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00:12When I watch cult documentaries, I get jealous of their episode two.
00:18They show people, oh, we were all coming together, we're all in this commune, and we're doing yoga together.
00:24We never had that. We never had the episode two.
00:27It's not like the Children of God cult. This is not wild, wild country.
00:35It's this isolating thing where there's no compound for the cult. There's no community to it.
00:43It's people so spread out. Everything revolves around Michael, and when you can't get out, you will never be out.
01:02One of the most heartbreaking tragedies we have ever heard.
01:06Neighbors are understandably stunned.
01:10This mom's actions are a calculated act of evil.
01:14These events are beyond our ability to understand.
01:33I honestly don't know what precipitated Andrew's breakdown.
01:40She never said anything about what she was struggling with.
01:46But, of course, having kids is stressful.
01:50Living in a small space can be extra stress.
01:52But I never really realized that, coupled with her exposure to the Warneckis, could be troubling.
02:03In 1999, a few months after Luke was born, Andrea had another incident.
02:11We were still at Andrea's mother's house, and Andrea had walked off.
02:19I'm like, where's Andrea?
02:23I opened the bathroom door.
02:28And there she is standing, looking at herself in the mirror, with the knife up to her neck.
02:33We have the sacrifice, but where is the offering?
02:37I said, hey, give me the knife.
02:38Faith takes you to that extent.
02:41She just stood there, kind of time.
02:44Faith takes you to that point where you live the knife.
02:49The knife.
02:50The knife.
02:53She didn't actually harm herself.
02:57But she was hospitalized at that point.
03:00The doctors told me Andrea had postpartum depression.
03:06It explained the seriousness of the illness, that women who have postpartum depression can develop postpartum psychoses.
03:16But I didn't know what psychosis looked like, what it meant.
03:21It would have helped a lot to know that, hey, just if you see a person, a loved one, during
03:25that postpartum period, they may not be thinking the way they always think.
03:30And in fact, if they are believing things to be true that aren't, it may be very dangerous.
03:38The doctors gave her some combination of medicines that brought her from off-road back to her normal way of
03:45thinking.
03:46And they said, well, you know, I wouldn't recommend having more children.
03:51One of your own seeds shall be your inheritance.
03:55You must give birth to life.
03:57We asked, hey, what's the risk?
04:01They're like, well, there's 50-50 chance that if she has another child, she'll relapse.
04:07And she'll exhibit the same symptoms and require the same treatment.
04:13It'd be fair to say, okay, well, there was a risk to her.
04:17If she did get sick again, she could try to harm herself again.
04:21But I didn't even think that at the time.
04:23I just thought, okay, she'll get sick.
04:25Worst case, it'll be like a flu.
04:27She'll get treated with the same medicines that were for her before.
04:32And we'll be done.
04:33That's simple enough, right?
04:39Throughout my childhood, Michael had strongly encouraged us to live in a bus like his family.
04:46At this point, my parents were barely paying the bills at a campground, which is $40 a week.
04:53That's almost no money.
04:55So my mom gets a job as an activities director.
04:58And that's the first time we were actually around human beings that were not Michael's kids.
05:07My oldest sister is about 12 years old.
05:11And she meets this girl, Megan.
05:14Heard Megan hit it off like two 12-year-olds would.
05:19We're back in the bus.
05:22And my sister says, you know what?
05:27Megan, I really like Megan.
05:30That was really fun.
05:33And the pH level in the room changes.
05:39My mom overhears this.
05:41My sister saying that she liked another girl.
05:45Having a friend outside, meaning you're letting Satan inside your heart.
05:50You have a connection with a girl that's not in Michael's teachings.
05:55That's not the chosen one.
05:58So then she was in probably the most amount of trouble I've ever seen.
06:04And the word trouble is tame.
06:06She was beaten for an entire day.
06:12That is something that Michael would approve of.
06:16Not only approve of, he would encourage.
06:18Spank them hard so it hurts.
06:22The Bible says wounds scour away evil.
06:27All because she said that she liked another girl.
06:33She liked a friend.
06:45You know, I don't think there's much more of a more beautiful thing in creation that God has given
06:49as a beautiful reflection of what it means to be born again than the butterfly in the cocoon.
