Popular Culture
- The ABC-TV show Desperate Housewives was partly inspired by the Yates drownings, according to creator Marc Cherry.
- The Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Magnificat" was based on the Yates case.
- The 2008 film Baby Blues (AKA Cradle may Fall in U.K.) is based on the killings, although the story is largely changed from the true events.
- On his song "World Gone Crazy", rapper Aaron Yates (AKA "Tech N9ne") references his last name being the same, and also references a woman drowning her babies in the lyrics: "Sick mothers drowning they babies" & "Why I got the same last name as Andrea?"
- A song by the band Trivium, entitled "Entrance of the Conflagration", deals with the drownings, and is mostly based on Andrea Yates' testimony.
- The TV documentary series, American Justice, has an episode about the case.
- In 2009, the Andrea Yates incident and its aftermath was adapted by playwright Douglas M. Parker into the play Thicker Than Water.
- The TV show "Deadly Women" did a segment on Andrea Yates.
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