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Andrea Yates

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.

Wednesday July 26, 2006
Andrea Yates:
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.

Andrea Yates:
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.

Andrea Yates:
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.

Thursday July 20, 2006
Andrea Yates:
Feared one would grow up to be serial killer, another a prostitute

Tuesday July 18, 2006
Andrea Yates:
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.

Monday July 10, 2006
Andrea Yates:
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.

Friday July 7, 2006
Andrea Yates:
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.

Friday June 30, 2006
Andrea Yates:
Jail Psychiatrist Testifies Andrea Yates Was Psychotic After Child Drownings

Thursday June 29, 2006
Andrea Yates:
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.

Tuesday June 27, 2006
Andrea Yates:
Insanity defense raised at murder retrial for Houston housewife

Andrea Yates:
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.

Monday June 19, 2006
Andrea Yates:
Both sides plan to reuse much of the same evidence, witnesses

Wednesday March 1, 2006
Andrea Yates:
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.

Thursday January 6, 2005
Andrea Yates:
Others see few changes forthcoming

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