07:00So in this pamphlet, bringing the inside out, Michael talks about the butterfly in the cocoon.
07:09God put the metamorphosis of a worm and a butterfly into creation as a most glorious witness to the work
07:19of transformation.
07:21What that means in Michael's terms is that you need to become a butterfly.
07:27Butterfly is you being saved.
07:30These worms are crawling on each other, trying to get to the top.
07:33And finally, this worm just splits on his own.
07:35And you know what?
07:36He starts to spin a cocoon.
07:39And to really get to know God, who's going to make you a butterfly, you have to go into a
07:44cocoon.
07:45So you enter this phase of isolation.
07:58He has purposely designed this system where you were cut off from the rest of the world.
08:04All of your personal relationships, everything that human beings were meant to do here, connection, love, death, all of that
08:14is now revolving around Michael himself.
08:18It's going to be a life of solitude, rejection, persecution, isolation, loneliness, and struggle.
08:30No one ever became a butterfly.
08:41When I graduated college, I was offered a job with General Mills.
08:45General Mills, and I was excited, you know, because General Mills was a Fortune 500 company.
08:52That was my first sale with General Mills.
08:55And they got monster after that, you know, because I was good at what I did.
09:00You know, I have a gregarious personality.
09:01People do like me.
09:03And so I did really well.
09:04On one hand, I had a company car and a salary and a bonus, but on the other side, I'm
09:11feeling guilt, you know, because I've absorbed enough of Michael's teachings that I know a job is wrong.
09:16I know a job is cooperating with Saint, but I have to work, and, you know, I have to earn
09:22an income.
09:23When all your life is consumed with working, there's more to life than at work.
09:30I'm not there.
09:31I'm not getting Mike's approval.
09:32I'm conflicted, and so for the next two years, I embraced getting the tapes.
09:38I was in that learning phase, you know, and I was developing spiritually, understanding more of his teaching, understanding more
09:47of the path I need to go by.
09:51I wanted to learn more.
09:55And then I received a handwritten note from his wife, Rachel.
10:05What I found peculiar, though, was the closing in her note.
10:09She ended with, in Jesus, Michael's servant, Rachel.
10:15I did not understand why she's labeling herself that way, a servant.
10:21But after reading the track, The Witch and the Wimp, I understood.
10:33In The Witch and the Wimp, Michael says that all women, as a result of Eve's disobedience to God, inherit
10:41a witchcraft nature.
10:42All you got to do is look at your mom, look at your sister, look at your neighbor, look around,
10:47the women.
10:49This witchcraft nature seeks to control and dominate men.
10:54And if you are going to be a real man of God, you're not going to tolerate being ruled by
10:59a contentious woman, a witch.
11:01You don't need a cauldron, you don't need a broomstick.
11:03You know, all you need is that little contentious heart.
11:09In that track, Mike revealed the true nature of women.
11:13That explained the way Rachel closed her letter.
11:17She's Michael's servant, not his wife.
11:20After that, I began to see men oppressed by their contentious wives.
11:24Every time I turned on the television, I would see shows like Married with Children or Roseanne, the controlling woman
11:33and the passive man who lets the woman call the shots.
11:37I was seeing witches and wimps everywhere.
11:40I really believed I was seeing that.
11:44It was a very powerful paradigm shift on how you view the relationship of a man and woman.
12:14I love to wear that button because that is my place of security.
12:18When I try to get out of that place or I walk or the contention of my nature, the iniquity
12:23rises up, it's like I'm out of nowhere.
12:26You know, you can't be there and have that.
12:29And, you know, it's not like we're trying to depict a walk in the garden kind of relationship.
12:33You know, it's a constant.
12:35I have to, because of that, when you've seen, I have to constantly confront my wife with her nature constantly.
12:41Because it's wicked.
12:42It's so deep.
12:44Well, teaching-wise, it seems consistent with what they've said in their tracks.
12:52The submissive role, the wife, the man's like the head of the marriage.
12:59I don't agree with that now at all, but at the time, I think I would have agreed with it.
13:10I know we had that kind of in our family.
13:12You know, we had a more traditional family, and Andrea looked to me to make significant decisions.
13:17And I mistakenly would assume that if it's bad for her, she'll speak up.
13:21But looking back, I don't think that's true.
