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Jun 20, 2022 · HOUSTON – Take a look back at the case that rocked the Clear Lake community after a mother, Andrea Yates, killed her five children in her home’s bathtub in 2001. June 20, 2001: NASA engineer...
Apr 2, 2014 · On June 20, 2001, she drowned all five of her children in the bathtub. She was found guilty of capital murder and sentenced to life, but a court of appeals reversed the conviction and found her...
The case of Yates—who had exhibited severe postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, and schizophrenia leading up to the murders—placed the M'Naghten rules, along with the irresistible impulse test for sanity, under close public scrutiny in the United States.
Jun 17, 2021 · On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her five small children one by one in the bathtub of her Clear Lake home. Yates, who is now 56, was tried twice for the deaths of her children. In 2002,...
This Article will relate the facts that led up to Andrea Yates’s homicides, summarize the testimony of prosecution and defense psychiatrists, contrast Mrs. Yates’s first and second trials, and comment on public perceptions of the insanity defense.
Mar 25, 2013 · Phillippe Diederich/Getty Images. The trial of Andrea Yates — Yates is escorted into court on June 22, 2001, in Houston. Her trial began on February 18, 2002. The prosecution's expert...
Nov 13, 2009 · The defense rests in the trial of Andrea Yates, a 37-year-old Texas woman who confessed to killing her five young children by drowning them in a bathtub. Less than a week later, on March 13,...
