Why the Lindsay Clancy Trial Is Making Everyone Re-Examine Andrea Yates 25 Years Later

More than 25 years after the Andrea Yates case shocked America, her name is being discussed again during the ongoing Lindsay Clancy trial.

In 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her five children in their Houston home following a documented history of severe mental illness, psychiatric hospitalizations, suicide attempts and psychosis. She was initially convicted of capital murder, but that conviction was later overturned. At her second trial in 2006, Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Now, the Lindsay Clancy trial is raising some of the same difficult questions surrounding postpartum mental illness, psychosis and criminal responsibility.

In this episode of True Crime Recaps, Chris looks back at Andrea Yates' psychiatric history, the warnings before the tragedy, the controversial expert testimony that helped overturn her first conviction, and why her case is being discussed again more than two decades later.

The circumstances and evidence in the Andrea Yates and Lindsay Clancy cases are different. Lindsay Clancy has pleaded not guilty, and her case remains ongoing.

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