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What's behind our enduring fascination with wives and mothers who kill?

  • Written by Dianne Berg, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Clark University
What's behind our enduring fascination with wives and mothers who kill?A family photo of Andrea Yates, her husband and four of their five children. Yates killed all five by drowning them in a bathtub in 2001.Photo Courtesy of Yates Family/Getty Images

In March 2023, a Utah woman named Kouri Richins published a children’s book titled “Are You With Me?” which she characterized as an effort to help her...

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