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Monday October 9, 2006
Andrea Yates:
Two Texas women who killed their young children in cases that drew nationwide attention have formed a friendship at a state hospital, a newspaper reports. Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children in the bathtub, and Dena Schlosser, whose baby died after she severed the girl’s arms with a kitchen knife, became roommates at the Maple unit of the North Texas State Hospital after each was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
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Wednesday July 26, 2006
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HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- Andrea Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity Wednesday in her second murder trial for the bathtub drownings of her young children.
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HOUSTON – Jurors deliberated for a second day Tuesday without reaching a verdict in Andrea Yates' murder retrial but reviewed evidence, including videotapes of two psychiatrists' interviews with the woman who drowned her five children in the bathtub.
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HOUSTON Whether jurors find Andrea Yates guilty of drowning her children or innocent by reason of insanity depends on how they see her: a perfectionist afraid of failing as a parent or a loving but psychotic mother trying to save the youngsters from hell.
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Thursday July 20, 2006
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Feared one would grow up to be serial killer, another a prostitute
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Tuesday July 18, 2006
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HOUSTON (AP) -- A forensic psychiatrist is to testify for a third day at the second murder trial of Andrea Yates, who is accused of drowning her children in the bathtub.
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Monday July 10, 2006
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HOUSTON — A psychiatrist testified Friday that she warned Andrea Yates not to have any more children after she tried to commit suicide twice within months of having her fourth child in 1999.
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Friday July 7, 2006
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HOUSTON - Nearly two months before Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the family bathtub, her two oldest sons rushed into the living room and asked their grandmother why their mom was filling the tub with water, the older woman testified Thursday.
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Friday June 30, 2006
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Jail Psychiatrist Testifies Andrea Yates Was Psychotic After Child Drownings
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Thursday June 29, 2006
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HOUSTON -- Prosecutors rested their case after showing how Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub, but defense attorneys say Yates had severe postpartum psychosis and did not know the drownings were wrong.
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Tuesday June 27, 2006
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Insanity defense raised at murder retrial for Houston housewife
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HOUSTON (AP) - Andrea Yates softly said ``not guilty'' Monday as her retrial began on charges that she drowned her five children in a bathtub just over five years ago.
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Monday June 19, 2006
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Both sides plan to reuse much of the same evidence, witnesses
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Wednesday March 1, 2006
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A judge Wednesday cleared the way for the second trial of Andrea Yates on murder charges in the 2001 drowning of her children in the family bathtub.
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Thursday January 6, 2005
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Others see few changes forthcoming
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HOUSTON – A Texas appeals court on Thursday overturned the conviction of Andrea Yates in the drowning deaths of her five children.
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The Texas First Court of Appeals reversed today the capital murder conviction of Clear Lake mom Andrea Yates, who's serving a life sentence for drowning her children in a bathtub. The three-member appeals court granted Yates’ motion to have her conviction reversed because, among other things, the state’s expert psychiatric witness testified that Yates had patterned her actions after a Law & Order television episode that never existed. In ordering a new trial, the appellate court said the trial judge erred in not granting a mistrial once it was learned that testimony of Dr. Park Dietz was false.
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Wednesday July 21, 2004
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Andrea Yates, who is serving a life sentence for drowning her children in a bathtub three years ago, has been hospitalized in Galveston because she is refusing to eat, her attorney said Tuesday night.
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Monday January 26, 2004
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Incorrect testimony about a nonexistent episode of a popular TV drama -- and new questions about the innocence of the mistake -- may be grounds for a new trial for Andrea Yates.
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HOUSTON - Nearly two years after Andrea Yates' conviction for drowning her children in the family's bathtub, her husband continues to assert his mentally ill wife never should have been prosecuted.
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Andrea Yates:
Rusty Yates shifted his inscrutable gaze from an empty patch of grass to the children at play.
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