Andrea Yates Case: ID Docuseries Claims Cult Preacher Influenced Mother Who Drowned Five Children
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Andrea Yates’ unspeakable crime was drowning her five young kids in a family bathtub in June 2001 while struggling with severe depression and psychosis — an act that made her America’s most hated mother at the time.
But Investigation Discovery with The Cult Behind The Killer: The Andrea Yates Story has reopened the debate around the mother, who was convicted after confessing to the crime, but later found not guilty by reason of insanity. The docuseries illuminates a rogue street preacher whose fire-and-brimstone teachings brought the vulnerable Texas mother with a history of mental health struggles under his control.
“When I watch the coverage about Andrea Yates, it’s like, ‘This woman is evil. She’s insane.’ They are missing a huge part of the story: Michael Woroniecki,” Moses Storm, a former cult follower, says in the ID teaser trailer for the docuseries.
The Cult Behind The Killer: The Andrea Yates Story goes beyond the common narrative of a troubled mother being the sole perpetrator of an unimaginable act to exploring how a woman grappling with severe postpartum psychosis could be driven to tragic extremes due to the psychological manipulation of a cult.
The ID docuseries exposes Woroneicki for allegedly twisting Yates’ sense of reality. After she was found not guilty during a 2006 retrial by reason of insanity, she was committed to a high-security psychiatric hospital.
The role that Yates’ mental illness played in her children’s deaths has ID questioning who else in the alleged cult was impacted and what might have been, had Woroneicki and his religious guidance not allegedly steered an impressionable mother to ruin her own and her family’s lives.
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