Are You There Alone?
On June 20, 2001 Andrea Yates drowned her five children, Noah, John, Paul, Luke, and Mary, in their suburban Houston home. Suzanne O'Malley was visiting a Dallas suburb when local news of the drownings broke live from the crime scene. Each of the people and places in those early broadcasts became intimately known to her as she pursued the story. In addition to Rusty Yates and other close friends of the couple, O'Malley broke the story of the secretive preacher named Michael Woroniecki who influenced Andrea Yates.
Andrea Yates is currently serving out her sentence in the Skyview Unit of Rusk Penitentiary in Rusk, Texas. She will not be eligible for parole until the year 2041 when she will be 77 years old. At the time of her imprisonment in April 2002, Andrea Yates had still not been diagnosed accurately or treated with proper medication. After being taken off medication in prison, she fell into deep psychosis in January 2003.
Are You There Alone? will show how madness, death penalty politics, a narrow reading of criminal law, medical misjudgment, and religious delusion infect an all-American family. It has a strong point of view and advocacy. O'Malley believes that Andrea Yates is a victim herself.
Susan O'Malley, Suzanne O'Malley, Suzanne O'malley (Author), Becky Ann Baker, Becky Ann Baker (Narrator)
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