Andrea Yates
Sign in to saveAndrea Pia Yates is an American woman from Houston, Texas, who confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub on June 20, 2001. The case of Yates—who had exhibited severe postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, and schizophrenia in the years leading up to the murders—placed the M'Naghten rules, along with the irresistible impulse test for sanity, under close public scrutiny in the United States.
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- 1964-07-02
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- 2 July 1964
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- female
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- United States
- Place of birth
- Hallsville
- Religion
- Christianity
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1964 births2001 in TexasAmerican people of German descentAmerican people of Irish descentAmerican prisoners sentenced to life imprisonmentChild filicides in the United StatesCriminal trials that ended in acquittalFilicides in TexasInfanticideLiving peopleOverturned convictions in the United StatesPeople acquitted by reason of insanity