Russell "Rusty" Yates faced immense tragedy when his then-wife, Andrea Yates, drowned their five children in June 2001. More than two decades after the crime, Rusty revealed why he still visits his ex-wife once a year at a mental health facility in Kerrville, Texas. "I try once a year to visit in person and we text back and forth some and talk on the phone some," Rusty, 61, told People in an interview published on Monday, January 12. "Andrea and I always got along. That's a time of our life that we both cherish and she's the only person I can talk to about it.