Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - GLAM MORNING TV ANCHOR STABS MOM, 80, DEAD, UNDERGOING PSYCH EVALUATION

Episode Date: December 28, 2025

Shortly after 7:40 a.m., Alyssa Castro and her boyfriend are in their car in their south Wichita neighborhood when a neighbor waves them down. As the woman approaches, they see what appears to be blood on the woman's hands. The woman asks to borrow a phone to call 911, then takes off with the phone back into a house. 911 dispatch is called about a possible stabbing and relays a message to first responders that a woman says there has been a stabbing in her home. Dispatch relays information that the person calling says the stabbing was in self-defense. She was trying to save herself from her mother. Arriving at the home at 7:52 a.m., Wichita police find a woman outside the home with cuts on her hands and blood on her clothing. Inside the house, they find 81-year-old Anita Avers unresponsive in her bed with multiple stab wounds. Both women are taken to the hospital. Mock is ultimately charged with murder.  This month Angelynn "Angie" Mock is undergoing a court-ordered mental competency evaluation. This has temporarily paused her first-degree murder case.  The evaluation process typically takes 60 days . A new court date has not yet been scheduled.  Arrest and Charge: Mock was arrested on October 31, 2025, and charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of her 80-year-old mother, Anita Avers, in Wichita, Kansas. Custody Status: She remains in custody at the Sedgwick County Jail on a $1 million bond. Competency Evaluation: Her attorney requested a mental health evaluation, which was granted by a Sedgwick County judge on November 14, 2025. The case was taken off the docket while the evaluation is completed, a process that typically takes around 60 days. The evaluation will determine if she is mentally fit to stand trial. Alleged Motive/Context: According to a police affidavit, Mock, who has a history of mental health issues including a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, told police she stabbed her mother in self-defense, claiming her mother was the devil. Her stepfather reported that Mock had experienced delusions in the past, including saying "They're all robots" or "They're not real people". Joining Nancy Grace today: Jim Elliott - Attorney with Butler Snow, Legal Counsel for Various Georgia Municipalities and Other Governmental Entities Caryn Stark -  Forensic Psychologist, renowned TV and Radio Trauma Expert and Consultant; Instagram: carynpsych, FB: Caryn Stark Private Practice Dan Murphy - Former NYPD Detective-Sergeant, Joint Terrorism Task Force, Former Chief Security Officer, US Bancorp, Co-Host of "Gold Shields" Podcast, and Author: “Workplace Safety: Establishing an Effective Violence Prevention Program” Dr. Priya Banerjee - Board-certified Forensic Pathologist and Anatomic Pathologist, Anchor Forensic Pathology Consulting Melissa McCarty- Reporter & Host of the “Killer Genes” podcast, Author of “The Making of a Crime Reporter;" TikTok: McCarty143, Instagram: MelissaMcCarty1 Dave Mack - Investigative Reporter, ‘Crime Stories’ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Get started at goaddy.com with GoDaddy Arrow. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A glamorous morning TV anchor runs from a bedroom bloodbath deadly stabbing. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us. Angel and Mock, a familiar face in the Kansas City news scene gained popularity as the morning show anchor for Fox 2. Her career was marked by her engaging presence and dedication. to delivering the news, not knowing she would find herself back to the limelight for all the wrong reasons. That deadly, that fatal bloodbath in the home bedroom leaves her mother 80 years old,

stabbed dead. What do we know? Mock is currently undergoing a court-ordered mental competency evaluation. This has temporarily paused her first-degree murder case. A new court date has not yet been scheduled. Her attorney requested the evaluation. This process typically takes around 60 days. The evaluation will determine if she is mentally fit to stand trial. According to a police affidavit moch, who has a history of mental health issues, including a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder,

told police she stabbed her mother in self-defense, claiming her mother was the devil. Mock's stepfather reported that Mock had experienced. experienced delusions in the past, including saying they are all robots or they are not real people. Mock remains in custody at the Sedgwick County Jail on a $1 million bond. Again, a new trial date has not been scheduled. How did we get here? Listen, there was a woman who came and approached our vehicle with blood, like her hands were filled, her body was filled with blood asking to call 911. 7.40 a.m. Alyssa Castro and her boyfriend are in their car in Wichita when a neighbor waves them down.

