Yates' 911 call was played for jurors at her trial. The defense pointed out that she sounded disoriented
and unable to explain to the operator why she needed police. When asked if she was alone, Yates
replied, "No, my kids are here." Her defense team says she was in the throes of psychosis.
But prosecutors say Yates knew exactly what she was doing.

Authorities who responded to the scene described Yates as unemotional, unkempt,
and soaking wet. One officer testified that she appeared "worn out" from
drowning Noah, 7, John, 5, Paul, 3, Luke, 2, and Mary, 6 months.

At an emotional funeral service at the Clear Lake Church of Christ, five small white caskets
were adorned with flowers and arranged in a half-circle at the front of the sanctuary.
The children were buried at the Forest Park East Cemetery in Webster, Texas.

Andrea Yates arrives at the Police Station in the town after having drowned her five children in their home.
Andrea Yates,36, has taken medication for depression since the birth of her 2 year old son. June 20, 2001

Medical experts who assessed Yates after the killings testified at her 2002 trial that she believed Satan
 lived inside her and she had to kill her children to save them from her parenting. Yates also
believed that George W. Bush, whom she mistakenly thought was still governor, would
put her to death, thus destroying Satan.

Yates, seen here seconds after the jury found her guilty of capital murder during her first trial,
displayed no emotion when the verdict was read on March 12, 2002. The panel supported
the prosecution's contention that Yates knew right from wrong, and therefore was
not legally insane, when she drowned her children.

Rusty Yates, seen here praying, supported his wife's defense while struggling with the loss
of his children. Rusty became a vocal opponent of the death penalty. The jurors also
rejected the death penalty in Yates' case, and the former mother and housewife was
sentenced to life in prison. But her story was far from over.

Yates' conviction was overturned by an appeals court on Jan. 6, 2005, and a new trial was ordered.
She was transported from prison to the psychiatric unit of a state mental hospital, and later
pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity for a second time.

The first panel's rejection of the death penalty meant Yates faced life in prison,
but not execution, if found guilty by the jurors in her new trial.

Andrea Yates leaves the courtroom after a pre-trial hearing Monday in Houston. (January 9, 2006)
(David J. Phillip / AP)

If the new panel found her not guilty by reason of insanity, Yates would be committed
to a state mental hospital for an unspecified duration. Yates' attorney George
Parnham shakes her hand at a Feb. 1, 2006, bond hearing.