You show the gist of why people here with miraculous 20-20 hindsight are SO far off-base. Everything is "woulda-coulda-shoulda". I doubt if anyone here would have done anything differently, except to have left this whacko a long time previous.
I'm sorry, I just see too many situations like this, men who are simultaneously consumed with trying to "make things better" for their emotionally unstable wives, and yet condemned by outside society as "oppressors."
This guy was foolish and ill-advised, but he wasn't a criminal. He simply refused to see what was happening. In my view, he's going to be punished the rest of his life for this, despite what anyone else says. Ironically, it is Andrea who will undoubtedly get off light.
The sheer injustice of those calling for this man's blood is more than I can take.
The only consolation for Mr. Yates is that he seems to have made sure the kids were happy while they were alive. All the pictures of them shows happy smiling cute kids, you know their murderous sicko mother didn't do that for them, he did.
I'm sorry, I just see too many situations like this, men who are simultaneously consumed with trying to "make things better" for their emotionally unstable wives, and yet condemned by outside society as "oppressors." Oh please. If he wanted to make things better for his wife, he could have started by not impregnating her again for a fourth and fifth time, after her documented suicide attempts.
I don't think most are calling for him to fry. I'm certainly not. I feel very sorry for him. I also think the conditions he asked his mentally ill wife to live under are appalling.