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Breaking Point

By: Suzy Spencer
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
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While her husband Rusty, a NASA engineer, was at work, Andrea Yates filled the family bathtub with water and systematically drowned their children, ages six months to seven years. As her eldest child lay lifeless in the bathtub and the bodies of her four youngest rested in her bed, Andrea, a devoted Christian wife and former nurse, called the police to confess her sin. The investigations by the prosecutors, by the defense, and by the press delved deeper into Andrea's mind and history, revealing a disturbing web of suicidal tendencies, depression, and psychoses. While her husband struggled between his overwhelming grief and his loyalty to his incarcerated wife, an outraged nation asked one question after another: How could anyone do this? What would drive a mother to kill her children? Drawing from hundreds of hours of interviews, court testimony, and medical records, including new access to psychiatric and legal files, Breaking Point delves deeper into an all-American family struggling with the darkness of a mental illness that twisted a loving mother into a killer obsessed with hellfire.

©2015 Suzy Spencer (P)2016 Tantor Biographies & Memoirs Murder True Crime Marriage Crime Mental Health Law Health

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"In her classic, Breaking Point, Suzy Spencer writes with conviction, nuance and understanding. A remarkable achievement by a gifted writer." (Gregg Olsen, #1 New York Times bestselling author

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I got a few chapters in when the narrator tried to imitate the voice of Rusty Yates. instead of sounding masculine, she sounded like she was a woman dressed in a negligee trying to elicit a good time. It was horrible. Just read the book

Terrible Narrator

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Decent story, narrator was very distracting. She had a particular accent that resulted in some strange word pronunciations which detracted from my ability to focus on the book.

Just OK

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so heartbreakingly sad it’s devastating really I can’t even begin to imagine what those poor children suffered mental illness or not she should’ve received the same penalty. She gave her children.

wow

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Andrea Yates might have physically killed her kids, but she is so not alone in responsibility!! Her crazy husband, doctors, family members and CPS all played a terrible role!

Ridiculous!!!

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