13:26After the knife incident, Andrea was released from the hospital.
13:31And I thought, let's try to get a more comfortable home environment.
13:34So we found a house close to my job at NASA.
13:38Not real big, but just right for us, especially coming out of an RV.
13:43For some number of months after that, she started doing a lot better.
13:47Look at the camera.
13:49Andrea went from being catatonic to up and about, communicative.
13:54Tell us what you're fixing to do.
13:57Be jackrabbit.
13:58You're going to be jackrabbit?
13:59Wait a minute.
14:00Really gave me a lot of hope because I thought, oh, this can work out.
14:04Stimulus can drive millions of people into mental wards, into drugs, into all kinds of false hype and stimulus.
14:12And then by the end of 99, Andrea didn't want to take any more meds.
14:17She's like, I don't want to take any more or anything.
14:19So she stopped.
14:24At the time, going in even to our marriage, we'd said, well, we're going to have how many children that
14:30come along, right?
14:31And right or wrong, that's what we'd decided.
14:35There's the baby.
14:36There's the baby right there.
14:37It was within a year.
14:39The new mother.
14:40Hello.
14:42We got pregnant with Mary.
14:46If the risk of having another child was the flu, that, you know, that was a risk worth taking.
14:54Hi.
14:55Thank you again, man.
14:57Hi.
15:00When I got a promotion to have New Mexico as my whole sales territory, I moved to Albuquerque.
15:07That's where I met a really kind and caring girl.
15:12That was our first date.
15:15I'm not a bad date, you know.
15:17I'm full of devil, but I do a good first date.
15:23She was working on a master's degree at the University of New Mexico, and we quickly became close friends.
15:30About a year later, we became engaged.
15:35I slowly introduced her to Mike by having her listen to some of the tapes.
15:41If you're a woman of God, you will, out of compassion and love for your husband, learn to submit.
15:46Her present initials was that, David, this guy sounds kind of weird.
15:50Your mind is occupied with your wickedness.
15:53The truth is you don't know how bad you are.
15:55I think she even used the word creepy.
15:59Then one day, Mike called me on the phone, and he said we were going to Europe, and it's very
16:05costly to go there.
16:06And so this is how you can wire money to help them with their trip.
16:10And so I did.
16:12In about a 10-year time period, I probably gave Mike and his family a little under $20,000.
16:20During our phone conversation, he asked what was the latest with me, and I just told him that I was
16:25engaged.
16:26And he says, David, you know that's not a wise idea.
16:28And I said, yeah, you know, I'm sorry.
16:31In the heart of every single woman, it's the powerful thwart of Satan to demean, to oppress, to attack the
16:37men of God, to nullify God's word.
16:41Mike teaches that until a man has direct revelation for God, it's not good that he become married, because the
16:48contentious woman will be a distraction.
16:51All I can do is warn you.
16:54The next day or two days after, I called Diane, and I downplayed it.
17:00I told her that in my spiritual development, it's just not a good time for me to be thinking of
17:05marriage or even to be engaged.
17:07So I'm sorry, but we're just going to have to call this off.
17:17After I called out the engagement, I was too numb to feel a thing.
17:22But afterwards, I cried, because she was a wonderful girl, and she loved me.
17:29She really did.
17:36My dad, Mark, when he was out street preaching, he would get in trouble with Michael, because he wouldn't street
17:43preach loud enough.
17:46Michael said that he was beyond saving.
17:50He was a wimp of a man.
17:53It made for a contentious situation, because my dad is naturally submissive and not the alpha in a group.
18:06Michael completely shifted the power dynamics in my family, and my mom and dad stopped talking at this point.
18:14It was very hostile.
18:16Well, so, in 1998, they eventually divorced.
18:22I got too close to the water.
18:25My mom got custody of the five kids, provided that my dad gets custody of the bus.
18:32He takes the bus, and in the bus is all Michael's tapes.
18:36And my mom believed that they were the secret to salvation, the shortcut to heaven.
18:46So, my mom matches a plan, where there's one bus window that doesn't close all the way.
18:52It never closed.
18:53So, my mom has me slip into the bus while my dad is out.
18:58And I steal all of Michael's tapes back, so that we can have those to listen to.
