Andrea Yates Appeal Sustained

Texas Criminal Court of Appeals rfused to take up the ruling of a lower court that the faulty testimony by Dr. Deitz, that Ms. Yates had planned to murder her children when inspired by an episode of Law and Order. The case is remanded for a new trial. Conventional wisdom is that Harris County will seek a plea bargain. www.chron.com see the news section

Andrea Yates is featured in the Driftwood song, "50 Dollars 50 Cents" Please go to Snake Farm at the band site and see the news clips.

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I had known Elaine Bray Shook, the "Corpus Christi Occult Slayer." She drown her two toddlers in Corpus Christi Bay (in 1990?) because God told her to. The Devil was in those babies. She plead insanity and won. She was in the State Hospital and released in 1993. The odd thing is that she had previously jumped in a fetid canal in Massachusetts with her 1 1/2 baby in 1988. The baby was taken from her by Mass. CPS. She just started over again in Texas.

She killed herself in 1997.