Andrea Yates Case Summary

On July 15, 2008 a two year old girl named, Caylee Marie Anthony was reported missing from her Orlando Florida home. The call made by her grandmother to the authorities said that she had not seen Caylee for 31 days and that there was a foul smell in Caylee’s mother, Casey Anthony’s car similar to a dead body. She also reported that Casey stole the family’s car and money. There were several false statements given about the whereabouts of the child of which were eventually put to an end. The body of the child was found in a blanket and ruled a homicide due to the presence of duct tape. The trial lasted six weeks and the death penalty was asked for by the prosecution. Casey Anthony did not testify and the jury found Casey not guilty of first degree murder, aggravated child abuse, and aggravated manslaughter of a child but guilty of four misdemeanor counts of giving false information to the law enforcement. She was sentenced to four years in jail in which included time that she already served. She was also fined 1,000$ per count. She served three years and one day.

Andrea was delusional and did not have the mental capacity to foresee how her actions were really going to affect not only the lives of her children but also the lives of the people around her. She was convinced that if she killed her children, she would be giving them a better life and not horrifically ending the life they had. It was obviously a selfish irrational act however as hard as it is to comprehend it was done so with unselfish intentions. She was suffering from post partum depression, which altered her mindset causing her delusions. In Jeffrey Dahmers case, he knew full

After close review and careful analysis of the case of Andrea Yates and the circumstances which led to the drowning death and murder of her five children, I first would like to state my personal opinion on the conclusion of the case which was the majority consensus at the time of her trial and sentencing. She was guilty of a horrible murder and although certainly had mental problems, which is apparent by her actions that most completely rational thinking human being and mother would be incapable of committing, and expertly

On December 1, 2015, 65 year-old Loretta Macpherson arrived at the emergency room of St. Charles Health System, located in Bend, Oregon. Ms. Macpherson arrived to the emergency room complaining of anxiety. When interviewed about her medication history, Ms. Macpherson was unable to identify the medications which she had been prescribed after her recent hospitalization at St. Charles for brain surgery. After examination, the emergency room physician ordered fosphenytoin, an anti-seizure medication, to be administered via intravenous infusion to Ms. Macpherson. In error she received rocuronium, a paralytic drug, causing her to stop breathing and suffer a cardiopulmonary arrest. Ms. Macpherson suffered irreversible brain damage and was placed

Louise Gosselin has undergone a life of many obstacles. She struggled with drug and alcohol addiction, as well as psychological problems. As a result of this she has been in and out of numerous jobs of various nature. For the majority of her adult life she has received social assistance. When Quebec decided to change its existing social assistance scheme in 1984, Louise felt her constitutional and provincial rights were violated, resulting in her pursuit of legal action. This is how the case of Gosselin v. A.G. (Quebec) came to be.

Casey Anthony is an Ohio-born and Florida-raised woman that had a daughter named Caylee Anthony be born on August 9, 2005. In the summer of June 2008, following a major argument with her parents, Cindy and George Anthony, who were questioning her suitability as a mother figure, Casey left her parents’ home with Caylee. Over the next couple of weeks, Cindy kept reaching out to Casey concerned about both her and Caylee’s whereabouts. Every time Casey was inquired about Caylee, she would report that Caylee was out under the care of her nanny, Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez. Nothing seemed amiss until July 13, 2008 when George and Cindy received a notice that Casey’s car was currently being held in a tow yard. Upon their arrival to pick up the car,

The stories about Andrea being insane and having a psychological disorder do not prove to be true. According to Dr. Puryear, “Mrs. Yates was insane at the time driven by delusions that they were going to hell and she must save them.” If her doctor was aware of her status before all this happened, why did he let her be at home? Yates should have been helped and treated, since Dr. Puryear claims she had suffered from psychotic delusions. Dr. Puryear said “This woman did not now right from wrong,” as he stated to Court Television Network, on February 2,2002. It is somewhat strange how Mr. Yates claims he had no suspicions of her being unhealthful in the mind. What kind of married couple will not be able to detect this in their partner? Some of the jurors believed Andrea was mentally ill, but they also believed that she knew right from wrong. This is a key element in determining if the Andrea meets the legal definition of insanity.

Andrea Yates was a mother of five who lived in a Houston suburb. Andrea suffered from serve postpartum depression and psychosis which unfortunately lead her to drown all five of children in a bath tub one afternoon. Andrea was charged with capital murder and was given life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years. However, she filed an appeal, and her original sentence was overturned, and she was found in innocent in 2006 on reason of insanity. I’m going to explain her upbringing and her mental health influenced her to murdering her children.

