A Texas mother was found not guilty by reason of insanity for drowning her five children in 2001, believing she was saving them from damnation.

On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates, a 37-year-old mother from Clear Lake City, Texas, waited for her NASA engineer husband Rusty to leave for work before methodically drowning all five of her children - Noah (7), John (5), Paul (3), Luke (2), and Mary (6 months) - in the bathtub, believing she was saving them from eternal damnation.