[isthisnickcool]

I know someone that has a restaraunt that the Yate's would go to. She said that whenever they were there the kids and the wife never spoke. They just sat there like stones. Unless he spoke to them.

There is a local bookstore for home schooling. When the Yates's first visited it Rusty walked into the store and checked it out. He then let the wife and kids come in. They never spoke unless he spoke to them first.

A neighbor of theirs we know said that the kids almost never were allowed outside in the front yard. They were inside all the time. 5 kids and mom in a 1600 sq. ft. house.

Does not excuse what she did. But there is something odd about Russell "van dam" Yates

[MistyCA]

Hey Nick, I have heard many of the same things you are saying. Quite frankly, the husband is the one who should have been taken to task for his part in all of this horror. Sometimes justice just doesn't seem to "get" it. Seems like a lot of complicity to me.

I was relieved earlier today that the jury had the sense to recognize that Andrea Yates isn't a threat to society. Sometimes the true dynamics of a situation take a while to present themselves. Of course, we know that well. I can't imagine what the search for peace must represent to Andrea Yates. Is there such a thing? For this and the many other reasons we talked about, my senses are overwhelmed!