Breaking Point

About this book

One day Andrea Yates was a loving mother. The next the nation was shocked by the death of her five innocent children... The 911 call that shocked the country. "I just killed my children." Why were they killed? On June 20 2001 in a middle-class Houston suburb Andrea Yates and her husband Russell a NASA engineer prepared for the routine week-day ahead. But before the morning was over tragedy would strike the quiet family and turn the day into a nightmare. Shortly before 10 a.m. Andrea calmly summoned the police with a grim confession... One by one Andrea Yates children ages 6 months to 7 years had been drowned in their bathtub. No one who knew Andrea could picture the devoted mother capable of such an unbelievable crime or imagine the terror in the eyes of her trusting children. As their father struggled between overwhelming grief and loyalty to his imprisoned wife an outraged nation struggled with an unfathomable question... Breaking Point provides a harrowing portrait of the suffocating darkness at the heart of one all-American family and exposes the private demons that pushed a mother over the edge. With 8 pages of photographs.