when the news about Andrea Yates broke it shocked the nation How could a mother have killed her five little children Andrea Yates is the sickest woman I have ever seen we never had a doubt that she knew right from wrong never I was told by people who saw in those days that Andrea was a fabulous mother we hero woried Andrea what were the forces that led her to commit these horrible acts we all go the hell yeah she didn't have any ability to judge the rightness or wrongness of what this preacher was saying to her you are accountable for those children no other people does God single out than children and in her world there was no other way out for her children other than to send them to God sometimes you just have to look at it and call it what it is it's an evil act Andrea Yates next on Mugshots corner [Music] [Music] on June 20th 2001 Houston Police received a 911 call from a normally quiet section of town problem to to come I need to know why we're coming ma' is he there standing next to you me are you having a service are you ill or what uh yes I'm Ill you need an ambulance no I need a police officer an ambulance Andrea Yates then called her husband Rusty a project manager at Nessa she said come home and he said is anything wrong and she said yes he said with the kids yes how many she said all of them when two police officers arrived at the house Andrea confessed to her crimes the police showed up at her door said what's the problem she said I killed my [Music] children Andrea Yates had drowned her five children her husband Rusty arrived at the house shortly after the police Rusty falls to the ground slams his hands into the grass he then spent much time going from window to door looking in trying to see Andrea and saying Andrea how could you do this how could you do this I get a phone call from my sister turn on the news turn on the news and I just couldn't believe it I just cannot imagine the Andrea that I knew being capable of doing what she did to her own kids that Andrea may try to hurt the children I mean that never even entered my mind not not my mind not my mother's mind I don't believe any any of the family's mind that that would ever happen the officers led her out the back door to avoid parad her past Rusty and took her to police headquarters in downtown Houston where they questioned her after you drew the bath water what was your intent what were you about to do have the children during the 17-minute confession Andrea Yates detailed what she had done this morning um what time was it that you got out of bed this morning at 8:10 okay and who in your household was awake at that time um my husband and Mary and Luke PA we knew she started with Paul who was the middle child then she proceeded with Luke killed him we knew that she took John then from her statement and drowned him put him in the bed then she drowned Mary left Mary floating in the tub when she summon Noah the seven-year-old in there for anyone to kill one child to see that this child is is dead has died to have that emotional effect and then go to the next child it's it's just it's hard to even imagine or put yourself in that person's position how could anyone do that occurs to you the next day Rusty shocked Everyone by expressing sympathy for his wife I mean I'm supportive of her it's hard you know like I said because you know I'm torn one one side of me you know blames her because she you know she did it you know but the other side of me says well she didn't because that wasn't her you know she she wasn't in a right frame of mind and and uh I guess her she had you know psychotic you know side effects uh with her depression that uh that led her to do this Rusty revealed that Andrea had been battling a mental illness leaving police and the public to ponder whether she was a cold-blooded killer or whether her actions were the result of a severe mental disease the only question she asked the whole time was what are we going to plea what type of plea whether guilty or not guilty and she indicated that she did not want to plea not guilty that she wanted to go ahead and receive punishment because she was a bad mother she was the sickest person I've ever seen in my life um she was not bathed she was dressed in this orange jail outfit her shirt was falling off of her she didn't have a bra her hair was hanging in her face and she was shaking she had eyes that when she looked at you had no pupils it like shark eyes she could answer questions about what happened but any sort of question about why or what's going on or what you're doing it just sent her into an immediate um Never Never Land my first thought was this woman has postpartum psychosis postpartum psychosis is a severe form of depression that affects one out of every thousand women after giving birth usually the disorder takes the form of a delusion and the horrible tragedy of postpartum psychosis is that the delusion is about the child in most cases I've seen women who are afraid to bathe their children for fear that they'll drown them women who have had thoughts of suffocating their children really horrible horrible things while Andrea's lawyers were preparing for an insanity defense the state was gathering evidence to prove that Andrea was criminally responsible for her actions Texas light years does the person have a severe mental disease or defect and if they do uh as a result of that severe mental defect were they able to tell that their actions were wrong that their conduct was wrong at the time of the offense we knew within a week that the evidence was telling us that she knew right from wrong at the time of the crime as people Gather in front of the Yates house for a candlelight vigil 2 days after the murders public public opinion about Andrea Yates was growing stronger this was such a polarizing event either people