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Andrea Yates was born Andrea Pia Kennedy in Houston, Texas, the youngest of the five children of Jutta Karin Koehler, a German immigrant, and Andrew Emmett Kennedy, whose parents were Irish immigrants. Yates suffered from bulimia and depression during her teenage years, and at age 17 spoke to a friend about suicide. [1]
In 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her five kids, an act that some believe was due to postpartum depression. Her then-husband forgave her. Now, a recent case in Massachusetts mirrors the Yates' incident.
A year earlier, she had told her fellow churchgoers that the world was coming to an end and that God had told her to get her house in order. Later on, she told a psychiatrist that she hoped she and Andrea Yates would end up working together as God's only witnesses at the end of the world. [1]
Andrea Yates, the 36-year-old Texas mom who killed her five children in 2001 and was found not guilty by reason of insanity, waived her competency review. Andrea Yates, the 36-year-old Texas mom ...
There, she was a roommate of Andrea Yates, a Texas woman who had drowned her five children in a bathtub. [9] During the trial, much attention was drawn to Schlosser and her husband attending Water of Life Church, a charismatic church pastored by Davidson. She had been taking antipsychotic drugs for several years prior to Margaret's death.
It's where 37-year-old mom Andrea Yates (pictured below right) drowned her five children -- including her 6-month-old daughter -- in a bathtub in 2001. Yates was later convicted of murder and ...
A woman accused of killing her three children has put a spotlight on a rare condition that advocates say is shrouded in shame, often preventing treatment.
While suffering from severe postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, and schizophrenia, Andrea Yates drowned her five children in their bathtub on 20 June 2001. She was sentenced to life imprisonment before being found not guilty by reason of insanity , after which she was moved to the North Texas State Hospital , a high-security mental ...