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Beth Karas

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Barely Famous
The Curious Case Of...With Beth Karas

That woman was first convicted and sentenced to life without parole, and it was reversed on appeal because of something the psychiatric witness, the psychiatrist for the state, the expert said, that there had been a Law & Order episode where a woman had done just that, drowned her kids and used an insanity defense and got off, where that episode hadn't aired before she did this.

Barely Famous
The Curious Case Of...With Beth Karas

That woman was first convicted and sentenced to life without parole, and it was reversed on appeal because of something the psychiatric witness, the psychiatrist for the state, the expert said, that there had been a Law & Order episode where a woman had done just that, drowned her kids and used an insanity defense and got off, where that episode hadn't aired before she did this.

Barely Famous
The Curious Case Of...With Beth Karas

That woman was first convicted and sentenced to life without parole, and it was reversed on appeal because of something the psychiatric witness, the psychiatrist for the state, the expert said, that there had been a Law & Order episode where a woman had done just that, drowned her kids and used an insanity defense and got off, where that episode hadn't aired before she did this.

Barely Famous
The Curious Case Of...With Beth Karas

It was just a coincidence? He was wrong. He said it aired. It had nothing to do with her drowning her kids. And she got a new trial because of that. And I was at her second trial. She's a very, very sick woman. When she was married to a man who was like a NASA scientist, and they were living in a trailways bus, like made over into a home. They didn't have five kids yet. They were two or three.

Barely Famous
The Curious Case Of...With Beth Karas

It was just a coincidence? He was wrong. He said it aired. It had nothing to do with her drowning her kids. And she got a new trial because of that. And I was at her second trial. She's a very, very sick woman. When she was married to a man who was like a NASA scientist, and they were living in a trailways bus, like made over into a home. They didn't have five kids yet. They were two or three.

Barely Famous
The Curious Case Of...With Beth Karas

It was just a coincidence? He was wrong. He said it aired. It had nothing to do with her drowning her kids. And she got a new trial because of that. And I was at her second trial. She's a very, very sick woman. When she was married to a man who was like a NASA scientist, and they were living in a trailways bus, like made over into a home. They didn't have five kids yet. They were two or three.

Barely Famous
The Curious Case Of...With Beth Karas

And she had to homeschool the children. And then they upgraded to a little house, which was nice. And then by the time she had her fifth child, she was like very bad, like postpartum, but she was also psychotic. She thought the television was talking to her and sending her signals. And when she drowned the kids, her husband, Rusty, had gone, he's ex-husband, had gone to work.

Barely Famous
The Curious Case Of...With Beth Karas

And she had to homeschool the children. And then they upgraded to a little house, which was nice. And then by the time she had her fifth child, she was like very bad, like postpartum, but she was also psychotic. She thought the television was talking to her and sending her signals. And when she drowned the kids, her husband, Rusty, had gone, he's ex-husband, had gone to work.

Barely Famous
The Curious Case Of...With Beth Karas

And she had to homeschool the children. And then they upgraded to a little house, which was nice. And then by the time she had her fifth child, she was like very bad, like postpartum, but she was also psychotic. She thought the television was talking to her and sending her signals. And when she drowned the kids, her husband, Rusty, had gone, he's ex-husband, had gone to work.

Barely Famous
The Curious Case Of...With Beth Karas

And she drowned the kids in the bathtub in the same water, right? So she's chasing the kids around the house because, you know, they realize what's happening. They're old enough, some of them, even though there was an infant. I don't remember all the ages, like eight, six, five, you know. And she was so tired.

Barely Famous
The Curious Case Of...With Beth Karas

And she drowned the kids in the bathtub in the same water, right? So she's chasing the kids around the house because, you know, they realize what's happening. They're old enough, some of them, even though there was an infant. I don't remember all the ages, like eight, six, five, you know. And she was so tired.

Barely Famous
The Curious Case Of...With Beth Karas

And she drowned the kids in the bathtub in the same water, right? So she's chasing the kids around the house because, you know, they realize what's happening. They're old enough, some of them, even though there was an infant. I don't remember all the ages, like eight, six, five, you know. And she was so tired.

Barely Famous
The Curious Case Of...With Beth Karas

after drowning four of the five, that by the fifth child, she couldn't even lift him out of the tub. And I just remember seeing a photo of him floating face down in the tub in the tall feces and urine because the children are, you know, going to the bathroom as they're being killed. And she lined up the other four in her bed with the infant in the arms of the oldest, dead.

Barely Famous
The Curious Case Of...With Beth Karas

after drowning four of the five, that by the fifth child, she couldn't even lift him out of the tub. And I just remember seeing a photo of him floating face down in the tub in the tall feces and urine because the children are, you know, going to the bathroom as they're being killed. And she lined up the other four in her bed with the infant in the arms of the oldest, dead.

Barely Famous
The Curious Case Of...With Beth Karas

after drowning four of the five, that by the fifth child, she couldn't even lift him out of the tub. And I just remember seeing a photo of him floating face down in the tub in the tall feces and urine because the children are, you know, going to the bathroom as they're being killed. And she lined up the other four in her bed with the infant in the arms of the oldest, dead.

Barely Famous
The Curious Case Of...With Beth Karas

And then she called Rusty and said, I hurt the kids. I'm paraphrasing, something like that. She called Rusty and said, I did it. I hurt the kids or something like that. So she was very, very sick. And between her two trials, there had been another woman in Texas who had killed. I remember her name, but she had killed her kids.

Barely Famous
The Curious Case Of...With Beth Karas

And then she called Rusty and said, I hurt the kids. I'm paraphrasing, something like that. She called Rusty and said, I did it. I hurt the kids or something like that. So she was very, very sick. And between her two trials, there had been another woman in Texas who had killed. I remember her name, but she had killed her kids.

Barely Famous
The Curious Case Of...With Beth Karas

And then she called Rusty and said, I hurt the kids. I'm paraphrasing, something like that. She called Rusty and said, I did it. I hurt the kids or something like that. So she was very, very sick. And between her two trials, there had been another woman in Texas who had killed. I remember her name, but she had killed her kids.

Barely Famous
The Curious Case Of...With Beth Karas

But she believed like God had told her to when she hit him with a rock, their heads with a rock outside of the rock. And it's it's almost like. And jurors in Texas, they learned that she was really sick, too. That they were not going to put Andrea Yates in prison. They're going to put her in a facility. And she's going to be there for the rest of her life. Right.

Barely Famous
The Curious Case Of...With Beth Karas

But she believed like God had told her to when she hit him with a rock, their heads with a rock outside of the rock. And it's it's almost like. And jurors in Texas, they learned that she was really sick, too. That they were not going to put Andrea Yates in prison. They're going to put her in a facility. And she's going to be there for the rest of her life. Right.