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Andrea Yates
By: Katie King

ANDREA YATES CASE
Andrea Yates has no remorse or justification for lives she stole from

Andrea’s Basic Information
 DOB: July 2,1964
 Hometown: Clear

Lake, Texas
 Diagnosed with depressive disorder
 In 1999, she tried stabbing herself, and got admitted to
Memorial Spring
Shadows Glen.

 She was then

prescribed Haldol
 She clearly had mental issues

www.Biography.com/people/andrea_yates_235801

Leading up to the Murder
 After her second son Noah, she

started seeing violent visions of people getting stabbed.
 She thought she heard Satan talk to her, but she kept it to herself.
 She also, started thinking bout hurting her children www.Biography.com/people/andrea_yates_235801 Leading up to the Murder


Rusty found Andrea shaking and chewing on her fingers.  He brought her to her mothers house to calm down.

She then tried to kill herself with her fathers medicine.
 Finally received help and got prescribed Zoloft for

depression

www.Biography.com/people/andrea_yates_235801

The Murders
 On June 20, 2001, she drowned all of her 5 children one

by one in your bathtub.
 Noah(7), John(5), Paul(3), Luke(2), and Mary (6 months)
 Noah saw Mary in the bathtub surrounded by feces; he

started to run but Andrea caught him and drowned him in the tub floating next to Mary

www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/ andrea_yates/index.html. Why?
 When the police asked

her who killed them?
She bluntly said she did.
 He asked her why?, And she said it was because she was a bad mother
 She wanted to be punished, and that it was a way to receive help She said her children weren't developing correctly. www.cnn/2013/03/25/us/andrea_yates_fast_facts/ Trial
 At first she didn’t

want to plead guilty or no contest.  She was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of her
5 children

 The second trial,

(2006) she pleaded guilty by reason of insanity
 She now can leave jail and go to a mental hospital
 $200,000 bond for her to be

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