19:11I didn't stay in constant communication with Warniecki.
19:15Living was more about just managing, taking care of the kids, getting everything done.
19:21But I didn't discourage Andrea from writing if she wanted to write.
19:25That's her business, you know, her choice.
19:38Dear Andrea, praise Jesus.
19:41I hope your pregnancy and birth goes good.
19:45We have a new addition to our family.
19:48This is our little girl that was born today.
19:50Mary was born in November 2000.
19:54What do you think about having a sister this time instead of a little brother?
19:57I can't believe it.
20:01But most importantly, that you would come to know Jesus and be able to give him to your children.
20:07Mary was a beautiful little girl.
20:09I held her up and she leaned forward like she wanted to kiss me.
20:12That was the sweetest thing.
20:14I pray for you, Andrea.
20:16For you, Rusty, and your family.
20:18At first, Andrea seemed perfectly fine.
20:21I know things are not the way you would like them to be.
20:24But then a few months after, Andrea just plummeted very quickly down to the state where she was in 99,
20:31which of course raised the flag.
20:34I've seen many women just continually put off their salvation in Jesus.
20:39Her symptoms recurred very quickly.
20:42Jesus knows how wicked you are, how weak and vulnerable.
20:46She went from being kind of what seemed like normal to in a worse state.
20:53I know you're frustrated, Andrea.
20:57She was just staring blankly ahead, had a scissor leg, picking at her hair, not saying anything.
21:05You are accountable for these children.
21:08You can change them.
21:09There will be a day when it is too late.
21:13So I called around to try to see a psychiatrist.
21:16Oh, yeah, we got an opening, six weeks.
21:18I'm like, we don't have six weeks, you know.
21:20I didn't know what to do.
21:22I'm like, who do you call?
21:24Don't look to Rusty.
21:25Look to Jesus.
21:27I was at my wit's end at that time.
21:29If you allow Satan to come in and still be understanding, the consequences will be tragic.
21:39Everything was out of control.
21:42Love in Jesus, Rachel.
22:00By the time I got this booklet, I figured this could really well be my last chance of salvation.
22:06You have got to go through that cocoon, that struggle, all on your own.
22:11There are only eight butterflies on the face of the whole earth.
22:16They all have the last name Warren Ecke, but I was really feeling that I could be the ninth one
22:21and join them in this spirit world of complete joy in Jesus Christ.
22:27The sacrifice is the essence, the center of salvation.
22:32So you have to sacrifice.
22:34And what do you have to sacrifice?
22:36You have to sacrifice yourself.
22:38At this point, I believe I was my most devoted and faithful follower, except one thing.
22:46My job was holding me back.
22:48Please get off your lazy butt, turn away from yourselves, and watch God supernaturally provide.
22:54The test of my faith would be to quit my job, don't worry about how am I going to pay
22:59my bills.
23:00I will now be 100% dependent and faithful that God will provide, somehow.
23:05Everything is work.
23:06You're under a curse, friend.
23:08And so that's when I quit my job.
23:10To deny yourself is the key to victory, because you are your greatest enemy.
23:16I would go to the mountains with my Bible and all of Mike's material, free from distraction, where I could
23:22solely concentrate on finding God and receiving revelation.
23:30I would just pray and ask God, you know, please give me light.
23:34God, you know I want you.
23:38Every night, I'd be begging, pleading, please open my eyes.
23:47But there was no divine encounter.
23:51And so with the little strength I had, but the last vestiges of hope, I just kept trying.
23:59And I was listening to one of his tapes called, As You Live, So Shall You Die.
24:04You don't want to think about what might really be wrong.
24:07At that point, I started shutting down.
24:10You can't do what God requires.
24:13Depression, despair, defeat.
24:16Just so overwhelming.
24:18It was hard to function.
24:20You feel horrible.
24:22All your tears are just crocodile tears.
24:24When you're convinced that everyone lives in satanic delusion, there's no one to turn to for help.
24:29You are a lame man.
24:30You got a C, man.
24:32You're ass sick.
24:33You're left with emptiness and loneliness and nothing.
24:37You want to get what you deserve?
24:40The next thing I know, you deserve help.
24:44I'm sitting there in a chair.
24:48You know, suicide is the ultimate self-obsession.
