Jail psychiatrist: Yates was psychotic
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The day after drowning her five children in the bathtub, Andrea Yates sat in a psychiatric unit at the county jail and asked for a razor to shave her head, a case worker testified.
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A schizophrenic who beat a nurse to death is ordered to be detained in Broadmoor Prison.
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An aspiring writer who left a horror scene of body parts in his apartment was arraigned Thursday on charges of murder and desecrating a corpse after he allegedly cut up and ate part of his girlfriend's body. But he refused to make a formal plea, saying "I can't get my thoughts together right now."
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The resume of psychiatrist Park Dietz reads like a who's who of notorious killers of the last quarter-century.
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A judge threatened to jail the head of the state Department of Children &amp; Families if the agency can't explain why it consistently has failed to get mentally ill jail inmates into psychiatric treatment.
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A paranoid schizophrenic is detained for seven years in a secure mental health unit for stabbing a man to death on a bus.
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A Long Beach man who committed two murders, one of them while behind bars, was sentenced to death by a judge who called him "a Houdini in jail."
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A Tennessee judge resigned last month after making a recording of fantasies so lurid that when the tape fell into the hands of the police and FBI, they thought they were listening to a torture session and believed it might be linked to a murder case.
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Interpretations of the insanity plea have changed through the ages, but advances in neuroscience promise to redefine free will and personal responsibility, and change the way we think about punishment. By Rowan Hooper.
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A man who claimed to be a psychiatrist and pocketed Â£1.5m assessing asylum seekers is jailed.
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New York's most dangerous sex offenders will be locked up in psychiatric centers after their prison terms end if a court determines they continue to pose a threat to the public, Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced Thursday.
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DALLAS -- A mentally ill Dallas County jail inmate was cut off from drinking water for nearly two weeks and denied psychiatric medication for almost two months, according to an internal investigation.
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The playwright of a Tony-nominated play about a serial killer and his psychiatrist has been accused of plagiarizing passages from the work of a criminal psychiatrist and a writer for The New Yorker magazine.
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A former psychiatric patient was yesterday arrested for questioning about the macabre double murder of a nurse and auxiliary nurse at a mental hospital in Pau in the French Pyrenees at the weekend.
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PHOENIX, Sept. 11 -- An ex-convict and construction worker was charged with 17 felony counts Monday in two sexual assaults linked to an investigation of a string of serial killings.
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NEW YORK -- Susan Wezel had been committed to the city's hospital wards more than a dozen times in 10 years. Her psychosis was so deep and debilitating that she lost her career and her relationship with her son, as she refused to take her medication or follow treatment.
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BURLINGTON, Iowa - A psychiatrist who police say smeared excrement on dollars bills used to pay a parking ticket has been fined $250.