On June 20, 2001 a woman by the name of Andrea Yates, stunned the whole country with one of the most bizarre acts of violence that a parents could ever do to their own children. She called her husband at work and told him “I did it” confused by what was going on, he rush home only to find his house filled with officers of the law. The husband asked, “What is going on?”, and only to found out that his wife had drowned all five of their children.

Many people with schizophrenia never learn how to deal with their problems and in the case of Andrea Yates that was one of her problems. Early treatment and therapy could have prevented a tragedy like this one. Denial from her family also plays an important factor in this case. Andrea should have been institutionalized and forced to treatment, way long before she deteriorated in such manner. Her husband was in denial and probably her immediate family too. They are to blame as much as her for this tragedy. A big question will remain forever unanswered. Did Andrea Yates know she was doing something wrong when she drowned her children? Only God and her really know the answer. Personally I believe she knew she was doing something wrong. She just didn’t know how to deal with it. Having schizophrenia or a psychotic sickness does not exempt anyone from doing bad things. I guess living for the rest of your life knowing you killed all of your children is punishment enough. All we can learn from this case is that the main goal is help the person with schizophrenia learn to sort out the real from the unreal and hopefully with the advances in today’s science there will be better treatment in the future.

One of the most controversial and polemic trials of all times since the OJ Simpson trial was the case of Casey Anthony and the murder of her two year old daughter. All the evidences and witness revealed that she was the main suspect in the murder of her daughter; however in 2011 she was found not guilty of this murder due to several different aspects. This paper will inform and provide the reader with detailed information about this case. In addition the reader will find out what was the outcome of this case and will provide the evidence and will summarize the criminal procedures that occurred from arrest through appeal. The elements of the crime and the evidence which prove that she was guilty will be

Yates traveled state to state, carjacking people along the way, and eventually arrived back to Chicago where he began to look for his sister, Nellie Carr. During this time he started using the spyware on Lindsay’s phone to keep tabs on the investigation. Yates arrives at an apartment complex, finds the apartment his sister owns, and knocks on the door. Yates eventually charms his way into the apartment and brutally killed all of Nellie’s roommates who were nurses, searching for her. When he didn’t find her at her home, Yates went to her job where he asked a couple of students where she was and they informed him she was covering class and was headed to the parking lot. While he waits he called Lindsay spoofing her mom’s phone number and Lindsay ignores it. When Yates found Nellie, he kidnapped her and left another note taunting Lindsay and revealing he knew she was at the station. He starts interrogating Nellie about her past and keeps mentioning how everyone needs a home.

In 2001, Andrea Yates, a Texas mother, was accused of drowning her five children, (aged seven, five, three, two, and six months) in her bathtub. The idea of a mother drowning all of her children puzzled the nation. Her attorney argued that it was Andrea Yates' untreated postpartum depression, which evolved into postpartum psychosis that caused her horrific actions (1) . He also argued that Andrea Yates suffered from postpartum depression after the birth of her fourth child, and that she attempted suicide twice for this very disorder ((1)). What is postpartum depression, and how can it cause a mother to harm her very own children, altering her behavior towards her children in a negative way? One in ten women

The case selected for this paper is that of the unsolved murders of a family of eight in Pike County, Ohio on April 22, 2016. Eight members of the Rhoden family were found shot in the head, execution style, at four separate crime scenes, also found at the crime scenes were three small children; a four-day old newborn baby, a six-month-old and a three-year-old, all three children were unharmed (Valencia, 2017). Per news reports, seven of the eight victims were in three homes while the eighth victim was found in a fourth home with the unharmed newborn baby (Valencia, 2017). The murders occurred during the night with all eight victims being murdered in their beds as they slept. The victims ranged in age from 16-years-old to 44-years-old and were

Shortly after her father passed away in March 2001, Andrea was admitted to another hospital. She was treated briefly by her psychiatrist, Dr. Mohammed Saeed. Saeed also prescribed Haldol to Andrea claiming that she did not seem psychotic. After her release she sub-sequentially returned a few months later in May. After 10 days, Andrea was released yet again. Her follow-up visit with Dr. Saeed consisted of his telling her to consider seeing a psychologist and to think positive thoughts. Rusty had arranged for his mother to come over and help Andrea with the children after he left for work for several days after she was released from the hospital. On the second day Andrea decided