Mother's Day

The true story of Theresa Knorr, the twisted child abuser who murdered her daughterswith the help of her sonstold by a former New York Times reporter. In June 1985, Theresa Cross Knorr dumped her daughter Sheilas body in Californias desolate High Sierra. She had beaten Sheila unconscious in their Sacramento apartment days earlier, then locked her in a closet to die. But this wasnt the first horrific crime shed committed against her own children. The previous summer, Knorr had shot Sheilas sister Suesan, then ordered her son to dig the bullet out of the girls back with a knife to hide the evidence. The infection that resulted led to deliriumat which point Knorr and her two sons drove Suesan into the mountains, doused her with gasoline, and set her on fire. It would be almost a decade before her youngest daughter, Terry Knorr Graves, revealed her mothers history of unfathomable violence. At first, she was met with disbelief by law enforcement and even her own therapist. But eventually, the truth about her monstrous abuse emergedand here, an award-winning journalist details the jealousy, rage, and domineering behavior that escalated into homicide and shattered a family. A former reporter for the New York Times and Los AngelesTimes and the author of true-crime classics including Angel of Darkness, about serial killer Randy Kroft, and Blood Cold, about Robert Blake and Bonny Lee Bakley, Dennis McDougal reveals the shocking depths of depravity behind a case that made headlines across the nation.