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1 online resource. |
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St. Martin's true crime library |
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St. Martin's true crime library.
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Summary |
From the New York Times bestselling author of THE FORTUNE HUNTER Andrea Yates, a suburban Houston mother of five, horrified the nation on June 20, 2001, when she dialed 911 and said, "I killed my children." While her husband Rusty, a NASA engineer, was at work, Andrea filled the family bathtub with water and systematically drowned their children, ages six months to seven years. As her eldest child lay lifeless in the bathtub and the bodies of her four youngest rested in her bed, Andrea, a devoted Christian wife and former nurse, called the police to confess her sinches The investigations by the prosecutors, by the defense, and by the press delved deeper into Andrea's mind and history, revealing a disturbing web of suicidal tendencies, depression, and psychoses. While her husband struggled between his overwhelming grief and his loyalty to his incarcerated wife, an outraged nation asked one question after another: How could anyone do this? What would drive a mother to kill her children? Drawing from hundreds of hours of interviews, court testimony, and medical records, including new access to psychiatric and legal files, BREAKING POINT traces the story of an all-American family struggling with the darkness of a mental illness that twisted a loving mother into a killer obsessed with hellfire. This new edition of BREAKING POINT has been updated throughout. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Yates, Andrea.
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Infanticide -- Texas -- Houston -- Case studies.
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Filicide -- Texas -- Houston -- Case studies.
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Women murderers -- Texas -- Houston -- Case studies.
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Postpartum psychiatric disorders -- Texas -- Houston -- Case studies.
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Electronic books.
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hoopla (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9781626818217 (electronic bk.) |
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1626818215 (electronic bk.) |
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MWT11579452 |
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