had sympathy for Andrea and cared for her or they hated her with every drop of blood in their bodies there are people all over Houston including most of the to show hosts who would oh she knew what she was doing oh she's just evil oh they're terrible people um they just totally discounted the fact that Andrea was very very sick a week after the murders the legal posturing and the public outrage quieted down for the children's funeral it was such a typical hot muggy miserable Houston summer afternoon with probably a 20% chance of rain it was so hot and miserable every so often there would be a little drop of water from the trees almost like the trees were [Music] weeping I went to the uh the service at the church but not to the burial it was just a little too much for me to handle I just wanted to think about my sister and the children on my own Andrea was undergoing a battery of psychiatric exams she was put on anti-depressant and anticho medication as she became more stable she started to reveal disturbing reasons for the murders what were you trying to accomplish then when you did take your children's lives maybe in their their innocent years God would take them up God would take them up to be in heaven is that what you mean all right and if you had not taken their lives what did you think would happen to them I they were have continued stumbling and where did they end up they hope in Hell wanting to know what Andrea meant by stumbling the psychiatrist then asked her about her children's Behavior what sort of things did they do which showed you they weren't right well they they weren't um he just did a lot of silly stuff and didn't obey didn't obey you when you told them to do things all right you mentioned Their Manners before can you give me an example of Their Manners [Music] this when russy's Mom would visit they would um not Trad her will call her names be disrespectful mhm okay now you concluded that they were not righteous and you're religious person and explain to me what you meant by not being righteous well they didn't do thing go they didn't do things God likes while Andrea's lawyers entered a plea of Not Guilty by reason of insanity the DA's office announced that they would be seeking the death penalty if this woman had gone into a neighbor's house and killed her five children and thought it was the best thing to do for those children to save those children because she felt those children weren't being raised in the right way do you think anyone would have have felt the way they do what is it that you can as a mother take the lives of your own children and because it's so horrific people just don't want to think that that could be an evil act 3 months after her arrest a jury deemed Andrea Yates competent to stand trial why so nice we when we come back was there something in yates's background that could have led her to this horrible [Music] act Andrea Yates grew up in Houston where she was the youngest of five children of Andrew and Karen Kennedy she was my best friend from 8th grade through the end of college [Music] a lot of people when you're teenagers you just think your oh your family just is totally embarrassing and I never got that from Andrea I mean she really was pretty devoted to her parents she was always wanting to help other people out um elderly people in the neighborhood just dried a lot of satisfaction out of out of wanting to do things for other people instead of people doing things for her in high school she was the captain of the swim team the historian of the National Honor Society and graduated valedictorian of her senior class she wasn't satisfied with um mediocre stuff she wanted things to be excellent I don't know about perfect but she valued Excellence after graduating from the University of Texas School of Nursing Andrea moved into an apartment complex in the suburbs and began dating I don't think anybody ever would have pictured Andrea getting married and having five kids cuz she never dated she just never never dated even once that I know of until we got out of college Rusty Yates a computer systems designer for NASA lived in the same apartment complex he told his story to author Susie Spencer the first time he saw Andrea she was floating in the swimming pool with her arms outstretched almost like a cross and he was listening to His Radio sitting by the pool just watching her thinking I could never have this woman she is too good Andrea ignored Rusty that day but a few months later it was she who made the first move the couple dated for 3 years before moving in together and eventually marrying and Rusty told me that Andrea did not like sex that she would dress in the closet he thought that once they got married it would be okay and Andrea still was always uncomfortable with sex and revealing her body after their wedding Andrea continued working as a nurse at a nearby hospital but before the couple celebr celebrated their first wedding anniversary Noah was born and like many women Andrea was faced with a critical decision whether or not to go back to work there are many women who will say over and over that Andrea wanted to go back to work that she really wanted to go into nursing again and Rusty will say no she didn't we talked about that I gave her the option of going back to work and she said no I'm a mom now that's all that matters that's all I want to do what's the truth I don't know because Andrea was a people pleaser so I think she would agree with whoever's talking at the moment I don't think Andrea regarded it as a problem that Rusty was the guy who would go to work and and support them and she's the one who would take care of the house and she wanted that she wanted the ward and June Cleaver kind of Lifestyle Andrea quit her job and appeared to adapt well to her role as a full-time mother but defense