the psychotic episodes, 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...