Mother who drowned children 'weighed alternatives' - witness

Andrea Yates, the mother who drowned her five children while her husband was at work, considered stabbing them but decided it was too bloody.

Mother who drowned children 'weighed alternatives' - witness

Andrea Yates, the mother who drowned her five children while her husband was at work, considered stabbing them but decided it was too bloody.

A psychiatrist told jurors at the Texas murder trial that Yates also ruled out using drugs to kill her children. Dr Melissa Ferguson said she interviewed the Houston mother in jail the day after her children were drowned.

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