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>> if you have more children, the risk that you are going to have more of these episodes is higher. 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 ...

The prosecution planned to argue that andrea's motive was to get back at her husband for perceived wrongs, like living in a bus, home schooling, 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 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-eminen...

>> 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 some kind of bath 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. >>...

Until after we had luke, which was our fourth. >> after her fourth child was born, she actually struggled with the thought of killing her child and she made a suicide attempt rather than risk harming her child. >> and there was one psychiatrist who saw her who told her and rusty don't have any more children. you need to stop. >> here we are on our our way home. what does that say, boys? congratulations, rusty and andrea. it's boy. giving us a little welcome home. yeah. >> just a year later, the yates were expecting their fifth child. ñzçzçzçxmñúñ

Kerville 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 figures 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 biological medical illness called psychosis. we don't understand it very well. we can't predict who is going to get it and why. >> i can fo...