The Cult Behind the Killer: The Andrea Yates Story - Trailer - video Dailymotion

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Follows the Andrea Yates case, exploring how a rogue street preacher's fire-and-brimstone teachings allegedly brought the vulnerable Texas mother under his control, leading to the drowning of her five children in 2001.

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00:00Andrea Yates. Andrea Yates. Andrea Yates confessing to police she drowned her

00:05children one by one in the bathtub.

00:09I'd do anything to save my children and there's nothing I can do. I was

00:14heartbroken.

00:17Everyone was horrified. A mother killed her kids? How could she do this?

00:26When I watch news coverage about Andrea Yates, it's like this woman is evil, she's

00:32insane. They are missing a huge part of the story. Michael Wernicke. Michael

00:41Wernicke was our spiritual teacher. Andrea Yates's religious beliefs were not

00:45mainstream. They called it a cult. This is control. This is fear. This is a ticking

00:52time bomb. The doctors told me Andrea had postpartum depression. Her delusion

00:58about Satan being in her, that may well have come from her exposure to the

01:03Wernicke. If you had not taken their lives, where are they involved? I hope. Andrea Yates was so

01:09pressurized with that struggle for salvation that she had to kill her kids.

01:15Unless you're in it, you don't fully understand the amount of control Michael

01:19Wernicke had over us. How many people are still under his spell? No one knows the

01:25real story. The cult behind the killer. The Andrea Yates story. NID documentary

01:30event. January 6th on ID.

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