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
A Texas woman who allegedly concocted a plan with her boyfriend to kill her ex-husband was found dead in an apparent suicide on Monday — just one day before she was scheduled to appear in court for a capital murder charge, reports say.
Police said 48-year-old Valerie McDaniel jumped to her death from the seventh floor of a high-rise building in Houston, Ktrk reports. Her body was found in the courtyard area near the pool.
“The reportee was someone that either worked inside the apartment complex or condominium complex,” Detective J. P. Villarreal with the Houston Police Department told reporters on Monday.
Police said 48-year-old Valerie McDaniel jumped to her death from the seventh floor of a high-rise building in Houston, Ktrk reports. Her body was found in the courtyard area near the pool.
“The reportee was someone that either worked inside the apartment complex or condominium complex,” Detective J. P. Villarreal with the Houston Police Department told reporters on Monday.
- 3/28/2017
- by Char Adams
- PEOPLE.com
It's been more than 15 years since Andrea Yates drowned her five kids in a bathtub of her suburban home in Houston, Texas. And now, as Yates spends her days in a Texas mental health facility, her attorney says she "grieves for her children." "There's not a day that goes by where she doesn't care for, talk about, is happy about her children's lives before June the 20 and grieves for her children," Yates' defense attorney, George Parnham, told NBC News' Janet Shamlian in an interview aired Thursday, looking back at the case. On that fateful June day in 2001 - June the 20 - Yates drowned John,...
- 9/1/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
It's been more than 15 years since Andrea Yates drowned her five kids in the bathtub of her suburban home in Houston, Texas. And now, as Yates spends her days in a Texas mental health facility, her attorney says she "grieves for her children." "There's not a day that goes by where she doesn't care for, talk about, is happy about her children's lives before June the 20 and grieves for her children," Yates' defense attorney, George Parnham, told NBC News' Janet Shamlian in an interview aired Thursday, looking back at the case. On that fateful June day in 2001 - June the 20 - Yates drowned John,...
- 9/1/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- 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
American Sniper Chris Kyle Murder Trial: Will Ptsd Insanity Defense Help Alleged Killer Eddie Routh?
While American Sniper has experienced tremendous box-office success since its Dec. 25 release, focus is now likely to shift from the film to the trial of Eddie Ray Routh, the former Marine accused of killing the movie's protagonist, real-life sniper Chris Kyle. Opening statements for the trial are set for Wednesday in Stephenville, Texas. After jury selection was completed on Monday, Routh's defense lawyer, J. Warren St. John, introduced his client to the 10 women and two men who have been tapped. "Chris Kyle was a hero," St. John told the jury, according to the Dallas Morning News. "But no matter what you've read or seen,...
- 2/11/2015
- by Dana Rose Falcone, @DanaRoseFalcone
- PEOPLE.com
American Sniper Chris Kyle Murder Trial: Will Ptsd Insanity Defense Help Alleged Killer Eddie Routh?
While American Sniper has experienced tremendous box-office success since its Dec. 25 release, focus is now likely to shift from the film to the trial of Eddie Ray Routh, the former Marine accused of killing the movie's protagonist, real-life sniper Chris Kyle. Opening statements for the trial are set for Wednesday in Stephenville, Texas. After jury selection was completed on Monday, Routh's defense lawyer, J. Warren St. John, introduced his client to the 10 women and two men who have been tapped. "Chris Kyle was a hero," St. John told the jury, according to the Dallas Morning News. "But no matter what you've read or seen,...
- 2/11/2015
- by Dana Rose Falcone, @DanaRoseFalcone
- PEOPLE.com
While American Sniper is earning Oscar nominations and setting box-office records, the man accused of killing Chris Kyle, the Navy Seal played by Bradley Cooper in director Clint Eastwood's film, faces trial for Kyle's murder in just a few weeks. On Feb. 2, 2013, nearly four years after Kyle quit the military, he and his friend, Chad Littlefield, were allegedly shot and killed on a Texas gun range while helping former Marine Eddie Ray Routh, then 25, cope with his Ptsd. Routh's trial is set to begin Feb. 11. "My client will plead not guilty by reason of insanity," Routh's attorney, J. Warren St. John,...
- 1/21/2015
- by K.C. Baker, @kcbaker77777
- PEOPLE.com
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