Are You There Alone? : The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates
by Suzanne O'MalleyEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-05-24
Publisher(s): Pocket Star
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Summary
On a June morning in a Houston suburb, a 911 dispatcher questioned the caller on the other end of the line:"ARE YOU HAVING A DISTURBANCE?""ARE YOU ILL?""ARE YOU AT 942 BEACHCOMBER?""ARE YOU THERE ALONE?"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 IS THE BOOK THAT INCLUDES THE REVELATION THAT LED TO THE OVERTURNING OF ANDREA YATES'S CONVICTION.The 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.
Author Biography
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.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | |
| Timeline | |
| Prologue | |
| The Prophecy | |
| Rocket Fuel | |
| The Apocalypse | |
| Thursday | |
| The Catchers and the Keepers | |
| Five Small Coffins | |
| Jailed | |
| The Death of a Butterfly | |
| The Full Extent | |
| Four Days to Sanity | |
| Other Voices | |
| The Killer Rooms | |
| Trial by Error | |
| Slow Guilty | |
| Heartbreakers | |
| A Sinister Stew | |
| Eternity | |
| Afterword | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Interview | |
| List Testimony | |
| List Organizations | |
| That Can Provide More Information | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Excerpts
Prologue
I can tell you with certainty that on June 18, 1999, at precisely 1:30 in the afternoon, Andrea Yates had been quietly sitting in the dayroom of the Methodist Hospital and fifteen minutes earlier she had been sleeping in her hospital bed. That on August 5, 1999, she sat with her consulting doctor at Memorial Spring Shadows Glen Hospital and said no to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). I can tell you that on April 4, 2001, at 1:00 in the afternoon, she was drinking Carnation Instant Breakfast mixed with chocolate milk through a straw. That nurses watched every day as her husband came to the hospital and tried to feed her the same drink. I can tell you that on May 5, 2001, she went to group therapy and said nothing. When she got a little better, she introduced herself in group as "Andrea, Depression." At 9:00 am on June 20, 2001, she was sitting at her kitchen table in suburban Houston uncharacteristically eating Corn Pops out of the box while her children watched morning cartoons. Between 9:00 am and 9:45 am the same day, she went into her guest bathroom and, calling her children to her one at a time, drowned them.
I can trace the steps of her body in exacting detail; knowing the mind of Andrea Yates was the challenge.
Copyright © 2004, 2005 by Suzanne O'Malley
Excerpted from Are You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates by Suzanne O'Malley
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