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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

BREAKING POINT-Suzy Spencer

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

True Crime, News Commentary, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2015

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

One day, Andrea Yates was a loving mother. The next, the nation was shocked by the death of her five innocent children...


The 911 call that shocked the country. "I just killed my children." Why were they killed?


On June 20, 2001, in a middle-class Houston suburb, Andrea Yates and her husband Russell, a NASA engineer, prepared for the routine week-day ahead. But before the morning was over, tragedy would strike the quiet family and turn the day into a nightmare. Shortly before 10 a.m., Andrea calmly summoned the police with a grim confession...


One by one, Andrea Yates' children, ages 6 months to 7 years, had been drowned in their bathtub. No one who knew Andrea could picture the devoted mother capable of such an unbelievable crime or imagine the terror in the eyes of her trusting children. As their father struggled between overwhelming grief and loyalty to his imprisoned wife, an outraged nation struggled with an unfathomable question...

Breaking Point provides a harrowing portrait of the suffocating darkness at the heart of one all-American family, and exposes the private demons that pushed a mother over the edge. BREAKING POINT-Suzy Spencer

Transcript

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0:00.0

Locked Holt Veya.

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You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in True Crime History

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and the authors that have written about them.

0:18.8

Gacy, Bundy, Domer, The Night Stalker, BTK, every week, another fascinating author talking

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about the most shocking and infamous killers in True Crime History.

0:31.0

True Murder with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufansky.

0:46.0

Good evening.

0:47.8

One day Andrea Yates was a loving mother.

0:51.3

The next, the nation was shocked by the death of her five innocent children.

0:57.0

The 911 call that shocked the country.

0:59.5

I just killed my children.

1:02.5

Why were they killed?

1:04.6

On June 20, 2001, in a middle class Houston suburb, Andrea Yates and her husband Russell and

1:10.7

NASA engineer prepared for the routine week day ahead.

1:14.8

But before the morning was over, tragedy would strike the quiet family and turn the day

1:19.1

into a nightmare.

1:20.8

Shortly before 10 a.m. Andrea calmly summoned the police with a grim confession.

1:26.3

One by one Andrea Yates children aged six months to seven years have been drowned in

1:32.1

their bathtub.

1:33.6

No one who knew Andrea could picture to devoted mother capable of such an unbelievable crime,

1:39.4

or imagine the tear in the eyes of her trusting children.

1:43.0

As their father struggled between overwhelming grief and loyalty to his imprisoned wife, an

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