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Andrea Yates: Postpartum Psychosis, System Failure, and a Case America Still Gets Wrong

January 15, 2026·58 min·1 clip
His words became the lens through which she evaluated every thought and action.
When Killers Get Caught revisits Andrea Yates infanticide case (June 2001, five children killed). Deep analysis of decades-long untreated mental illness, postpartum psychosis, religious trauma from fundamentalist preacher Michael Wonecki, spousal control, medical system failure, and how psychosis was misinterpreted as moral failure rather than psychiatric emergency.

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A grave, methodical look at a case where illness, warning signs, and institutional failure collided.

Andrea Yates is presented as more than a single day of horror. The episode reads as a serious look at severe maternal mental illness, missed warnings, and a legal and medical system that was not ready to respond.

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If you want a true crime case about Andrea Yates that asks who failed before the crime happened, start here.

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