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Maternal Madness . . .or sheer iniquity? Mothers who kill.(Andrea Yates)
macbeth: How does your patient, doctor?
doctor: Not so sick, my lord,
As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies
That keep her from her rest.
Was Andrea Pia Yates sick when, on the morning of June 20, shortly after her husband left for work, she drowned her five children in the family bathtub? Respectable members of the medical profession certainly think so. Mrs. Yates had been on prescription antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs (which are much stronger), and had been hospitalized twice for depression since her fifth child was born, six months before the killings.
If she was sick, it is at any rate plain that the ...
- OBSERVER: Susan Smith
- Newspaper article from: Filipino Express, The L. Coronel Victoria August 13, 1995 700+ words
...insisted, the drowned children were the victim, not...wasn't the verdict." Susan Smith, the convicted child murderer, will spend...anyone, even an insane Susan Smith, live with the burden of her children's murder in her conscience...
- Jurors begin hearing evidence on whether Susan Smith should live or...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Riddle, Lyn July 24, 1995 700+ words
...the nine days the children were reported missing...around the clock after Susan Smith reported her children had been carjacked...in Columbia, said Susan Smith seemed calm, never...including one from a child who sent his $1 allowance...
- Observer: Susan Smith's tragedy
- Newspaper article from: Filipino Express, The L. Coronel Victoria November 27, 1994 700+ words
...tragedy. News reports of Susan Smith's ghastly deed makes...the town's residents, Susan Smith, has confessed to killing...do understand which is child abuse: parents who can...and soul-searching, Susan Smith had gone on television...
- Susan Smith's ex-mother-in-law's hubby recalls he was a suspect in case; waits...
- Magazine article from: Jet August 7, 1995 700+ words
...1994). Benson said Susan Smith's claim that she had...who was married to Susan Smith; and the grandmother of the couple's two children. Benson said when his...nearly killed his wife. "Susan Smith robbed the world of two...
- Susan Smith Book Proposal May Be Fake; Agent Circulates Idea, but Lawyer Says...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post David Streitfeld August 2, 1995 700+ words
...proposal to publishers for a book by Susan Smith, but the convicted murderer's lawyer says it's "completely bogus." "Susan Smith is not writing a book, is not cooperating...sources have told me that within hours Susan Smith will be sentenced to death." David...
- As Susan Smith's trial nears, dark side of her life and Union, S.C., comes to...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Sennott, Charles M. December 29, 1994 700+ words
...tabloids that screamed: ``Baby Killer Susan Smith's Chilling Confession'' and...Smith added. Two months after Susan Smith by her own admission strapped her sons...good a story. But the dark secrets of Susan Smith's life in Union _ two reported suicide...
- SUSAN SMITH FOUND A READY-MADE SCAPEGOAT.(PERSPECTIVE)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) November 13, 1994 700+ words
...would not have taken the children. He would have taken the woman, but not the children.'' The talker, of...was talking about how Susan Smith of Union, S.C...s figuring about the Susan Smith case was how he spoke...women, but not white children. I marveled that this...
- Susan Smith's Story Didn't Fool Everyone
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Richard Roeper November 7, 1994 700+ words
...knows where these children are," she said...nation duped by Susan Smith? Hardly. Disgusted...bogeyman; but Susan Smith did little to fuel...pathetic life of Susan Smith. She is a small...insane thing to her children. Mourn for them...