As the woman approaches, they see what appears to be blood. A lot of blood on the woman's hands. The woman asked to borrow a phone to call 911, then takes off with the phone back into a house. Faster, if she was a cane, she was pretty shicking up, and she seemed scared, and she just ran off. That from our friends at K-A-K-E, straight out to Melissa McCarty joining us. investigative reporter host of the killer jeans podcast and author of a brand new book the making of a crime reporter melissa thank you for being with us now who is the woman sitting in a car that observes angeline the morning tv anchor running out of the home covered in blood who is she she was a neighbor in the car with her boyfriend and she watched everything unfold and she said she was traumatized by it imagine her just sitting there pulling into the neighborhood and she sees this woman frantically running towards them begging for help so obviously they stop and she's asking for a cell phone the boyfriend

hands over her cell phone and she takes it runs inside the house and doesn't return the informant the neighbor refers to angeline mok as this woman specifically this woman a lot of people are going to get face to face with a turkey this Thursday because it is Thanksgiving and because so many people are going to be basing their turkey. We do like to talk about Greece and where it should go. A lot of people don't know that all that grease,

everybody on the block is cooking a turkey and that grease can be very problematic. That is from our friends at Fox 2 News and that is Angela Mock who ran from the home covered in blood. Curious to Dan Murphy joining us, former NYPD

Detective Sergeant. On the Joint Terrorism Task Force and former Chief Security Officer, co-host of a hit podcast, Gold Shields. Dan Murphy, you know, this woman, the TV anchor, is drenched in blood. When police finally get to the scene, they find something even worse. Her 80-year-old mother, apparently bedridden, is stabbed dead in her own bed. That's the mom on the left. the mom is

Anita Avers I think she actually turned 81 just before her stabbing death so where do you even start with a scene like that Dan immediately upon response you're going to want to give any medical aid you can at this point

if the person is not clearly deceased and even if they are a medical personnel have to come and attend to them which is going to disturb the scene a bit but it has to be done then you're going to want to preserve all the evidence you can and I've been in blood bets and you have to walk gingerly around them and wear those little booties but it needs to be done because later on the evidence is all going to speak through experts to a jury so right now you're preserving evidence you know a piece of evidence

that is commonly fumbled through nobody's fault and that's footprints when you have a blood bath like the one that happened at the home of this uh fox news anchor every blood blood marking matters. It could be sprayback. For instance, this is a stabbing death. The mother, an 81-year-old woman is stabbed multiple times. Think Ted Bundy, right, and the clubbing, right? That's called throwback, where the victim is hit forcefully, and then the perpetrator swings back to strike again. That blood is cast off, right? The cast off, if men, measured correctly can determine maybe even the height of the defendant, maybe the position in which they were when the attack occurred.

You can tell how many times, if you can't tell from the body, you can tell from the cast off how many times the person was stabbed because every time there's a swing back, it hits in a slightly different spot on the wall or the ceiling. And speaking of ceilings, significant. Explain why ceilings are important in a case like this, that they be processed, just like all the other blood evidence. Because blood evidence is airborne once it becomes a part of cast off, and it will leave an impression upon the ceiling in most buildings, especially a residential building like this. That evidence is going to be important because the blood spatter pattern analysis will be done by crime scene personnel who understand serology. understand the science of blood and how it moves and how it forms and what formations look like

when it's cast off of a nerve. So that preservation of evidence is vital. And you would want to take pieces of that ceiling with you as evidence. What do you mean take pieces of the ceiling with you as evidence? I've seen sealing pieces cut out by crime scene units, pieces of flooring cut out depending upon the nature of the crime. Now this we have, it became a homicide. You're going to take that evidence seriously and take pictures of it, but also you may want to take the actual physical piece itself. If it's a simple piece of wallboard that you can cut out, you may want to take it. It's something that may be challenged by defense. You may want to have it as evidentiary piece of evidence with you in case it's challenged. But those pieces of evidence

are going to tell a story. And in thorough investigations, I've seen pieces of buildings brought out and taken into custody. You know, we got started on this discussion talking about floor evidence and how often evidence is lost or ruined really through no one's fault when they come onto the scene. You know, everybody's shoes have to be taken and there has to be a print made of them to compare to bloody shoe prints if there are any on the floor. The only people that should go into that room are the ones. who are burdened with trying to save a life.

