Former news anchor is headed to prison after launching lethal Halloween attack on her sleeping mom inside her bedroom

A erstwhile TV quality anchor is headed to situation for decades for stabbing her 80-year-old parent to death successful her furniture astatine their Kansas home.

Angelynn Mock, 48, was sentenced to beingness successful situation with the anticipation of parole aft 25 years for the decease of Anita Avers successful Wichita. Mock pleaded blameworthy successful August to first-degree murder.

Avers' stepdaughter Sonja Kreutziger told the tribunal that the unfortunate was a "bright, compassionate loving pistillate that wanted to marque each infinitesimal a infinitesimal of beauty."

"There utilized to beryllium truthful overmuch joyousness successful my bosom due to the fact that of her," Kreutziger said. "Shock, disbelief, horror, trauma struck america each past Halloween. The idiosyncratic I knew arsenic gentle, benignant Angie, did not conscionable execution her mom. She ambushed Anita portion Anita was successful furniture asleep. This was truthful retired of quality for the Angie we thought we knew. So devastating, truthful calculated, truthful demonic."

Kreutziger said her stepmom had antiaircraft wounds connected her arms, which meant she woke during the attack.

"She went to her decease knowing that it was her girl that slaughtered her," she said.

Family besides spoke astir however Halloween — a vacation they each erstwhile celebrated with joyousness — volition ne'er beryllium the same.

"There will be no more dressing up or carving jack-o'-lanterns or handing out candy," her niece said. "How do you celebrate the worst day of your life? One minute I'm competing in a costume contest, and the next, none of it matters. Walking around the store this time of year and seeing all the decor just reminds me of that day."

Mock, a greeting anchor for KTVI, the Fox presumption successful St. Louis, from 2011 to 2015, wept during the proceeding and declined to code the court.

Cops responded soon earlier 8 a.m. connected Oct. 31, 2025, to a location successful the 1500 artifact of East Crowley. Mock, covered successful blood, was lasting extracurricular the location erstwhile officers arrived. When they went into the home, they recovered Avers unresponsive successful her furniture with "multiple stab wounds." She was taken to the hospital, wherever doctors pronounced her dead.

A probable origin apprehension affidavit said determination was humor passim the home. Several knives and a food grater were connected a pillow adjacent to the victim's body.

Mock told cops she went to speech with her parent astir a imaginable occupation and recovered her sharpening knives successful bed. The suspect said her parent came astatine her with a knife, saying "I cognize you're f—ing Jesus Christ," according to the affidavit. Mock claimed she fought her parent disconnected and went to drawback a weapon of her own.

"Angelynn said her parent 'started spewing venom astatine maine retired of her f—ing mouth,' truthful she had to stab her to prevention herself," cops wrote.

The suspect gave inconsistent accounts of who attacked whom first, detectives noted. She told investigators she wanted to talk to an attorney, truthful the interrogation concluded. She had respective lacerations connected her manus and was treated astatine a hospital.

Investigators spoke with Avers' hubby and Mock's stepfather, who was astatine enactment astatine the clip of the incident. He elaborate Mock's intelligence wellness struggles, saying she was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, which involves schizophrenia and temper upset symptoms. She had antecedently spent clip successful a intelligence hospital, helium said. Mock besides would sometimes beryllium successful a delusional state, saying "they're each robots" and "they're not existent people," per the affidavit.

Mock's stepdad told constabulary she mislaid her occupation astatine a section quality presumption wherever she was an anchor aft an "explosive concern involving alcohol." He described Mock's narration with her parent arsenic "back-and-forth," but the 2 were close. The suspect was taking her medication, arsenic acold arsenic helium knew.

The stepdad recounted the nighttime earlier the slaying, saying determination was thing retired of the ordinary. He said his woman was successful furniture erstwhile helium near for work.

While successful custody, Mock seemingly called her ma the devil successful respective statements she made to herself.

"I'd termination that b— to person my ma backmost immoderate day," she allegedly said. "I don't adjacent cognize who she is anymore. I know, I judge she is the devil."

Local ABC affiliate KAKE obtained audio of 911 dispatchers saying Mock claimed self-defense.

"Calling enactment stabbed the parent to prevention herself," dispatchers reportedly said.

KAKE spoke with a neighbour who said Mock came moving up to her and her fellow erstwhile they were successful their car.

"There was a pistillate who approached our conveyance with similar blood, similar her hands were filled, her assemblage was filled with blood, asking to telephone 911," Alyssa Castro told the TV station.

Mock begged Castro's fellow for his telephone to telephone 911. When helium gave it to her, she ran backmost into the home, Castro said.

"I asked her if she was OK, and she was beauteous shaken up and she seemed scared, and she conscionable ran off," Castro said.

The suspect has had competency issues since her arrest.

Judge Jeff Goering deemed Mock incompetent to proceed to proceedings successful January and ordered that Mock beryllium hospitalized for restoration of competency. Based connected a doctor's astir caller report, Goering successful July declared Mock competent to proceed with the case.

Avers was a licensed objective matrimony and household therapist with immoderate 20 years of experience, according to Wichita Counseling Professionals.

"She specializes successful treating adults experiencing depression, anxiousness spectrum disorders, trauma, and temper disorders, arsenic good arsenic narration issues, including couples and marriages, household conflict, infidelity and divorce," her biography said.