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Andrea Pia Yates (née Kennedy; born July 3, 1964) is an American woman from Houston, Texas, who confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub on June 20, 2001.
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May 21, 2023 · Andrea Yates was a religious and mentally ill woman who killed her five children in 2001, believing it was the only way to save them from hell. She was found not guilty by reason of insanity and spent most of her life in a psychiatric hospital.
Apr 2, 2014 · Andrea Yates was a mother who drowned her five children in 2001, claiming postpartum psychosis. She was convicted of capital murder and later found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Apr 6, 2022 · Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children in 2001 and was found not guilty by reason of insanity, has declined a hearing that would determine if she can leave a psychiatric facility. Her attorney says she is doing well and visits her children's graves regularly.
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- Kait Hanson
Jun 20, 2016 · I t’s been 15 years since Andrea Yates drowned her five young children in the bathtub of their suburban Houston home in a quintuple murder that gripped the nation. Yates, now 51, was convicted...
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- Melissa Chan
Apr 6, 2022 · April 6, 2022 · 2 min read. Andrea Yates, the 36-year-old mother who killed her five children in 2001 and was found not guilty by reason of insanity, has once again waived her annual right to a...
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Dec 2, 2006 · Former nurse Andrea Yates, whose postnatal mental illness led her to drown her five children, had her life sentence overturned at a retrial earlier this year, after successfully pleading insanity. Faith McLellan reviews the case and its implications for mental health in the criminal justice system.
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