Andrea Yates: Interesting Info from Jailhouse Informant
- From: "Bo Raxo" <forensics@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 17 Jul 2006 01:36:33 -0700
Usually I discount completely tales from jailhouse informants. But
this one contains details not released to the press, and easily
verified: That 7 year old Noah was so scared, she locked him in the
house, and he threw up out of fear. That she hit his head several times
against the edge of the bathtub to incapacitate him. These details
were easily checked against the m.e. and crime scene reports, so it
seems the inmate at the least had substantive conversations with Yates
about her crimes.
The kid knew his mother was killing his siblings, and that his turn
would come.
Chilling!
A second inmate claims Yates told her the children were just "too
much", and her husband wouldn't let her put them in day care.
The article is from February, the inmate testified in the prosecution's
case in the new trial.
More support for what seems obvious to me: Yates wanted out, and like
so many family annihilators just saw the children as extensions to
herself, not seperate people really. She removed them as one might
have an appendix or other unwanted bit of flesh removed
BTW, keep in mind that Yates, the woman who said she "deserved to be
punished", rejected a plea deal that would have resulted in a 35 year
sentence. See folks, you can suffere from mental illness, *and* be
cunning and calculating, too. Yates is, to me, living proof of that.
Bo Raxo
http://abcnews.go.com/US/LegalCenter/wireStory?id=1656353
HOUSTON Feb 24, 2006 (AP)- Andrea Yates once advised a fellow inmate
that she could escape prosecution by pretending to be mentally ill and
persuading a psychiatrist she suffered from serious disorders,
according to court documents filed Thursday by prosecutors.
Felicia Doe, who spent four days in a jail block with Yates in 2002,
told prosecutors last year that Yates instructed her not to eat, not to
speak properly and not to be friendly or open in front of people if she
wanted to "beat her case."
Yates, who is awaiting a new trial in the drowning of her young
children, allegedly told Doe that if she could get the jail
psychiatrist on her side, they could testify to her mental health, and
they couldn't prosecute her if she was sick, according to the
documents, which describe interviews with witnesses who could be called
during Yates' trial.
"According to the witness, the defendant basically told her, 'Do what
I'm doing,'" prosecutor Kaylynn Williford wrote.
Yates' defense attorney, George Parham, called the account "sad and
ludicrous."
"That is absolutely so bogus, it doesn't even deserve a response," he
said. "That discounts the medications that this woman was on, the
mental illness she suffers from."
Yates, 41, has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity.
During her 2002 trial, psychiatrists testified Yates suffered from
schizophrenia and postpartum depression, but expert witnesses disagreed
over the severity of her illness and whether it prevented her from
knowing right from wrong.
A jury rejected Yates' original insanity defense and sentenced her to
life in prison for the drowning of three of her five children ages 7, 5
and 6 months. Evidence was presented about the drowning of two others,
ages 3 and 2, but Yates was not charged in their deaths.
Her convictions were overturned last year based on false testimony by
an expert witness.
Doe, who could not be reached for comment by the AP, also told
prosecutors that Yates disclosed details of the slayings, explaining
that she locked a door so her oldest son, 7-year-old Noah, could not
escape the house and describing him as crying so hard he vomited.
"She hit his head against the bathtub several times in an effort to
incapacitate him," Doe told prosecutors.
Another inmate, Lynnette Licantino, told prosecutors Yates said her
children "were just too much" and that her husband at the time, Russell
Yates, would not let her put them in day care, according to the
documents.
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