Yates lived by rigid schedule, according to husband

The Dallas Morning News ^ | March 1, 2002 (The Ides of March are upon us!) | By TERRI LANGFORD / The Dallas Morning News

[MeekOneGOP]

Easy Link
http://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/stories/030102dntexyates.278df.html

[xsmommy]

this husband is equally responsible for the deaths of his children. those living conditions were untenable and this woman did everything but draw him a map of what she would eventually end up doing. it does not excuse her in the slightest, but he is equally culpable.

[MeekOneGOP]

Ping a few Texans.
Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Texas ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[nopardons]

These people are just crazy. Trying to call them Conservatives , is also crazy !

I heard a brief report, on the radio ( and no other source has picked it up, that I know of ) , that they belong to a cult like , way out there , sort of Christian sect , with rules that make the Taliban appear to be " gentle ". Women are ALL supposedly EVIL, and that Eve was EVIL and allied with Satan , so ... women were all evil too. Mrs. Yates HAS claimed that she was " evil " and Satan, and I think that her husband is as guilty as she is ; he turned her into this monster. It was he, who met the leaders of this " religion ", while he was in college, and brought his wife into it.

I'd go insane too, if I were married for 4 1/2 years , with three children, pregnat with another, lived in a damned bus, and was allowed 3 hours a week, for myself. YUCK !

[wafflehouse]

i think they are both nutjobs, (in the sense that their 'lifestyle' is pretty damn strange to me)
but that doesnt excuse anything.
they should hang him from the highest tree in texas..
and that would be too good for him.
they should send her to live with the taliban, and see what sort of sympathy she gets there.

[Unknown Freeper]

did she agree to these things or did he tell her she was agreeing to these things?

[samtheman]

At the very least, the husband is a liar, a cheat and a swindler. He sells her this deal "man breadwinner, woman homemaker"... and then takes the friggin home away from her and makes her live in a friggin bus! What a lousy piece'o'crap "breadwinner".

I'm not defending the woman. She could have run away. Anything other than kill her kids. She deserves whatever the judge and jury decide is appropriate for her.

But that husband. What a loser.

[MeekOneGOP]

this husband is equally responsible for the deaths of his children. those living conditions were untenable and this woman did everything but draw him a map of what she would eventually end up doing. it does not excuse her in the slightest, but he is equally culpable.

I agree. The article title should more appropriately read
Yates lived by rigid schedule, set and enforced by husband.
Or something like that.

[lavaroise]

it does not excuse her in the slightest, but he is equally culpable.

No wonder his queer behavior trying to intelectualise and diminish the horror of the crime,

[Real Cynic No More]

Slavery is alive and well in the good ole USA... and it has nothing to do with race or ethnic background. Sounds to me as if her motive was to punish him.

[lavaroise]

Yates lived by rigid schedule, set and enforced by husband.

Wait a minute here. This is free America. No one ever forces anyone to do anything, unless you belong to NOW.

[SamAdams76]

Mr. Yates, 37, told the jury that he and his wife agreed before their wedding in 1993 to a "traditional" marriage in which he would serve as sole breadwinner and she would be homemaker.

That's a "traditional" marriage? I thought a traditional marriage was one in which the man sat around in his underwear all weekend watching football and drinking beer while the woman nagged him incessantly about cleaning the garage and painting the baby's room and never "taking her out anywhere."

"Were you listening to me at all? Did you listen to a word I said? Okay, tell me what I just said!"

[technochick99]

Exactly, and I'll bet that whenever she brought up the idea of changing their agreement made before marriage, Mr. Flexibility nixed the idea. We were happy living in a bus? She opted for natural childbirth on her own volition?

What a sick little marriage...

[NewHampshireDuo]

I sincerely wish that Mr. Yates was also on trial as an accomplish for this grisly crime. That man is a walking horror....

[Brownie74]

Her hair greasy and matted, her body reeking, Mrs. Yates was a walking zombie then, Mrs. Holmes said.

But yet her husband wanted to have more children. The more I learn about this case, the more I feel he should be on trial with Andrea.

[Lanza]

The Houston Chronicle today describes her best friend's testimony. She begged the husband to get Andrea help. At one point she thought Andrea would physically die and her kidneys were going to shut down (she was a nurse like Andrea) and begged him to take her to the hospital saying "she won't make it through the weekend." Rusty blew her off. She said Andrea stunk and her hair was matted one time when she went over. The friend offered to get Andrea in the shower and the mother in law insisted that her and Rusty would help bathe her that night. The friend had to point out the fact Andrea stunk. This family KNEW she was too sick to be caring for those children. I am so disgusted with it all, because this tragedy was so avoidable. That man did not care about his wife, and I believe she killed those children to hurt him.

[muggs]

I only hope with all the plubicity from the trial, he will never find another woman to marry and produce more children with. At least I hope no other woman would want anything to do with him after hearing all this.