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Monday April 5, 2004

Deanna LaJune Laney:

Pastor preaches of healing at church attended by mother who killed young sons

Monday, April 5, 2004 TYLER, Texas - At the church where Deanna Laney once ministered to youth, sang in the choir and spoke in tongues, worshippers Sunday prayed for her and her family a day after she was acquitted by reason of insanity of bludgeoning two of her young sons to death.

Saturday April 3, 2004

Deanna LaJune Laney:

Mom who said she killed on God’s orders acquitted

Jury rules she was insane when she bludgeoned her 3 children

Thursday April 1, 2004

Deanna LaJune Laney:

Mother on trial for killing sons describes killings

Mother on trial for killing sons describes on tape how she smashed their skulls with rocks

Wednesday March 31, 2004

Deanna LaJune Laney:

Laney’s husband: ‘I can’t understand.’

He tells jurors that his wife 'loved the boys'

Deanna LaJune Laney:

Psychiatrist: Yates knew right from wrong, but Laney did not

The renowned psychiatrist who concluded that Andrea Yates knew her actions were wrong when she drowned her children has testified that an East Texas woman who bludgeoned her children to death with rocks did not know right from wrong at the time.

Saturday May 17, 2003

Deanna LaJune Laney:

Lawyer in case of slain children may use defense similar to Yates

Associated Press, May 13, 2003