Mrs. Yates was given a life sentence for drowning her five children.
Specialist Morgan had confessed to drowning her children in the bathtub.
What could possibly have driven a nice middle-class suburban mother to drown her five children?
She's the ghost of a woman who drowned her own children and she takes other children in an effort to replace them.
One case was simply unthinkable: a mother drowned her five children.
She drowned her three children in the lake behind her house.
The weight of the evidence was that she knew it was wrong when she drowned her children.
Some mothers who had drowned their children were unable to drown themselves thereafter.
Maria, knowing that her husband no longer loves her, drowns their three children in the river and then herself.
As a matter of law, it appears that she knew she was drowning her children.