psychiatrists m aain that at the time something terrible was happening to her she had thoughts or visions of a knife and had thoughts about stabbing someone in blood she thought she heard Satan speak to her after the birth of Noah Andrea decided to keep the incident a secret and therefore the beginning signs of her illness went undiagnosed Andrea had to be perfect the perfect student the perfect daughter the perfect nurse so she could not reveal to anyone that she was having these Visions but that's another typical Andrea thing that she plays her cards close to the vest if she doesn't feel like telling you something no hint no hint is that right over the next four years Andrea had two more Sons John and Paul are you playing with those balloons meanwhile Rusty and Andrea were following the teachings of a fire and brimstone Street pracher Rusty had met in college God is going to destroy this Earth and all you wred Sinners Michael wari and his wife Rachel corresponded with their followers mostly through letters and videos the former college football player and former cheerleader were routinely in trouble with local authorities for their aggressive preaching style and ultimately left their home state of Michigan to avoid [Music] prosecution oh crazy crazy no no no no you crazy you the couple took their Ministry on the road and for three decades have traveled across the US and 23 other countries with their six children preaching their own brand of Christianity on street corners and at college campuses when I first discovered that they were a part of Michael War's system I knew exactly that she went through what I went through like Rusty David La Isa was in college when he met Michael wari he followed the preacher for 12 years we all go to hell yes to hell in Mike's teaching he constantly says that only a few make it so the red light went off with me and I started BEC very suspicious at the notion that there's many people who come to Salvation not just a few as he teaches wari preached an austere lifestyle and de la Isa believes it is this instruction that encouraged Rusty and Andrea to move from their Bourbon House to a mobile home in the nearby Campground our boys in the teachings of Michael wari to hold a job and to even live in a home is to participate in the evil satanic conspiracy against God so you know for Rusty to get his family in this mobile home and to kind of emulate this nomadic lifestyle comes directly from the teachings of Michael wari by the time Rusty and Andrea had their third son it was Andrea who had developed the stronger relationship with the Waris corresponding regularly with them then they see in a wari newsletter that the Waris have a bus for sale a used Greyhound bus Rusty and Andrea bought the converted bus and downsized again moving with their three young children from their mobile home to the 350 square foot bus the small bus that the children were being raised in uh the amount of children back to back to back one after another my mother and I knew that it took its toll on my sister meanwhile she was also helping to care for her father who was suffering from Alzheimer's the people at the RV park will say we knew something was wrong we were saying Rusty help her Rusty will talk about that we had clear lines of responsibility I was the bread winner Andrea was to take care of the kids Andrea remained in contact with the Waris you don't need to listen to someone tell you hateful things he's like a doctor he diagnoses your spiritual state by what you write him he encourages you to describe where you are with God and then he responds back to you in a Written Letter diagnosing and picking out your flaws from the letters I have that Rachel waren necki wrote to Andrea it was you are evil you are wicked you are a daughter of Eve who is a wicked witch you know the window of opportunity for us to minister to you is closing you have to repent now Mike believes that all women inherit a witchcraft nature from Eve and have the spirit of Jezebel so they should be the servant of a man and man should have you know dominance over the woman Jesus does single out one group children War's writings were particularly judgmental when it came to raising children he believes today's mothers are too permissive modern mother worldle was very very lazy all her children drove her crazy the Bible told her to spank and train them but Society said she must never constrain them the fruit of rebellion she did now see on the day of judgment she will have no plea modern mother worldly cast in hell now What Becomes of the children of such a jezebel this ties specifically with Andrea and what Ru I think gave her the notion that her kids are going to go to hell What Becomes of the children of the Jezebel she's The Jezebel shortly before her 35th Birthday Andrea had her fourth child Luke here we are on our way home here our tredition Luke when Luke was 4 months old rusty got a call similar to the one he would get the day of the murders Andrea calls Rusty at work and says come home I need help so he runs from NASA out to the RV park with the 350t bus walks in and says what's the matter Andrea is sitting there chewing her fingers not biting her fingernails chewing her fingers her legs are trembling her her arms are shaking she says I need help Andrea Yates had suffered a nervous breakdown next on mug shots Andrea and Rusty decide to get help but her descent [Music] continues b c d e f g h i j k l m n o oops p p what no r t v w x y and z now I know my abc want to come and play with me by the summer of 1999 Andrea Yates life was in turmoil she was caring for her ailing father homeschooling her three older boys and nursing her new infant all the while living in a 350 square ft bus and corresponding with the Waris but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble