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

Can postpartum psychosis affect whether Lindsay Clancy is found criminally responsible for the deaths of her three children?

Senior investigative reporter and host of “Criminally Obsessed” Anne Emerson compares the Lindsay Clancy trial to the Andrea ...

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.

A Massachusetts mother charged in the killing of her children goes on trial on Monday. The small coastal town of Duxbury is preparing to relive a case focused on postpartum mental health. By Jenna ...

Attorneys for Andrea Yates are preparing for the start of the second phase of her murder trial. It will determine if Yates will get the death penalty or life in prison. That guilty verdict ended the ...

“She's not a monster,” says Rusty Yates. “I hope people can know that about her — that she's just a wonderful, accomplished person, caring, loving, who suffered immensely because of this" Andrea Yates ...

Several states are considering a ban on capital punishment for people with mental illnesses or brain injuries. By Shaila Dewan Judge Morris B Hoffman and Prof Stephen J Morse Op-Ed supports sensible ...