The Yates Children

Noah Jacob Yates 

February 26 1994 - June 20 2001

Age: 7 years old 

John Samuel Yates 

December 15 1995 - June 20 2001

Age: 5 years old 

Paul Abraham Yates 

September 13 1997 - June 20 2001

Age: 3 years old 

Luke David Yates 

February 15 1999 - June 20 2001

Age: 2 years old 

Mary Deborah Yates 

November 30 2000 - June 20 2001 

Age: 6 months old 

All the Yates Children were born to Rusty and Andrea Yates. Andrea had clear mental health problems upto 10 years prior to the death of her 5 young children.

On June 20 2001, Rusty went to work, as usual. Andrea stayed at home with the children. Dora Yates, Rusty's mother, was going to come and care for the children in about an hour.

After Rusty left for work, Andrea began to fill up the bathtub with water. Andrea then called Luke into the bathroom. He was two years old. She held his head under the water until he had drowned. Then she called three year old Paul into the room and drowned him as well.

Next she called in five year old John and proceeded to drown him too. She placed her three dead sons on a bed and covered their lifeless bodies with a sheet. Andrea then retrieved her only daughter, six month old Mary and put her in the bathtub as well.

When Mary had died, Andrea called in her oldest son, Noah. When Noah came into the room, Mary was still dead in the bathtub. Noah came into the bathroom and asked "What happened to Mary?" Noah ran away when Andrea moved toward him.

Andrea chased her oldest son all around the house before she finally caught him and drug him into the bathroom and held his head under the water. Noah put up more fight than her other children, and even managed to resurface a few times for air. Noah's last words were "I'm sorry." Eventually, Noah died at the hands of his mother as well.

Andrea put Mary's body next to her brothers' and covered them all with a sheet. She did, however, leave Noah's body in the bathtub. Andrea then called her husband and told him that she needed him to come home. He asked if anyone was hurt, and she answered "Yes, the children."

He then asked who was hurt, and she answered "All of them.". Rusty returned home to discover all five of his beautiful children dead. When asked why she drowned her children, Andrea answered that it was because she was a bad mother, and by drowning her children, she was saving them from Hell.

Andrea was sentenced to life in prison.