24:52With a loaded shotgun in my mouth.
24:55You're so grieved that you can't make yourself happy.
25:01Hey, might as well blow my brains out.
25:05Can't make myself happy.
25:09I have Mike mocking me, telling me that I'm worthless, that I'm nowhere, that I'm just projecting false humility.
25:16Oh, I feel so sorry for you.
25:18I just can't follow what he said.
25:20You know, it's Mike Warniecki's fault.
25:22And I was young, so I could take this pain and battle it out.
25:32So I stopped for myself.
25:35If I was 50 years old and had clinical depression, it'd be really hard.
25:40So maybe it was good that I met Mike when I was young.
25:44If I was old, I probably would have really killed myself and died.
25:47Well, I'm sorry, guys.
25:51That's not a warrior.
25:52That's not a person in God.
25:54That's a piece of lard.
25:55That's an unregenerate pagan who doesn't want God.
25:58So I don't know what a doctor would call that, the combination.
26:02Real clinical depression and then spiritual depression.
26:05You got it together.
26:06So, yeah, it was pretty dark.
26:11Oh, there was someone who had that.
26:13Her name was Andrea Yates.
26:14That's right.
26:19You must get right with God before it's too late.
26:22The window of opportunity is closing.
26:26After Andrea's symptoms started getting worse,
26:28I finally got a hold of a mental health hospital in the area.
26:32You only have a limited time to affect those little lives.
26:35Andrea's brother and I carried her to the car
26:37and took her to the hospital.
26:39Teach and discipline the boys.
26:42And she was readmitted.
26:44I called Noah to let her talk with Noah a little bit.
26:49Parents today do not know how to teach their children,
26:52and thus they raise rebels without discipline.
26:55The only thing Andrea said was,
26:57I'm sorry I've been such a bad mom.
27:01First, it's not true.
27:02She was an awesome mother.
27:03Second, it's very out of character
27:05if I was able to say anything like that.
27:15After my suicide attempt,
27:17I didn't break with Michael at all.
27:19I believed that I'd been given a second chance
27:22to live and to find God.
27:26And then one day I received a package that contained a videotape.
27:31I was afraid to watch it.
27:33And it sat on my kitchen table for several days
27:36before I could even muster the courage to put it into the VCR.
27:41My heart was just beating with anxiety when I finally hit play.
27:46You're wrong.
27:48And you must stop and change what you're doing.
27:51No reason for you to have some awkward, uncomfortable feelings of change.
28:03I hear Mike imitating Satan in that creepy voice and that grotesque mask.
28:08I've already been eight years under his teaching.
28:11I felt like I was in a psychological maze.
28:14That's all that matters is what you feel in your own heart about yourself and about God.
28:22After the viewing of the tape, I started imagining the devil speaking to me all the time.
28:30And then soon another package arrived.
28:36Mike sent a message saying that he could meet with me.
28:39I thought because I wasn't progressing, he was coming to my aid, you know, much like a spiritual doctor.
28:45And I envisioned spending hours with him in a park or someplace quiet.
28:50But what I found peculiar was a place he chose to meet.
28:54A McDonald's restaurant, I didn't tell anyone except Richard.
28:59Me and Richard were childhood friends.
29:02We were in the same fraternity.
29:04And so he got exposed to Mike about the same time that I did.
29:09So, me and Richard meet with Michael.
29:12And it changed everything.
29:22This is the first time meeting Michael in person since 1987.
29:26He appeared shifty-eyed or worried, even a little nervous.
29:30And I experienced this immediate wave of conflicted emotion and just figured that the weight of the spirit must be
29:36heavy upon him.
29:38Then I remember Mike telling me, do you remember the opening scene in The Wizard of Oz?
29:45When the farmhouse gets lifted into the powerful winds of the swirling tornado, spinning and spinning in the winds of
29:52delusion.
29:54That's you, David.
29:56You don't even realize you're caught up in those winds of delusion.
29:59In fact, you're more deluded now than ever.
30:02I mean, my lips started quivering and my spirit just shattered.
30:07Richard was even worse news.
30:09He was told there's no hope for him at all.
30:11And then just like that, he walked away.
30:19Me and Richard were stunned.
30:27And then super late that night, I hear a rapid bang.
