She seemed to be coping well, until the death of her father on March 12, 2001. She stopped taking Haldol in March 2000, and gave birth to her daughter, Mary, on November 30, 2000. Eileen Starbranch, testified that she urged her and Rusty not to have any more children, as it would "guarantee future psychotic depression." They conceived their fifth and final child approximately 7 weeks after her discharge. She was diagnosed with postpartum psychosis. In July 1999, Yates had a nervous breakdown, which culminated in two suicide attempts and two psychiatric hospitalizations that summer. After that, Rusty moved the family into a small house for the sake of her health. Her condition improved immediately, and she was prescribed it on her release. Once again hospitalized, she was given a cocktail of medications, including Haldol, an anti-psychotic drug. Soon after her release, she begged Rusty to let her die as she held a knife up to her neck. She was admitted to the hospital and prescribed antidepressants. The next day, she attempted to commit suicide by overdosing on pills. On June 16, 1999, Rusty found her shaking and chewing her fingers. įollowing the birth of her fourth child, Luke, Yates became depressed. By the time of the birth of their third child, Paul, they moved back to Houston, and purchased a GMC motor home. Their first child, Noah, was born in February 1994, just before Rusty accepted a job offer in Florida, so they relocated to a small trailer in Seminole. They announced that they "would seek to have as many babies as nature allowed," and bought a four-bedroom house in Friendswood, Texas. They soon moved in together, and were married on April 17, 1993. In summer 1989, she met Russell "Rusty" Yates, an engineer, at the Sunscape Apartments in Houston. From 1986 until 1994, she worked as a registered nurse at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Yates completed a two-year pre-nursing program at the University of Houston and graduated from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She was the class valedictorian, captain of the swim team, and an officer in the National Honor Society. She graduated from Milby High School in 1982.
She also had depression, and at 17, she spoke to a friend about suicide. She had bulimia during her teenage years. Yates was born in Hallsville, Texas, the youngest of the five children of Jutta Karin Koehler, a German immigrant, and Andrew Emmett Kennedy, whose parents were Irish immigrants. 3.3 Anti-depressants and homicidal ideation.In January 2007, she was moved to Kerrville State Hospital, a low-security state mental hospital in Kerrville, Texas. She was consequently committed by the court to the North Texas State Hospital, Vernon Campus, a high-security mental health facility in Vernon, where she received medical treatment and was a roommate of Dena Schlosser, another woman who committed infanticide by killing her infant daughter. On July 26, 2006, a Texas jury in her retrial found that Yates was not guilty by reason of insanity. The verdict was overturned on appeal, in light of false testimony by one of the supposed expert psychiatric witnesses. She was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years. She was convicted of capital murder, but the jury refused the death penalty option.
Her case placed the M'Naghten rules, along with the irresistible impulse test, a legal test for sanity, under close public scrutiny in the United States. Chuck Rosenthal, the district attorney in Harris County, asked for the death penalty in her 2002 trial. During her trial, she was represented by Houston criminal defense attorney George Parnham. She had had for some time severe postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, and schizophrenia. Found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2006Īndrea Pia Yates ( née Kennedy born July 2, 1964) is an American woman from Houston, Texas, who confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub on June 20, 2001.
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