Former TV anchor pleads guilty to killing mother, believed victim was the devil

Anita Avers, 80, was fatally stabbed multiple times by her daughter on Halloween 2025 after the daughter experienced delusional episodes believing her mother was the devil.

On Halloween morning in Wichita, a daughter who had once delivered the news to thousands stood outside her mother's home with cuts on her hands, while inside, an 80-year-old woman lay fatally stabbed. Angelynn Mock, a former television anchor whose career spanned newsrooms across the country, has now pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the death of her mother, Anita Avers — a killing she says she committed in the grip of a delusion that her mother was the devil. The case asks an enduring and uncomfortable question: how do we reckon with violence that emerges not from malice in the ordinar

Former TV anchor pleads guilty to killing mother, believed victim was the devil

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