Overview
- Rusty Yates, 61, says he visits his ex-wife about once a year and stays in touch by text and phone.
- Andrea Yates drowned their five children on June 20, 2001, at the family’s home in Clear Lake, Texas.
- When police arrived, she confessed, telling officers, “I just killed my children.”
- Convicted in 2002 and later retried, she was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2006 after her initial verdict was overturned.
- She remains in a Kerrville, Texas mental health facility and reportedly still expresses delusional beliefs, as a three-episode docuseries about the case streams on HBO Max.