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Postpartum Psychosis - Andrea Yates

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How does the legal system weigh moral awareness against severe psychiatric delusion? The tragedy of the Yates family forced a national reckoning on the M'Naghten legal standard, the vital distinction between postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis, and medical accountability. In this episode of True Crimecast, Jamie and John examine the years of psychiatric breakdown leading to June 20, 2001, the coercive religious teachings of street preacher Michael Woroniecki, the commonalities with the Lindsay Clancy case, the false television testimony that overturned Andrea's original conviction, and the enduring legacy of five young lives lost in a quiet Houston suburb.

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