That's it. And then if they can't save the 81-year-old mom's life, they have to very gingerly back out and get the hay out of there. So the work can begin. But when you're trying to save somebody's life, that's your paramount concern. You're not worried about bloody footprints. Okay, let's go back to what happened.

This is it, and this is a whole other can of worms, Dan Murphy. This happened around 7 a.m. 7 a.m., which statistically is very rare for a bloodbath, a deadly bloodbath, to go down before breakfast. Okay, listen. 911 is called and relays a message to first responders. A woman says there has been a stabbing in her home. This morning at 0751 hours, officers responded to a stabbing call in the 1,500 block of East Crowley. When officers arrived on scene, they were met in the street with the, uh, with a, uh,

A 48-year-old white female who had suffered from some cutting, cuts to her hand. Joining me is a veteran trial lawyer, Jim Elliott, attorney with Butler Snow, legal counsel for multiple municipalities and governmental entities at ButlerSnow.com. Jim, thank you for being with us. Jim Elliott, you've tried a lot of cases in court. blood evidence is very tricky, especially if you don't know what you're doing, but one thing I would be looking at is the degree to which the blood had coagulated at the time when EMTs and first responders get there. And it's really difficult, Jim, you've been on a lot of scenes. They're trying to save

81 year old mom's life. They're not thinking has the blood coagulated. They're trying to resuscitate her and get her airlifted to the hospital. Where I would come in as the prosecutor, it's critical that we know whether the blood had dried, not just coagulated. Coagulated means it's kind of like jello. It's not thin, liquefied like water anymore. It's more of a jello consistency. That's coagulated.

And the harder it gets, the closer it gets, the closer. it gets to being dried. In your experience, Jim Elliott, why is it so important that we know whether the blood was still liquid as in water, semi-coagulated as in jello, or flat-out dried? Well, certainly that goes to what time the crime actually occurred or the stabbing occurred. And probably in that case, you're only going to have the eyewitness testimony of the first responders. can indicate what they saw, perhaps without a great deal of expertise in that regard. Oh, yeah, they'll be torn to shreds on cross-exam. We've got to have more than that.

We have to have the cops in there immediately processing the scene. But the reality is, Jim Elliott, it takes a beat for the entire CSI to arrive. And you could lose that critical evidence. Why is it critical? I need to know when this 81-year-old mother was stabbed multiple times in her bed. You know another thing, Elliot? I notice this when prosecuting in inner city Atlanta. When the victim is very young

like an infant or very old, for some reason, those cases are very often pled down to like manslaughter of some degree. You got voluntary, you got involuntary, um, I don't know why, but have you noticed

that phenomenon used to burn me up Like somehow, because the victim is really young and hadn't lived yet as an infant or really old, they don't matter anymore. Did you notice that? I'd love to see a statistic on that. Well, that's certainly the case. And I guess that's kind of driven by the value of the life at the time of the passing. You know, you indicated that he was bedridden.

That's not doing all the coverage of the event and her pictures seem to be a healthy. Sorry, him blowing off. Commercial break. The value of the life. you know what, you sound a lot like a civil lawyer right now where you try to get a money verdict from a jury and you ask the jury to put a dollar value on somebody's life. So what?

If they're old Jim Elliott, they're just not worth as much? Go ahead, put it out there. It's the usual measure of damages, Nancy, whether it's morally right or fits everyone's code of ethics or not. That's the way our system works. With regard to that measurement, That's what I'm talking about. Well, maybe for you, Jim Elliott, and you've won a lot of cases with civil juries.

And now I see why, because you actually said that like it's true. Just because it is done, Elliot, does not mean it should be done. That doesn't mean it's okay just because it happens. A dollar value on a life. That premise right there is concerning to me. But that said, Jim Elliott, I want you to tell you. me the truth. Isn't it true that when the victim is an infant and you don't have a whole lot of cute Christmas pictures and, you know, baptizing pictures and family pictures at Disney, all that,

and a really old victim, I am telling you it's anecdotal, not a statistic, that those plea deals are cheaper than they are for just to say a young, vibrant man or woman. Have you noticed that? Be honest. Yeah, I think it can be, I think with regard to the younger people, you can't really paint a picture of their life for the jury. That's what prosecutors would probably worry about with regard to an older person. Again, there's going to be this attitude that they live their life. And, you know, sadly, is it a great value in. That may be the attitude, Elliot, but don't bring it to crime stories.

