Andrea Yates was experiencing postpartum psychosis when she drowned her children in 2001. She was remanded in 2007 to a mental hospital Courtesy of Yates Family/Getty At the beginning of one of ...

CNN reported that Andrea Yates received a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. However, in January 2005, the Texas First Court of Appeals reversed her conviction after a ...

An inmate at a California jail was sexually assaulted and choked to death by his cellmate as the victim pressed a panic ...

When the judge is the son of the county sheriff, it's safe to say that criminal defense lawyers aren't going to have the most optimistic feelings heading into court. But 338th District Judge Brock ...

The man who killed Brandon Yates was known to be violent, and was already classified as “keep separate” — not to be placed in a cell with another person.

Andrea Yates was experiencing postpartum psychosis when she drowned her children in 2001. She was remanded in 2007 to a ...

At the beginning of one of the nation’s most high-profile murder trials in 2002, prosecutor Joseph Owmby told jurors that Andrea Yates had spent two years planning to kill her five young children.