He remarried in March and now has two stepsons. Yates, an engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, said he plans to visit his ex-wife regularly, but his role in her life will diminish as he moves on with his own. “I do not think about Rusty Yates I do not want to think about Rusty Yates, and he needs to stop thinking about us,” Owmby said. Prosecutor Joe Owmby said Thursday the state offered no false testimony. * (AP Photo/Brett Coomer, Pool) Brett Coomer / POOL HOUSTON CHRONICLE An earlier jury had found her guilty of murder, but the verdict was overturned on appeal. This psychiatrist stated both to Rusty then and in court later that Andrea was not psychotic and not severely ill enough to need those types of treatments. Yates, 42, will now be committed to a state mental hospital, with periodic hearings before a judge to determine whether she should be released. Rusty did not take her off the Haldol, her psychiatrist did - Rusty actually asked about putting her back it when she got worse, or resuming electroconvulsive therapy, but the doctor refused. Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the 2001 drowning deaths of her children. That’s the only reasonable explanation for her behavior.” ** RETRANSMISSION FOR IMPROVED QUALITY ** Andrea Yates, flanked by her lawyers, George Parnham, left, and Wendell Odom, stands as the verdict in her murder retrial is read Wednesday July 26, 2006, in Houston. “The fact is, they spent five years and still don’t have a reason why she did it because they are unwilling to look at the fact she was psychotic.
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