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Ex-Fox anchor faces life time in jail – Angelynn Mock turned herself in after stabbing her mother, 80, to death in bed with four kitchen knives and cheese grater

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;280606&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Angelynn Mock&comma; 48&comma; pled guilty to first-degree murder on Friday afternoon in the death of her 80-year-old mother&comma; Anita Avers&comma; in Wichita&comma; Kansas <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;280606&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>The former Fox anchor admits to stabbing her mom&comma; 80&comma; to death in bed with four kitchen knives and a cheese grater on October 31&comma; 2025 <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;280606&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Mock called 911&comma; telling a dispatcher &&num;8216&semi;her mother tried to kill her&comma; so she stabbed her in return&&num;8217&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;280606&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Prior to her plea&comma; Mock was ordered to undergo a competency evaluation <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;280606&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Last month a judge ruled she was competent to stand trial&comma; having has since waived her right to a trial sentencing is scheduled <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;280606&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>She faces a life sentence&comma; to serve 25 years minimum&comma; at sentencing scheduled for October <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;08&sol;Angelynn-Mock-4&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-502237" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Angelynn Mock&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; pled guilty to first-degree murder on Friday afternoon in the death of her mother&comma; Anita Avers&comma; in Wichita&comma; Kansas&period; The former Fox anchor admitted to stabbing her mother to death on Halloween 2025<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Angelynn Mock&comma; a former news anchor of a local&nbsp&semi;Fox affiliate in Missouri&comma; has confessed to stabbing her elderly mother to death with four kitchen knives and a cheese grater&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>Mock&comma; 48&comma; pled guilty to first-degree murder on Friday afternoon in the grisly death of her mother&comma; Anita Avers&comma; in Wichita&comma; Kansas&period;&nbsp&semi;With her plea on first-degree murder accepted&comma; she is facing a possible life sentence with parole eligibility after 25 years at sentencing which is scheduled for October 5&period;<br>Officers report finding the 80-year-old unresponsive in her bed&comma; wearing just underwear and a bra&comma;&nbsp&semi;on October 31&comma; 2025 &&num;8211&semi; with multiple stab wounds to her face and torso&comma; according to an affidavit&period; <br>Several kitchen knives and a cheese grater were found &&num;8216&semi;laid out on a pillow&&num;8217&semi; next to the defendant&&num;8217&semi;s mother in bed&comma; and &&num;8216&semi;all the utensils had blood on them&comma;&&num;8217&semi; court documents read&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;08&sol;Anita-Avers-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-502206" style&equals;"aspect-ratio&colon;0&period;8890613852462385&semi;width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Responding police officers on October 31&comma; 2025&comma; found Angelynn Moc&&num;8217&semi;s 80-year-old mother&comma; Anita Avers&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; unresponsive in her bed&comma; wearing just underwear and a bra&period; Trans ported to hospital&comma; she later died from multiple stab wounds to her face and torso<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Angelynn Mock&comma; a news anchor at Missouri&&num;8217&semi;s St Louis local station Fox 2 from 2011 to 2015&comma; called 911 herself&comma; immediately proffering self-defense&comma; she told a dispatcher that &&num;8216&semi;her mother tried to kill her&comma; so she stabbed her in return&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the affidavit stated&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>When officers from the Wichita Police Department arrived at Avers&&num;8217&semi; home&comma; they found her daughter outside holding a towel to her bloody hand&period;<br>The injured senior was taken by ambulance to a local hospital&comma; where she later expired&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>Meanwhile&comma; Mock told police that before the stabbing&comma; she entered her mother&&num;8217&semi;s bedroom and found her &&num;8216&semi;sharpening knives&&num;8217&semi; before Avers &&num;8216&semi;came after her with a knife and fought her&comma;&&num;8217&semi; per the affidavit&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;08&sol;Angelynn-Mock-5&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-502212"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Mock told cops when her mother came at her&comma; she pushed her mother back who then said&colon; &&num;8216&semi;I know you&&num;8217&semi;re f&ast;&ast;&ast;ing Jesus Christ&comma;&&num;8217&semi; that she backed off&comma; but her mother continued to follow her&comma; so she grabbed a knife &&num;8216&semi;and got on top of her&comma;&&num;8217&semi; adding that she stabbed her mother because she &&num;8216&semi;started spewing venom at me out of her f&ast;&ast;&ast;ing mouth&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Responding to the call police met Mock outside the Wichita home holding a towel to her bloody hands&period; Officers found her mother <strong> <&sol;strong>unresponsive in her bed&comma; wearing just underwear and a bra&period; The 80-year-old had suffered multiple stab wounds to her face and torso&comma; according to an affidavit&period; <br>Mock told officers she pushed her mother back as Avers told her&colon; &&num;8216&semi;I know you&&num;8217&semi;re f&ast;&ast;&ast;ing Jesus