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Raising her five kids alone in a rundown section of Sacramento, Theresa Cross Knorr seemed like the ultimate survivor. But her youngest daughter, 16-year-old Terry, told police another story: one almost too terrible to believe. According to Terry, Theresa - no longer the petite brunette she once was - had turned insanely jealous of her pretty eldest daughters and enlisted the help of her two teenaged sons in a vicious campaign against their sisters. Terry's gruesome tale told how Theresa had drugged, handcuffed and shot 16-year-old Suesan, allowing her wounds to fester, until the day she ordered her sons to burn their sister alive. Next, Terry said Theresa severely beat 20-year-old Sheila and then locked her in a stifling broom closet, so that when the girl finally starved to death, her brothers dumped her body in the same desolate mountain range where they had cremated Suesan. It took Terry five agonizing years to convice authorities to investigate her grisly accounts of burning flesh, starvation and torture... of a mother from hell, so sadistic and so deranged, she had become her chidren's own executioner.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The book was very interesting. It seems impossible to think that a mother could do such sick and perversed things to their own flesh and blood. Even though all of the children were not killed, the ones who lived have hell on earth. It is absolutely terrible to think that anyone would be capable of doing such things. I wish the book would have included what happened to Theresa Knorr. Did they convict her and what happened to the children? I would like a sequel or something to let you know that this monster is not out on the streets up to her old tricks.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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This books tell of the story of a woman who hated her daughters and enlisted the help of her sons in the torture and eventual murder of 2 her girls.
I thought the book was excellent, and very addictive (I read it in 3 days). It was startling how many times she got away with her crimes and how many years went by before the police finally listened to her only surviving daughter.
I highly recommend this book not only for it's factual telling of the story of a psychotic mother, but the insight it gives you into the criminal mind. I've come away with a knowledge of what warning signs to look for if ever confronted with someone crying out for help. I give the book 4* because it doesn't tell you the outcome of the trial of the mother and her sons. You're left guessing if she and her boys are convicted, or if she ends up getting away with it-AGAIN! I had to research online the outcome-other than that it's a must read.
I thought the book was excellent, and very addictive (I read it in 3 days). It was startling how many times she got away with her crimes and how many years went by before the police finally listened to her only surviving daughter.
I highly recommend this book not only for it's factual telling of the story of a psychotic mother, but the insight it gives you into the criminal mind. I've come away with a knowledge of what warning signs to look for if ever confronted with someone crying out for help. I give the book 4* because it doesn't tell you the outcome of the trial of the mother and her sons. You're left guessing if she and her boys are convicted, or if she ends up getting away with it-AGAIN! I had to research online the outcome-other than that it's a must read.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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I thought the book was a good read.
The book concentrated on the mother with just enough detail of the crimes to keep you interested.
It is also interesting in how the daughter could tell so many people of crimes and NO ONE does anything including the Police.
How the mother changed once away from the family.
The book concentrated on the mother with just enough detail of the crimes to keep you interested.
It is also interesting in how the daughter could tell so many people of crimes and NO ONE does anything including the Police.
How the mother changed once away from the family.
I totally recommend it but.......
my only critisim is that me personally i would have liked to have had more detail of the crimes with-in the house as I felt there was a lot left out.
But this takes nothing away from the book except that it left me wanting to know more.
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Horrendous account of cruelty :(
Fantasticly written book covering the crimes of Theresa Knorr, indeed The Mother From Hell (as the title of my copy suggests). Read more
Published on 30 Nov 2008 by Gav.76
How to avoid capital punishment.
In answer to an earlier opinion. Knorr and her sons were arrested in 1993, after being turned in by her youngest daughter. She first pled not guilty. Read more
Published on 30 Oct 2008 by C. Walker
What Ever Mother Says
I read this book in a day and I could not put it down, I was in shock the whole time I was reading it.
Very Good Book.
Very Good Book.
Published on 2 Jun 2008 by hpkitkat
exellent read
i couldnt put this book down when i started to read it.
it was very disturbing, but a cracking book for anyone who likes true crime books.
it was very disturbing, but a cracking book for anyone who likes true crime books.
Published on 11 Feb 2008 by Mrs. E. Mcanallen
Disturbing is right..
Whatever possessed or possesses this woman is anybody`s guess - and her wicked sons are no better. Absolutely horrific torture meted out to these poor girls by their own mother and... Read more
Published on 3 Feb 2008 by Leeds lass
Disturbing but well written
I have just finished this book and felt the need to write a quick review. Although this book is incredibly disturbing, it opens your eyes to reality. Read more
Published on 8 Dec 2006 by Pinkscoober
A Very Good read
This book was interesting and well written outlining the development of the Knoor case. It was compulsive reading and difficult to put down. Read more
Published on 7 July 2006 by Mr. Mark R. Squire
You wont be able to put it down
I have been interested in true crime for about 15 years. A friend recommended this book and I thought I would give it a read. It sat on my book stand for about a month. Read more
Published on 15 May 2006 by Ms. A. J. Duckett
Excellent
This book is a must read!!! i read it in two days i could just not put it down, highly recommended. only downfall is that it ended too soon, i would have liked to know what... Read more
Published on 3 Mar 2006
okay
I felt that the book was quite good, it gave a detailed account of how horrible and calculated Mrs knorr was, I felt that the boys were made to do something that if they lived in... Read more
Published on 9 Dec 2005
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