It was a horrifying case that defied belief.
Andrea Yates was a 36-year-old mother of five young children: Noah, 7; John, 5; Paul, 3; Luke, 2; and Mary, 6 months. When her husband went to work on June 20, 2001, Yates methodically drowned all five children in the bathtub of their Houston-area home. Then she called 911.
“I just killed my kids,” she told police when they arrived at her house.
During her high-profile trial, her attorneys argued that Yates suffered from psychotic delusions that were amplified by repeated episodes of postpartum depression. She was sentenced to prison in 2002, but the conviction was overturned on appeal. In her 2006 retrial,...
Andrea Yates was a 36-year-old mother of five young children: Noah, 7; John, 5; Paul, 3; Luke, 2; and Mary, 6 months. When her husband went to work on June 20, 2001, Yates methodically drowned all five children in the bathtub of their Houston-area home. Then she called 911.
“I just killed my kids,” she told police when they arrived at her house.
During her high-profile trial, her attorneys argued that Yates suffered from psychotic delusions that were amplified by repeated episodes of postpartum depression. She was sentenced to prison in 2002, but the conviction was overturned on appeal. In her 2006 retrial,...
- 9/29/2017
- by Steve Helling
- PEOPLE.com
Rhode Island is dropping charges against Elaine Yates, who was arrested earlier in January in Texas for allegedly abducting her two daughters in 1985 amid a custody battle with her husband, according to Click 2 Houston.
State Attorney General Peter Kilmartin announced Wednesday the charge was dropped due to “evidence that was not available or unknown to investigators prior to the discovery and apprehension of Ms. Yates, the laws in effect in 1988, when Ms. Yates left Rhode Island with her two daughters, and the fact that the well-being of the missing children has been established,” the Warwick Post reports.
Kilmartin added the...
State Attorney General Peter Kilmartin announced Wednesday the charge was dropped due to “evidence that was not available or unknown to investigators prior to the discovery and apprehension of Ms. Yates, the laws in effect in 1988, when Ms. Yates left Rhode Island with her two daughters, and the fact that the well-being of the missing children has been established,” the Warwick Post reports.
Kilmartin added the...
- 1/26/2017
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
Two Rhode Island sisters who vanished with their mother in 1985 have been located in Texas — and their mother has been accused of abducting them amid a bitter custody battle with her husband, People confirms.
According to a statement from the Rhode Island State Police obtained by People, a tip received two days before Christmas led them to Elaine Yates, who was living in Houston, Texas, allegedly using the alias Leina Waldberg.
When she was arrested, “Yates confirmed her true identity,” according to the statement, which adds authorities researched social media accounts to confirm Waldberg is Yates.
Yates faces child snatching and fugitive from justice charges,...
According to a statement from the Rhode Island State Police obtained by People, a tip received two days before Christmas led them to Elaine Yates, who was living in Houston, Texas, allegedly using the alias Leina Waldberg.
When she was arrested, “Yates confirmed her true identity,” according to the statement, which adds authorities researched social media accounts to confirm Waldberg is Yates.
Yates faces child snatching and fugitive from justice charges,...
- 1/17/2017
- by chrisharristimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
In 2001, the nation was shocked by the drowning deaths of five children at their own mother's hands. Andrea Yates kept her young children submerged in a bath tub until they stopped moving, and has lived in a Texas mental health facility since a judge deemed her not guilty by reason of insanity. A new NBC News interview with her attorney provides insight into what Yates' life is like, but offers only a brief update on her husband, Rusty Yates, who has since remarried and had a son with his new wife. Yates was not home at the time of the murders,...
- 9/2/2016
- by Chris Harris
- PEOPLE.com
In 2001, the nation was shocked by the drowning deaths of five children at their own mother's hands. Andrea Yates kept her young children submerged in a bath tub until they stopped moving, and has lived in a Texas mental health facility since a judge deemed her not guilty by reason of insanity. A new NBC News interview with her attorney provides insight into what Yates' life is like, but offers only a brief update on her husband, Rusty Yates, who has since remarried and had a son with his new wife. Yates was not home at the time of the murders,...
- 9/2/2016
- by Chris Harris
- PEOPLE.com
Fifteen years after drowning her five children in the bathtub of her suburban Houston home, Andrea Yates lives a reclusive life in a Texas mental health facility and frequently watches videos of her children laughing and playing, sources to close to Yates tell People. Yates, now 51, was convicted of the June 20, 2001 killings in a case that drew widespread media attention, both for the outrage and sadness over the children's deaths and for Yates's defense of severe postpartum psychosis. Years later, her conviction was overturned, and in 2006, Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity and has since lived in mental hospitals.
- 6/20/2016
- by Nancy Dunham, @NancyDWrites
- PEOPLE.com
Almost 14 years after Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub, her ex-husband Rusty Yates is speaking out on the tragedy in a new interview with Oprah Winfrey – and People has the exclusive first look.
On Oprah: Where Are They Now?, Yates reveals that he calls his ex-wife once a month and visits her once a year at the Kerrville, Texas, mental hospital where she resides.
"And what do you say? Have you forgiven her?" Winfrey asks in the interview.
"Yes," he replies, adding, "Forgiveness kind of implies that I have ever really blamed her. In some sense...
On Oprah: Where Are They Now?, Yates reveals that he calls his ex-wife once a month and visits her once a year at the Kerrville, Texas, mental hospital where she resides.
"And what do you say? Have you forgiven her?" Winfrey asks in the interview.
"Yes," he replies, adding, "Forgiveness kind of implies that I have ever really blamed her. In some sense...
- 4/24/2015
- by Tierney McAfee
- People.com - TV Watch
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