Andrea Yates
(1964-)
American woman who murdered her 5 children by drowning them in her neighbor's bathub in 2001
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Andrea Pia Yates (née Kennedy; born July 2, 1964) 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 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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Andrea Pia Kennedy Yates 2 July 1964 (age 61) Houston, Texas, USA
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