Then she dialed her husband Rusty and told him that he needed to come home. She wouldn’t specify what had happened, only that the police needed to come immediately. When they were all dead, she dialed 911 and “unemotionally” answered the dispatcher’s questions. And during that hour, Andrea murdered all five of their children. His mother was going to show up and watch everyone an hour after he left. But Rusty said he felt this approach had limited Andrea’s rehabilitation, so he started leaving her unsupervised for an hour every morning and evening. Within the space of an hour, all five of Andrea Yates’s children were dead.ĭue to her prolonged spates of mental illness and psychotic episodes, Andrea’s husband Rusty had been warned not to leave her unsupervised. I don’t know if he was saying, ‘I’m sorry,’ or what.Īndrea took Mary’s tiny corpse, placed it lovingly in John’s arms on the bed, and left Noah floating in the tub this time.
It was like ‘I’m sor-,’ and I didn’t hear the rest. I don’t know how many minutes it was or anything….When came up out of the water and said something, but I didn’t know what it was. I put in the water until he stopped breathing. According to Andrea, Noah was the only of her five children to put up a struggle: Sensing danger, he darted away, only to be chased and captured by his mother. It was then that seven-year-old Noah, the oldest of the five children, entered the bathroom and asked what was wrong with Mary. Andrea drowned Mary next and left her floating in the tub. The youngest child, six-month-old Mary, had been nursing on a bottle when her other three brothers were killed. And then it was five-year-old John’s turn to be drowned and carefully placed in bed next to his dead siblings. Next came Luke, two, who received the same treatement as Paul. She then tucked his body in her bed and place his head on a pillow. She started with three-year-old Paul, AKA “Perfect Paul,” who was apparently her favorite because he was the “least trouble.” It took only moments to drown Paul to death. While her children were eating breakfast in the kitchen, she peeled them off one by one and took them into the bathroom to meet their maker. Shortly after her husband Rusty left for work, Andrea-who’d been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years based on suicide attempts spurred by intense postpartum psychosis-filled the bathtub with water. On the morning of June 20, 2001, mother-of-five Andrea Yates of Houston, TX, drowned all of her children one by one in her bathtub.
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