it is better for him that a heavy MST be hung around his neck and he be drowned in the depth of the sea I mean Jesus you're saying to kill yourself yeah then two weeks before her 35th birthday Andrea suffered her nervous breakdown Rusty does not know what to do so he packs up Andrea and the kids and takes them for a walk on the beach in Galveston in the trial they said why did you do this Rusty when your wife is having a nervous pregnant he said I didn't know what else to do which I think is typical with mental illness we don't know what to do the next day Rusty took Andrea and the kids to her mother's house that afternoon Andrea took an overdose of her father's sleeping pills and tried to commit suicide totally shocked I I never expected her to try that because she's very very strong so something must have really uh weakened her at some point to where she actually attempt suicide Andrea was rushed to a nearby hospital and transferred to a psychiatric unit where she was diagnosed with a major depressive disorder the hospital psychiatrist prescribed the anti-depressant Zola and she was there for about a week the medical records show that she was released because the insurance had run out didn't matter whether she was well or not but the insurance had run out she was then referred to a Dr Eileen starbranch a psychiatrist Dr starbranch recommended switching from the anti-depressant to Zyprexa an anticho used for treating bipolar Mania and schizophrenia Andrea didn't want want to be on medications for one thing Reverend War Nei believes that medicines are bad that doctors are bad so Andrea flushed this very expensive zy praia down the toilet Andrea Yates was developing a pattern of not taking the medications that could help control her illness she did what was called cheeking she would stick the the meds or medicines in her cheek looked like she had taken them and really hadn't and would later spit him out Andrea was staying at her parents house to recuperate scratching bald spots on her head and picking sores on her body she showed little signs of recovering her condition continued to deteriorate and as author Susie Spencer learned she began to hallucinate re-experiencing the vision she had after her first son Noah was born she's having a vision says get a knife get a knife get a knife get a knife get a knife so she ran and got a state knife from her mother's house goes into the bathroom and is holding it to her neck when Rusty comes in going you know noticing Andrea is missing where his sheet goes to the bathroom and she's saying get back let me do it let me do it please let me do it and he wrestled the knife away from her took her back into the hospital this time Andrea was admitted to a private center for psychiatric treatment after an emergency dose of the anticho drug hll Andrea loosened up and confessed to the doctors that she suffered the knife Vision as many as 10 times in several days and feared her Visions predicted violence when she went back into the hospital at this point she had claw marks on her legs where she had been trying to hold herself back from hurting anyone and she was trying to save her Children's Life by taking her own life about 50% of women with postpartum psychosis go on to be diagnosed uh with bipolar disorder or manic depressive illness the psychiatrist at the treatment center diagnosed Andrea with a major depressive disorder that was severe and recurrent with psychotic features in Andrea Yates case after looking at all the medical records and getting some psychological testing speaking to her family she'd probably had it for a very long time but her symptoms were not so severe that she wasn't standing on the street corner speaking to her self as Andrea's mother and siblings began discussing her condition they admitted their own struggles with depression and learned that a majority of the family had sought professional help women who have relatives with manic depressive illness are at a much greater risk for having postpartum psychosis the psychiatrist recommended electric shock treatments but Rusty and Andrea decided against it so after three weeks in the Psychiatric Center Andrea was released with prescriptions for an arsenal of drugs including the anti-depressants of fexer and Wellbutrin and the antipsychotic hdll she continued monthly visits with do starbranch I really don't think my sister's children completely understood um I think that they knew that their mother was sick and needed to get some help but uh they all missed their mother because she was gone quite a bit during that summer after Andrea attempted suicide Mrs Kennedy went to Rusty and said Rusty no more but get Andrea a house so it was while she was in the hospital in 1999 that he went out and bought the house in Clear Lake and in September she was at home in their new home throwing her son Paul a birthday party with making him an elaborate cake that looked like a truck she was very creative in her birthday cakes for kids Andria's condition improved in their new house her Focus continued to be the children as she cared for her son and homeschool the older three and the kids were obviously brilliant if you've ever looked at any of their artwork these are incredibly talented children for 4 months life seemed to be returning to normal in November despite warnings from doctors Andrea and Rusty decided to have another baby women with histories of postpartum psychosis have 50 to 80% chance of having another episode Andrea stopped taking her medication and discontinued the use of birth control in 4 months she was pregnant coming up Andrea's fifth child is born setting off the series of events that would end an unspeakable [Music] tragedy Andrea Yates had suffered violent Visions after the births of her first and fourth child she survived two suicide