30:33So I rush to open up the front door.
30:36It was Richard, terrified, shaking.
30:42Just freaked out.
30:43David, I'm going to hell.
30:44You know, what's the point of living?
30:45I might as well just end it now.
30:48He was just convinced under Mike's teaching and Mike's words that he was going to hell.
30:54Let me just go.
30:55Let me get my punishment.
30:57He totally saw no reason to live anymore.
31:00That's in a lot of scary horror movies.
31:02Nothing can compare to the look and fright I saw on Richard's face that night.
31:07It's the most scariest thing you will ever encounter.
31:11No producer, no movie director could get that on film.
31:14You can't act that.
31:15It's a real experience.
31:17It's a spiritual, frightened experience that comes from the very soul.
31:22He scared me.
31:23And I was emotionally exhausted.
31:25Because it took everything I had to convince him to not do it now.
31:32And he's my friend.
31:33I loved him.
31:34He was my childhood friend.
31:36And I know he's going to do it.
31:38Because I know how he feels.
31:40I know.
31:41I know what he's under.
31:45You know, don't do it.
31:47It drained me.
31:49Because I knew he was going to do it.
31:52Knew he's going to do it.
31:53And he's my best friend.
31:58That really, you know.
32:03We talked for hours.
32:05And eventually Richard decided to not take his life.
32:12After my parents' divorce, my mom moved us away to California.
32:17But my mom doesn't really want to reach out to Michael.
32:19Because she's pretty ashamed and has a lot of guilt for leaving my dad.
32:24About two years later, Michael comes back into our life.
32:27And says, God has told us that you're just off track.
32:30You're not spiritually in line with where you need to be.
32:33So you're going to come out with us.
32:35And you're going to answer your preach.
32:36Praise Jesus.
32:37Amen.
32:39Glory to your world.
32:40It's going to hell.
32:42It's going to the lake of fire.
32:44And unless you wake up and repent, you will perish.
32:48So we go out with Michael and all eight kids.
32:52A bunch of fools walking around like stupid blind sheep.
32:58They're headed for hell.
32:59God's going to burn this world.
33:01They're living in sin.
33:03God's going to destroy this earth and all you wretched sinners.
33:06I guess I was old enough to be embarrassed for the first time.
33:10I saw people's reaction to it.
33:12Look, Johnna, wake up.
33:14Wake up.
33:16Wake up.
33:16Jesus Christ.
33:18Wake up.
33:19Wake up.
33:21And then Michael completely dresses my mom down in front of us.
33:26Is a wicked woman.
33:27She's contentious.
33:28She's living a life of sin.
33:31You're so evil.
33:32You're sending your kids to hell.
33:33Because you deserve it.
33:34Because you're your rebellion and your wickedness to a holy God.
33:38Michael had written my mom off because she left my dad.
33:43But my mom was, we got to get back in his good graces.
33:45Her entire life was wrapped up in, does Michael love me?
33:50Does Michael think I'm saved?
33:52So we had to Michael's tapes that we took on the bus.
33:57I noticed a frequency in Michael's tapes being played.
34:01The entire word of God speaks about the last days.
34:05These words are so ingrained in my head.
34:08Not days of revival, but days of intense, powerful deception and delusion.
34:23And I think that's the point with Michael's teachings.
34:29It's such an extreme dogmatic, high stakes.
34:32It's your soul for eternity.
34:34And I think ultimately, and I think she regrets this now, that got in the way of
34:40one of the most pure things in this life, which is a mother's love for their kid.
34:50Andrea was the sickest patient in that building.
34:53I mean, you could just tell she was like, not hardly moving, not responsive,
34:57not communicative.
34:58And then within a week or two, they said, oh, she might do better at home.
35:02Let's try that, which is kind of probably code for your insurance right now.
35:06Time to go home.
35:08When she came home, she was completely out of it.
35:13I didn't know it at the time, but Andrea was having visual hallucinations,
35:18auditory hallucinations.
35:20You must stop and change what you're doing.
35:24And it led to the delusions she had of having the devil in her.
35:28Uncomfortable feelings of change.
35:30No.
35:32No.
35:34But at the time, Andrea didn't tell me what was going on in her head.
35:38And none of us, nobody thought the kids were at any risk at all.
