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God would allow, andrea yates methodically drowned her own kids one by one in the family tub. >> we didn't know what to do. we just looked at each other, and there was this moment in time where all of the training, you know, all the scenes that you have made, everything that you have been taught and learned and instinct went right out the window. >> police were there in my yard. i wanted to go inside. they wouldn't let me inside. they told me what happened, and, you know, i just -- i remember laying in the grass and just bawling. >> and the husband showed up. and he started screaming, andrea, ...

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 murders. >> the harris county district attorney's office received so many inquiries about whether he was also liable for the deaths of children and if you talk to people on the street, there were a lot of people who would express that idea to you. >> did i do everything that i could an...

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 -- i mean she wouldn't like me to say this, but she called herself fertile myrtle. seemed like every -- yeah. it wasn't hard. >> they would give each child a biblical name. >> i know that rusty knew and believed that, you know, we'll have as many kids as g...

>> 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 napp, 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 imagine what had actually happened, but i was worried because andrea called me with a firm tone and s...

>> this is our little girl that was born today. >> everything seemed fine until the following march when andrea's father died. >> andrea is such a wonderful, caring person. she cared deeply for her father. and felt a great deal of responsibility because she was the nurse in the family. come march 31st she is 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 hospita...