Birth date: July 2, Birth place: Houston, Texas. Birth name: Andrea Pia Kennedy. Read More. Father: Andrew Kennedy. Mother: Jutta Karin Koehler Kennedy. June 17, - Overdoses on Trazodone, a medication used to treat depression, and is admitted to Methodist Hospital psychiatric unit where she is diagnosed with a major depressive disorder.
July 21, - Admitted to Memorial Spring Shadows Glen for psychiatric treatment after she tries to kill herself. She is treated as an inpatient and later as an outpatient for two months and is prescribed Haldol. She is prescribed strong anti-psychotic medications, including Haldol.
June 20, - Yates drowns her five children, one by one, in the bathtub at their home in Clear Lake, Texas. July 30, - She is indicted on two counts of capital murder and pleads not guilty by reason of insanity. Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Michael Welner testified for the prosecution that Yates carried out an efficient and well-planned murder. She knew it was wrong, Welner theorized, as evidenced by the fact that she kept her homicidal plan private, and did not share the details of her psychoses until after the killings.
Prosecutors theorized that Yates drowned her children to escape the overwhelming stress of raising and home-schooling them. Phillip Resnick testified that Yates believed deeply that killing her children was the right thing to do. Yates, according to defense expert Resnick, believed that Satan had taken over her body and soul and was eyeing her children's souls next.
Yates told Resnick and others who evaluated her in the weeks after her arrest that she believed that, if she killed her children while they were still innocent, they would be sent to heaven and she would have defeated Satan. Yates turned herself in immediately after the drowning deaths, Resnick said, because she thought her own death would fulfill a Biblical prophecy: If she were executed, Satan would be executed.
Resnick diagnosed Yates with schizoaffective disorder, severe depression with schizophrenic symptoms. The jurors in Yates' first trial deliberated for less than four hours to find her guilty. Yates did not understand that verdict and asked her attorneys what it meant. That panel rejected the death penalty and recommended life in prison, which was where Yates was living when she was granted a new trial in January The appeals decision turned on the testimony of the prosecution's medical expert, Dr.
Park Dietz. Prosecutors suggested during her first trial that Yates watched the show and saw it as "a way out. Dietz testified again at her new trial, and reiterated his contention that Yates knew her actions were wrong because Satan was the impetus.
Dietz was barred from testifying about his erroneous testimony in the first trial. During the current deliberations, jurors asked to see evidence related to Park, Dietz and Resnick's evaluations. The foreman told reporters they did not base their decision solely on the testimony of any one expert. The origins of the On March 7, , Continental Congressman John Adams writes three letters to and receives two letters from his wife, Abigail.
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