Andrea Yates: podcast appearances and interviews

Andrea Pia Yates is an American woman from Houston, Texas, known for her involvement in a case of infanticide that garnered significant media and legal attention. Born on July 3, 1964, she confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub on June 20, 2001. Yates exhibited severe postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, and schizophrenia in the years leading up to the incident, which drew public scrutiny to the legal standards for insanity including the M'Naghten rules and the irresistible impulse test. During her 2002 trial, her case was marked by debates over mental health and the criminal justice system; she was convicted of capital murder, but the jury rejected the death penalty and she was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after forty years. Her conviction was later overturned on appeal due to false testimony by a prosecution witness. Subsequently, a retrial in 2006 resulted in a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity, leading to her commitment to the North Texas State Hospital in Vernon for medical treatment. She was later moved to Kerrville State Hospital in January 2007, a low-security mental health facility in Kerrville, Texas. Her case continues to be noted in discussions of mental health and criminal responsibility in the United States.