Are You There Alone?
The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates
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Are You There Alone?
Narrated by:
Becky Ann Baker
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Narrated by:
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Becky Ann Baker
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Suzanne O'Malley
Summary
An Unspeakable Crime by investigative journalist Suzanne O'Malley, previously published as Are You There Alone?, investigates the Andrea Yates case and the devastating intersection of postpartum psychosis, medical treatment, religious extremism, and the criminal justice system. On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her five young children in their family home outside Houston, Texas. The killings shocked the nation and brought widespread attention to postpartum mental illness and the legal definition of insanity.
O'Malley began reporting on the case within hours of the tragedy. Drawing on extensive medical and court records and interviews with more than 120 people—including Andrea Yates, her husband Rusty Yates, relatives, friends, physicians, and preacher Michael Woroniecki—she reconstructs Andrea's deteriorating mental health, repeated psychiatric hospitalizations, and the religious teachings that influenced her delusions. Her investigation examines failures in Andrea's treatment and the decisions surrounding her care before the killings.
The book chronicles Yates's controversial first trial, her conviction for three murders, and her sentence of life in prison. That conviction was later overturned after prosecution psychiatrist Park Dietz gave false testimony about a nonexistent Law & Order episode that he suggested had inspired the crime. At her 2006 retrial, Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a Texas state psychiatric hospital.
This new edition includes an introduction comparing the Yates case with the Lindsay Clancy case, along with previously undisclosed information from O'Malley's correspondence with Andrea during her imprisonment.
Both a deeply reported true-crime investigation and an examination of severe maternal mental illness, An Unspeakable Crime explores how psychiatric care, religious influence, media scrutiny, and the courts shaped the Andrea Yates case—and the lives forever changed by it.
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