Rusty Yates spent decades defending his own wife, Andrea, after a psychotic break turned deadly.

Andrea Yates killed her five children after drowning them in the bathtub of her suburban Houston home — but nearly 25 years later, her ex-husband maintains that being a mother was her "favorite role." ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andrea Yates, a 37-year-old Texas mother of five, made national headlines when she admitted to drowning her children in June 2001.

Andrea Yates shocked the world when she killed her five kids by drowning them in a bathtub back in June 2001. More than two decades later, her crime and trial are being broken down in Investigative ...

Andrea Yates in June 2001. When police responded to a 911 call from Andrea Yates' Texas home in June 2001, she delivered a chilling confession: "I just killed my children." That horrific sentence ...

HOUSTON Andrea Yates' murder conviction for drowning her children in the bathtub was overturned by an appeals court Thursday because a psychiatrist for the prosecution gave erroneous testimony that ...

Harris County Assistant District Attorney Alan Curry said the case will be retried or a plea bargain considered. Jurors rejected Yates' insanity defense in 2002 and found her guilty of two capital ...

HOUSTON -- Videotaped interviews with Andrea Yates show her emerging from psychosis in the months after she drowned her children in their bathtub, a psychiatrist testified. In a tape played in court ...

A new true crime series follows the story of Andrea Yates, a killer allegedly influenced by a Michigan preacher. "A mother's breakdown. A cult's grip. Events that shock the world. Discover how a ...