Short Suck #10 - Andrea Yates

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On June 20th, 2001, former high school valedictorian, captain of the swim team, and registered nurse, Andrea Yates, coldly drowned all five of her children in a bathtub. Is she a monster.... or also a tragic victim?

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0:00.0	Welcome to this edition of Time Suck Short Sucks.
0:03.4	I'm Dan Cummins and today as is the case with all these short sucks
0:07.2	no announcements no segments no complex show mythology or
0:10.6	inside jokes that require you to hear, you know, many other episodes to
0:14.2	understand this one. Just a story. And today's story is the shocking tale of
0:18.9	Andrea Yates. She once called herself the most hated woman in the world.
0:24.0	And I'd say she was probably right.
0:26.0	On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates killed all five of her children.
0:31.0	She waited until her husband was gone and then systematically drowned them one after another in the
0:36.8	bathtub. Afterwards she called the police and told the responding officer I
0:41.4	killed my kids. She's also probably the one murderer out of all
0:46.7	the ones we have covered now that I have the most sympathy for.
0:51.5	Words and ideas can change the world.
0:54.0	I hated her, but I wanted to love my mother.
0:57.0	I have a dream.
0:58.0	I'll plead not guilty right now.
0:59.0	Your only chance is to leave with us.
1:06.7	Andrea Yates. News of her murdering all of her children, unsurprisingly, quickly spread throughout the entire
1:10.6	country.
1:11.6	In the summer leading up to 9-11, it was definitely
1:14.1	one of America's biggest true-crime stories, if not the biggest. People were
1:18.0	disgusted by Andrea's actions, but she also had many people who strongly
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