Christ&comma;&&num;8217&semi; police recorded&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>The former anchor then told officers she backed off&comma; but her mother continued to follow her&comma; so she grabbed a knife &&num;8216&semi;and got on top of her&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the affidavit detailed&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>At the time&comma; Mock said she stabbed her mother because she &&num;8216&semi;started spewing venom at me out of her f&ast;&ast;&ast;ing mouth&comma;&&num;8217&semi; according to the documents&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>Later on&comma; she told police that she entered her mother&&num;8217&semi;s bedroom that day to discuss an &&num;8216&semi;upcoming job interview with local NBC affiliate&comma; KSN &&num;8211&semi; because she was a news anchor&comma;&&num;8217&semi; police said&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>She was employed as a sales employee at a data management software company at the time of her arrest&comma; according to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;newsweek&period;com&sol;entertainment&sol;angelynn-mock-former-news-anchor-charged-murder-10980870" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener" class&equals;"">Newsweek<&sol;a>&comma; citing her now-deleted LinkedIn profile&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>After telling her mother about the job prospect&comma; Mock said Avers&comma; who was &&num;8216&semi;sharpening knives with bigger knives&comma;&&num;8217&semi; said she was jealous and did not want her to get the job&comma; the affidavit stated&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>Officers also spoke with Barry Avers&comma; Anita&&num;8217&semi;s husband&comma; who was at work at the time of her murder&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;08&sol;Anita-Aver-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-502202" style&equals;"aspect-ratio&colon;1&period;4766202544099656&semi;width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Barry Avers&comma; &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; told police his stepdaughter was previously diagnosed with&nbsp&semi;schizoaffective disorder&comma; a condition that exhibits mood disorder and schizophrenia symptoms&period; To his knowledge she was on medication after experiencing &&num;8217&semi;bouts of delusions mixed with periods of depression&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Officers also spoke with Barry Avers&comma; Anita&&num;8217&semi;s husband&comma; who was at work at the time of her murder&period;&nbsp&semi;He told police his stepdaughter was employed at the St Louis station&comma; &&num;8216&semi;before being laid off&comma; after an explosive situation involving alcohol&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>He explained that Mock moved in with them about four to five years earlier&period; His late wife he said&comma; had tried to get her daughter to seek mental health treatment because she was previously diagnosed with bipolar disorder&period;<br>He told police that the bipolar diagnosis was later changed to schizoaffective disorder&comma; a condition that exhibits mood disorder and schizophrenia symptoms&comma; per the affidavit&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>To his knowledge&comma; his stepdaughter was on medication after experiencing &&num;8217&semi;bouts of delusions mixed with periods of depression&comma;&&num;8217&semi; police said&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>Approximately a month before killing her mother&comma; Mock grew angry during a family card game&comma; Barry recalled&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>She began complaining that everyone hated her and she hated them too&comma; and told her relatives&colon; &&num;8216&semi;They&&num;8217&semi;re all robots&&num;8217&semi; and &&num;8216&semi;They&&num;8217&semi;re not real people&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>Barry also told authorities that he knew that Mock would often &&num;8216&semi;claim to be spiritual and talk to God&&num;8217&semi; and also said she was &&num;8216&semi;Anti-Christ&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the affidavit stated&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>Mock&&num;8217&semi;s outbursts often take place while she was on her stationary exercise bicycle&comma; according to her stepdad&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;08&sol;Anita-Avers-and-her-daughter-Angelynn-Mock-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-502207" style&equals;"aspect-ratio&colon;1&period;1871673142540886&semi;width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Mock&comma; &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; waived her right to a trial in the murder of her mom &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; after pleading guilty to first-degree murder&period; Her sentencing hearing has been scheduled for October 5<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">From the crime scene Mock was also taken to the hospital before being transported to&nbsp&semi;the Wichita Police Department Investigation Section&period;&nbsp&semi;While she was in the interview room at the facility&comma; Mock spoke to herself several times&comma; stating that she believed her mother was the devil&period;<br>During the interview Mock according to the affidavit said&colon; &&num;8216&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;d kill that b&ast;&ast;&ast;&ast; to have my mom back any day&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t even know who she is anymore&period; I know&comma; believe she&&num;8217&semi;s the devil&period;&&num;8217&semi; &nbsp&semi;<br>Before entering her guilty plea&comma; Mock was ordered to undergo a competency evaluation to see if she was fit to stand trial&period; In July&comma; a judge ruled she was competent to stand trial&period;&nbsp&semi;However&comma; she has since waived her right to a trial and will be sentenced on October 5&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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