What is Andrea Yates's middle name?
Pia
What is Andrea Yates's full name?
Andrea Pia Kennedy Yates
Andrea Yates date of birth:
July 2, 1964
How old is Andrea Yates?
62
Where was Andrea Yates born?
Houston, TX
Is Andrea Yates gay or straight?
Straight
What religion is Andrea Yates?
Christian
What is Andrea Yates's ethnicity?
White
What is Andrea Yates nationality?
American
Where did Andrea Yates go to school?
Milby High School, Houston, TX
Where did Andrea Yates go to university?
Nursing, University of Houston , University of Texas School of Nursing, Houston (1986)
What is Andrea Yates's occupation?
Criminal
Andrea Yates claim to fame:
Murdered her five children
Short Biography
Andrea Pia Kennedy Yates (born July 2, 1964) is a former resident of Houston, Texas, who confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub on June 20, 2001. She had been suffering for some time with very severe postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. She was represented by Houston criminal defense attorney George Parnham. Chuck Rosenthal, the district attorney in Harris County, asked for the death penalty in her 2002 trial. Her case placed the M'Naghten Rules with the Irresistible Impulse Test, a legal test for sanity, under close public scrutiny in the United States. She was convicted of capital murder. After the guilty verdict, but before sentencing, the State abandoned its request for the death penalty in light of false testimony by one of its expert psychiatric witnesses. She was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years. The verdict was overturned on appeal.