attempts and was finally given a combination of anti-depressants and anticho that appeared to calm her delusions and paranoia Rusty and Andrea knew she suffered from postpartum psychosis the psychiatrist had told them that having another child could trigger another psychotic episode having a child is a choice and there are ways that you can control pregnancy and there are ways that you can make decisions not to bring more children into this world if you know there's dangers Rusty explained this as if you were given a brand new mercedesbenz and said here it is for free but if you take this mercedesbenz you're going to have the flu for two weeks would you do it he said of course he said that's the way we thought of it Andrea might get sick but we knew there were medicines out there that could help and would put her on those medicines and should' be fine Andrea and Rusty ended their sessions with Dr starbranch and Andrea stopped taking both her medications and her birth control on November 30th 2000 they had a baby girl Mary that's so cute a big brother hold his big little sister that spring three months before the murders Andrea's ailing father died Andre as much as she loved my father and was close to him I know that this was just really really hard on on her as it was on me too Andrea began to deteriorate she stopped talking refused to drink liquids and scratched ball spots on her head Rusty recognized the symptoms and took Andrea for treatment over the next two months she would be committed and released from a private psychiatric Treatment Center twice the staff psychiatrist put her back on medication changing drugs and adjusting dosages a lot of this information that is that has come out now my mother and I were not privileged to that so all my mother and I basically witnessed at this point was my sister's roller coaster ride two days before the murders Rusty took Andrea back to the psychiatric center for a follow-up visit and told the psychiatrist she was not improving again her dosage of anti-depressants was adjusted what we learned early on was that there wasn't any one thing that was a stressor to cause her to eventually go into into the psychosis it seemed to be a number of different factors uh the primary factor being um the birth of children and how that affected her and then the other environmental stressors a religious uh delusion if you will um that gets reinforced as time goes by you add it all together you get the right combination and it's just a recipe for disaster it's better to tie a stone around neck and throw yourself in this seas and cause little one to stum [Music] stumble finally on June 20th 2001 Andrea did the unthinkable what happened it was just you know incomprehensible I mean I I just can't I I you know looking back you know I struggled with it all last night I couldn't sleep last night I was like you know is there anything I could have done you know for Andrea to be held criminally responsible she would have to be found legally sane there are millions of people with five children that that work and are and and some are divorced some are with five children in homes with abusive husbands some of them have all of those factors plus some degree of mental illness and do not kill their children do not do violent acts Texas is a very strict standard as to uh uh the insanity defense um there's two criteria one is that um someone has to have a mental disease or defect well everybody acknowledged that she clearly had a mental disease and or defect and the second criteria is that she didn't know that her actions were wrong according to a National Institute of mental health study the insanity defense is used less than 1% of the time and of those cases only 26% are argued successfully adding to the defense's challenges the Texas guidelines are among the toughest to meet defense lawyers had even convened their own test jury to see how their strategy would hold up we did a uh a mock trial before we went to trial and the biggest problem we had was they just could not get over the fact that uh uh she killed her children and confessed to killing her children when mugshots Returns the trial of Andrea Yates will she be found legally sane and criminally responsible for the murder of her [Music] children Andrea Yates trial began 8 months after she drowned her five children the state of Texas versus Andrew P Yates the state was not taking any chances and only tried her for three of the murders holding back the other two in case they didn't get a conviction if found criminally responsible Andrea faced a death sentence our approach to this case all along was to simplify the case for the jury whether or not the person knows right from wrong and to keep the jury focused on that issue rather than the than the history of mental illness and it was much more difficult for us to try to convince a jury to look beyond the literal interpretation as to what she thinks right and what she thinks wrong is uh and make your decision on that the state's case focused on the physical evidence of the crime and used it to demonstrate that Andrea was legally sane the morning of the murders she had to prepare to do this and part of that prep pration was was choosing a time when it could be done and that was the time between 9 and 10:00 in the morning one of the things that I felt we could only show through the physical evidence was how she chose the order of the children to kill them if she had started with Noah the oldest Noah's seven we know Noah put up the biggest fight she could have alerted the other children and possibly John the 5-year-old could have gotten out and so this was a very methodical organized manner in which she went about executing the children both sides agreed that Andrea was mentally ill but the defense argued that her illness made her too sick