35:43Nowhere on anyone's radar was any possibility of harm to our children.
35:51Andrea Yates called 911.
35:54Once authorities arrived at her home, they found five young children dead.
35:59Andrea Yates confessing to police, she drowned her children one by one in the bathtub.
36:06You see a lot of homicides, but you don't see a scene like that.
36:09Sergeant Randall Beatty never cried in his 16 years in the force,
36:13until he saw the horrors inside this house.
36:16At least I'm nervous, makes my stomach hurt.
36:18Tragedy is an understatement.
36:19I don't believe there are words in any language that can describe what has happened.
36:34After the tragedy, I had a very strange experience.
36:39I had nightmares that some of my children had passed.
36:46Only to wake up and realize they all had passed.
36:50And I'm like, wow, how can reality be worse than your nightmare?
36:56You know, but it was.
36:58I had that happen probably, I don't know, three, four times where I had a dream like that.
37:07And that's tough.
37:27Today, the Yates children were laid to rest.
37:31The eulogy was delivered by Rusty Yates, who shared loving memories of each child,
37:36Noah, John, Paul, Luke, and Mary.
37:41Rusty Yates wanted everyone to know a treasured moment he shared with each of his angels.
37:46This photo with Noah, the oldest, holding a caterpillar,
37:49tells a story of a family vacation to Florida.
37:52He said, Noah squealed when his caterpillar turned into a butterfly.
37:56And here's our butterfly.
37:59Oh, look, he wants to go.
38:02The family pulled off the highway.
38:03He set it free.
38:08This is how I feel now.
38:10I'm setting each child free.
38:13That's the thing that was most shocking to me about it all was just the finality of it.
38:18You know, you do anything to fight for your children, for your family, but it's too late.
38:30What happened was just, you know, incomprehensible.
38:32I mean, I just can't, you know, looking back, you know, I struggled with it all last night.
38:39I couldn't sleep last night.
38:40I was like, you know, is there anything I could have done, you know?
38:43That was a lot at once.
38:44It's like being thrown into a game you've never played, you know, and you're like,
38:48you don't know what to do.
38:49You know, what do you do?
38:50So at the same time, I felt compelled that, okay, I need to do what I can to,
38:57you know, defend Andrea and my family.
38:59I'm torn, one side of me, you know, blames her because, you know, she did it, you know,
39:04but the other side of me says, well, she didn't because that wasn't her.
39:08She went through a postpartum depression with our fourth child,
39:12and it was very serious then, and she had attempted suicide then.
39:19And I'm supportive of her, you know, it's hard.
39:21You know, the woman here is not the woman that killed my children.
39:24So, you know, Andrea, if you see this, I love you.
39:28Right after I defended Andrea, a lot of people were just like, well, if it's not her
39:32because she's mentally ill, it must be that rotten husband of hers.
39:36People can't understand how a man, how a father,
39:40could support his wife after she took the lives of their children.
39:50I took the lot of key for Andrea, but people can think what they want.
39:54They didn't live our life. They didn't sit in the doctor's office.
39:57Then a lot of people were saying, she's the devil.
40:00This is an absolutely evil woman.
40:03Miss Yates truly and intentionally drowned them one by one.
40:07This woman is a beast who committed one of the most horrible crimes I ever heard of.
40:11Hard to believe that a mother could do something like that.
40:14There's this tremendous outcry to give her the death penalty.
40:20The state are pursuing the death penalty in the Andrea Yates case.
40:25The county that sends more people to death row than any place in the U.S.
40:30The entire country, the entire world is like, this woman is evil. She's insane.
40:37But when I first heard the news, I was jealous.
40:45I just need a police officer.
40:52Are you there alone?
40:55No, my kids are here.
40:58I got why she did it. I got why the kids obeyed.
41:03I would have gotten that tough.
41:06So I understood it all.
41:09How are your children?
41:11They're seven, five, three, two, and six months.
41:17So you have five children?
41:19Yes.
41:22She did what she was supposed to do.
41:24Are you having a disturbance? Are you ill or what?
41:27Uh, yes, I'm ill.
41:28You need an ambulance?
41:29No, I need a police officer.
41:32She made the greatest sacrifice.
41:36She was saving her kids.
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