“It was the seventh deadly sin. My children weren't righteous. They stumbled because I was evil. The way I was raising them they could never be saved....Better for someone else to tie a millstone around their neck and cast them in a river than stumble. They were going to perish. I was so stupid! Coul…”— Andrea Yates, web.archive.org
“I was afraid if I discussed it that it would happen. If it was—we had spoke [sic] to this treatment and started—he said that Satan can’t read your thoughts. But if you say them aloud, he will hear them and he’ll use them against you. Now, I thought I verbalized these fears that that they would come…”— Andrea Yates, transcripts.cnn.com
“I put him in the water until he stopped breathing. I don’t know how many minutes it was or anything.”— Andrea Yates, transcripts.cnn.com
“Well, I thought I, they had given me some medicine, and I lay down for a nap, and I was kind of in between staying asleep and awake, and I thought I heard some voices come from the wall, and uh, I thought the voices said in a growl, in a gravelly voice, I thought he said, ‘Andrea, come here,’ and I…”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“I had these visions of harming Noah, and so I said, [inaudible] closing in. And I called Rusty at work and told him I needed him to come home. When he came home, I said I needed help, and I meant medical help. He thought I meant help with the children.”— Andrea Yates, transcripts.cnn.com
“Well, they came, and I opened the door, and I told them I killed my children, and I led them down the hall to where they were.”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“The drownings. They, um, I drew up the water, and Rusty had already left for work that day, and I went in the bathroom, and I set Mary on the floor. And while I was filling the tub, Paul came in, and he sat on the tub and he said, he said “Mommy are we gonna take a bath today?” And then he asked aga…”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“Well, doing it would take them to heaven, and not doing it there’d be a risk of Satan messing them up.”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“I...I thought about what I was about to do and how it fit in there, the deadly sins. And how I would have done all of them after I drown my children.”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“Well I thought it was murder, and I felt I had done all the other sins, and now this one would be the last one, the last one of the sins.”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“There was [sic] the thoughts about the TVs, and cameras in the house, and afraid Satan would ruin my children through himself, and that maybe even that I had some Satan in me.”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“Well, I didn’t want them ruined, and I was afraid being around him, they would continue to go downhill. And I thought I should save them before that happened.”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“I didn’t think I was getting better. One time I drew water in the tub, and Rusty worried about that, why I did it, and he took me back in the hospital.”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com