Save it for your civil juries. Okay. I'm going to let Elliot sit there and think about what he just said and move this case forward. Listen. Arriving at the home at 7.52 a.m., Wichita Police find a woman outside the home with cuts on her hands and blood on her clothing. Inside, they find 81-year-old Anita Avers on responsive in her bed with multiple stab wounds. Both women are taking to the hospital. Officers went inside the residence, found an 81-year-old, elderly female,

suffering from multiple stab wounds. Both were transported to local hospitals. Back out to Melissa McCarty, joining us, an investigative reporter, host of The Killer Jeans podcast, which is awesome, Melissa McCarty, and author of The Making of a Crime Reporter. Melissa, what can you tell me about the victim's stabs? What have you learned? Anita Avers had multiple stab wounds to her as far as was an upper body, her face, the specific areas police haven't released that just yet. But she was attacked reportedly in her bed with multiple stab wounds. I want to talk about what Melissa McCarty just said.

Karen Stark joining me, a forensic psychologist, renowned TV radio trauma expert consultant at Karen Stark.com. if you're looking for her, it's Karen with a C. Karen, I want to talk to you about something that it shocked me to the court. And you know, Karen, you and I bonded together in very, very long hours in the dark at court TV studios where you and I would sit there. I believe there were three or four hours shifts we had, watching trials live and commenting on them whenever there would be a break. I, even after all that, after all the cases I've tried, after all the cases you have worked on, I was so shocked with the Brian Coburger attacks in that, well, many things, but the stabbing to the face of Kelly Gonzalez and Maddie, I believe Kelly Gonzalez was, she was stabbed multiple times, but in her face, but in her face, she was stabbed multiple times. But in her face alone, there were over 20 stab wounds. Now, I'm just a trial lawyer.

You're the shrink. But when a victim is stabbed repeatedly in the face, there has got to be a psychological motivation there. I don't know what it is, but I bet you do. That's rage, Nancy. And that's very symbolic because he's trying to wipe out her face. He's angry. even though he had no contact with her. This is a guy who just couldn't control himself when it came to her.

He was obsessed. And so you are wiping out the person. In some instances, a killer will put a cover over somebody's face, a pillow, something to hide them. They just don't want to see and they want to obliterate that person. She was beautiful. And that really disturbed him. Like, let me get rid of who she is and all her beauty because, She doesn't want me.

You know, another thing, Karen Stark, you know, my mom, who's going to be 94 in December, lives with us. The act of stabbing a little old lady in her bed, either bedridden or asleep, that's a whole other level of evil right there. Now, I know no one's life is. more valuable than another person's life. I don't care if we're talking about a movie star, TV star like Matthew Perry, or we're talking about this 81 year old ma. But to attack a completely defenseless person, that's a whole other can of worms psychologically. What is that? It's like shooting, killing a mockingbird. That's true. But we don't really know.

Nancy, what was going on inside of that person's head? Karen Stark, excuse me, one moment. Did I just hear you say, it matters what's going on inside that person's head? The stabber, the killer? I don't care what's going on in their head unless they're legally insane doesn't matter. You know how many years it took me to figure that out? It was either five or seven because I marked it. I would sit in court looking over.

at the defendant. Always a violent felon because everything else would get plet out. Thinking why, why would they do this? Finally, I think it was year five. I'm like, why am I asking why? It doesn't matter what's going on inside his head. I have a case to prove and I'm going to prove it. So are you as an 81 year old bedridden woman in her bed, stabbed multiple times, potentially in the face, and you want me to figure out what's going on in the killer's mind? Did you say that? No, I said we don't know what's going on, but what I was trying to say, Nancy, is that whoever this person was, they had tremendous, just like Goldberger, rage, rage to do so many stab wounds,

rage to boost somebody's space if that actually happened. Something was going on where they really did not want to make that person be recognizable. They were obsessed in this killing. That business idea you've been sitting on this new year.