to be able to know right from wrong to illustrate this they played for the jury portions where Andrea exhibited extreme delusion they've been eating some candy one morning and we Hadar the TV on cartoon and and just flashed a scene where the comic the cartoon characters were talking to us the Caron say hey kids stop eating so much candy okay that flash and then back to the program all right so you concluded that the TV had this special message for you and your family she had tried to kill the devil in 1999 twice when she tried to commit suicide I believe she had tried over and over to get rid of the devil you can't get rid of the devil so the only option she had to save her children from a life in hell was to kill them and to sacrifice her own eternal life for the children afraid Satan would ruin my children to his to himself and maybe that even I had some Satan in me it was important to be able to have a jury not believe that we were uh defending her on the devil made me do it premise and we were cautious but we nevertheless were able to through the little cartoon that was introduced in evidence The Jezebel with The Stumbling children uh that this was Andrea's delusion the defense argued that Andrea is a IAL confession should have been videotaped so the jury could see how she was acting right after the murders the interviews they did see were taped weeks even months after the drownings and by the time of the trial with the help of her medication Andrea appeared to be more stable this is a huge problem this is a moral dilemma for a psychiatrist it might have been to Andrea's Advantage legally to not medicate her to leave her quote unquote crazy so that the jury could see what state she was in at the time she committed the drownings for everyone involved it was an extraordinarily emotional trial we can have experts and did have experts that talked in terms of mental illness uh for three and a half weeks but it is so difficult to overcome um pajamas it is difficult to overcome photographs it is difficult to overcome the image of this young boy faced down in in in the bathtub the way that the case unfolded and because of some things that happened during the case I was fairly confident that the jury would find her guilty uh that that is that they would reject the insanity defense ladies and gentlemen the court has been advised that the jury has reached a verdict after three weeks of testimony and dozens of witnesses the jury took only 3 and 1/2 hours to reach a ver we the jury find the defendant Andrea P guilty of capital murder as charged in the indictment Andrea Yates was found guilty on March 12th exactly one year after the death of her father and I'm sitting right there behind Mrs Karen Kennedy Andrea's mother and Andrea's favorite brother Brian and they say guilty and then Andrea turns around and she looks straight at Brian and I'm right behind Brian and like I say she tried tried to smile and she just couldn't and she just started weeping and turned around and walked off knowing andr I can't see how a minute will go by on on any day that she won't constantly think about what had happened and and missing the children uh that I think that she'll always be living with her pain I think the jurors really focused on these children and what they went through and how the evidence of the killing of these children showed her state of mind that she knew right from wrong and was responsible every single family member of the murder victims wanted this woman to live to not be tried for death and here she was convicted and at that point they didn't know if she was going to be sentenced to life or death 3 days later the jury would reconvene to decide whether Andrea Yates would live or die her sentence next on Mugshots in the spring of 2002 a jury found Andrea Yates legally sane when she drowned her five children there were only two possible sentences life in prison or death by lethal injection I Can't Describe to you the feeling that a defense attorney has wherein uh uh you've had a verdict that goes against you now you're going to go and decide whether or not someone's going to live or die after deliberating for only 40 minutes the jury decided to spare Andrea yates's life she was sentenced to life in prison I'm sure it's very very hard in her each day um for for for the sun to come up and then she's by herself and and uh just uh probably doing a lot of a lot of thinking I would imagine clearly she was Ill probably in her late teens or early 20s but but very subtly there were some choices made along the way though that I think contributed to the final outcome I think one unfortunate thing that happened was that they met this preacher not that the preacher caused her to be sick but she didn't have any ability to judge the rightness or wrongness of what this man was saying to her one of my sisters asked me well how can you still love her I she's my friend and what she did is not who she is um there's just a break with reality there for her don't look at cast in blame just feel sorry I don't have pity for her I have pity for the children they never had a chance in that home they were little they were defenseless I think there has to be responsibility for adults she had different Avenues available to her and this was a choice that she made and I'm glad that she's been held responsible Andrea Yates is imprisoned in the sky view unit a psychiatric prison in East Texas she will be eligible for parole in 40 years a lot of people say the crest thing in the world for Andrea Yates was for her to become healthy again and know what she did but all we know is Andrea Yates is one sick lady today with five dead babies and she knows she killed them can you live with that could this mother who would stay up all night sewing for him live with that I [Music] [Music] [Music] he he