Court TV Documentary Explores the Controversial Case of Houston Housewife Andrea Yates.Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 8, 2002 Mugshots: A Mother's Madness -- Andrea Yates Andrea Pia Yates (born July 2, 1964) committed the filicide of her five young children on June 20, 2001 by drowning them in the bathtub in her house. Convicted of first degree murder in 2002 and sentenced to life in prison with parole possible after 40 years, Yates' conviction was Premieres Monday, October 28th at 10 PM ET/PT Court TV examines this year's controversial case of Andrea Yates, the Houston housewife who drowned her five children, in Mugshots: A Mother's Madness -- Andrea Yates, premiering Monday, October 28th at 10 PM ET/PT. In this compelling episode of Mugshots, Court TV explores what may have driven Andrea Yates to commit this indescribable tragedy that shocked the nation. Through one-on-one interviews with members of the prosecution team, Yates' lawyers, the psychiatrists This list includes notable psychiatrists. Individuals listed below are all physicians, and are board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, or are members of the American Psychiatric Association, or the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the United Kingdom, or who examined her, and her friends and family, the documentary looks at her history of mental illness and other influences that could have led to this unspeakable act. In A Mother's Madness -- Andrea Yates, Court TV also speaks with an author who researched this case extensively and interviewed Rusty rust·y adj. rust·i·er, rust·i·est 1. Covered with rust; corroded. 2. Consisting of or produced by rust. 3. Of a yellowish-red or brownish-red color. 4. Yates shortly after his wife was charged with murder. This episode of Mugshots gives viewers an in-depth look at the tragedy and reveals how the jury determined that Yates was criminally responsible for her acts. Mugshots: A Mother's Madness -- Andrea Yates traces Yates' life from a seemingly normal childhood to an increasingly troubled motherhood. She grew up in a stable household, was high school valedictorian and graduated from college with a nursing degree. Yates met her husband Rusty while living in Houston and they were eventually married. It was after the birth of her first child that she began to show signs of mental illness. In the 1980s, the Yates' met Rev. Michael Woroniecki, who became their spiritual advisor and whose letters to the couple may have contributed to Yates' downward spiral. As her condition worsened, Yates suffered a nervous breakdown nervous breakdown n. A severe or incapacitating emotional disorder, especially when occurring suddenly and marked by depression. nervous breakdown and tried to take her own life twice. Her family sought psychiatric psy·chi·at·ric adj. Of or relating to psychiatry. psychiatric adjective Pertaining to psychiatry, mental disorders help, but her health continued to deteriorate de·te·ri·o·rate v. 1. To grow worse in function or condition. 2. To weaken or disintegrate. . Andrea Yates spent most of her life battling mental illness, leaving police and the public to ponder Ponder - A non-strict polymorphic, functional language by Jon Fairbairn <jf@cl.cam.ac.uk>. Ponder's type system is unusual. It is more powerful than the Hindley-Milner type system used by ML and Miranda and extended by Haskell. whether she was a cold-blooded killer or if her actions were a result of a severe mental disease. Mugshots, a Court TV original series, takes viewers inside the criminal mind. Mugshots: A Mother's Madness -- Andrea Yates was produced by Parco Productions for Court TV. John Parsons John Parsons could refer to:
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