Are You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates

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Simon and Schuster, 02.02.2004 - 304 Seiten
Suzanne O'Malley takes a close look at the Andrea Yates murder trial and discovers medical misjudgment, professional negligence, misapplied law, and a revelation that led to the overturning of Yates's conviction.

It took a jury less than four hours to find Houston housewife Andrea Yates guilty of the drowning deaths of three of her five children—and a mere half hour to sentence the troubled woman with a stunning history of severe mental problems to life in prison. But beyond the media coverage of her heinous crimes, there is a story that only investigative reporter Suzanne O'Malley has fully illuminated.

This updated edition of Are You There Alone? features a new chapter on the appeal of the Yates case, as well as personal updates on both Andrea and Rusty Yates. Having drawn upon hundreds of interviews—with expert witnesses, close friends, family advisers, and Andrea and Rusty themselves—O'Malley has produced a riveting true-crime account that shatters our notions about criminal law, mental illness, death-penalty politics, and religious fanaticism in America today.
 

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Chapter 1 The Prophecy
1
Chapter 2 Rocket Fuel
26
Chapter 3 The Apocalypse
42
Chapter 4 Thursday
59
Chapter 5 The Catchers and the Keepers
61
Chapter 6 Five Small Coffins
67
Chapter 7 Jailed
75
Chapter 8 The Death of a Butterfly
97
Chapter 13 Trial by Error
136
Chapter 14 Slow Guilty
213
Chapter 15 Heartbreakers
222
Chapter 16 A Sinister Stew
230
Chapter 17 Eternity
243
Acknowledgments
263
Interview List
267
Testimony List
270

Chapter 9 The Full Extent
110
Chapter 10 Four Days to Sanity
115
Chapter 11 Other Voices
120
Chapter 12 The Killer Rooms
127
Index
273
About the Author
283
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Suzanne O'Malley's investigative reports on the Yates trial appeared in the New York Times Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine; and on Dateline NBC. She has written for the New York Times Book Review, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, Salon.com, and Texas Monthly, and has been a producer and consultant for NBC and MSNBC. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in New York City and Houston. Visit www.suzanneomalley.com.

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