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From our friends at Fox 2. With over a decade of experience as a broadcast journalist, Angie Mock was known for her hard-hitting reports on crime. Ironically, she now finds herself at the center of a murder case. Joining us, Melissa McCarty, reporter and host of the Killer Jeans, Melissa, both women. were transported to the hospital, describe their two injuries because they are diametrically opposed? Right. Anita Avers had multiple stab wounds and when she was transported, she ended up dying at the hospital was pronounced dead about 30 minutes later. Now, Angie Mock had some cuts on her hands and she was treated as well. And release, if I am not mistaken. She was treated and released. She was

treated and released. That's right. Very same day. Very same day. Can I see Melissa McCarty, please? Melissa McCarty, are you telling me that the 81-year-old mother was stabbed multiple times in the torso and possibly the face and dies and the glamorous TV anchor had some cuts on her hands? Is that right?

That's right. That's right. She was also covered in blood. covered in blood now i find it very curious to dave mac joining us crime stories investigative reporter very curious indeed how did the morning tv news anchor survive the attack with a few cuts on her hands and her mother bedridden is the target of a maniacal killer and is stabbed dead How does that happen? You know, Nancy, that's the question that they're going to have to answer very quickly

because she was able to get out of the house and wave down help. Remember, Angie Mock actually went out into the street, is waving down people for help and get the cell phone from somebody she doesn't even know, just gets it and runs back into the house. So she's still got plenty of energy. She's still able to get up and go and ask for help. and yet her mother is there in the bed having been muter massacred. So I don't know what exactly transpired, except she had plenty of energy to go out and get help for herself. Dave Mack, do you know what you just did to me?

When you're talking about her mother, I felt like I swallowed a lump of coal. Like something stuck in my throat. I just want to jump up and run to get to my mom and check on her. Okay, well, you just brought up something really interesting that I hadn't thought of. Not just that she survived the maniacal killer with a few cuts on her hands, but somehow was drenched in blood. Isn't that right, Melissa? That's a yes, no.

She's drenched in blood all over the front of her, right? Correct. Dave Mack back to you. So she's drenched in blood from what? The cuts on her hands, but you brought up that she's still an excellent condition, no, blow, blow, to the head, no gash, no wound to the back of her head. She is alert. She's not screaming.

Get the guy, get the guy, somebody broke in our house. Which reminds me, was there any sign of forced entry, Dave Mack at all? None. None whatsoever that we've been told about at this point, Nancy. And like you said, she's got plenty of time and energy to go around and go outside the house and seek help. so she's able to have her thoughts she's not she's not freaking out in that she cannot put a you know a thought together here she's able to go outside and get help and you know she didn't seem to be other than the blood on her hands doesn't seem to be impacted whatsoever you know that's

also curious you said she's not freaked out but she did run out of the house to borrow a stranger it was a neighbor but they didn't really know each other's phone grab the the neighbor's phone and then ran back into the home with it. I wonder why she didn't use a phone in the home or her own cell phone. I mean, I'm just trying to think this through, Dave. If I found someone injured in our home, I would not run out in the street to try to borrow somebody's phone that may or may not be out there. I would use the home phone if they have one or my cell phone. That's odd, isn't it?

Don't you find that odd? Is it odd? I found it odd that she ran outside the house because, Her mother is there in the bed, and as mentioned, she's got multiple stab wounds, but she doesn't have the wherewithal to get a phone in the house. I mean, come on, you've probably got in that home, you've probably still got a phone on the wall, not to mention several cell phones from the adults that are there in the home. But instead of any of that, she goes outside.

And all I'm thinking of, if we're maybe she was outside, afraid that the killer inside, I don't know, Nancy. It makes no sense. You wouldn't leave your mother in bed. Outside, afraid of the killer still in the house. I like that, Dave. You've got a future of fiction. Listen.

The 81-year-old Anita Avers found unresponsive in her bed with multiple stab wounds, transported to the hospital, as is her daughter, Angie Mock, the woman who approached police in the street when they arrived. Mock, a former television news anchor reporter, is treated and released from the hospital. Happy Facebook Friday to everyone, and welcome Angie Mott. Thank you. I'm so excited to be here, and I look forward to connecting with you guys out there in St. Louis. From Fox 2.

The former news anchor was living with her 80-year-old mother in their Wichita home. On Halloween night, the spotlight shifted dramatically onto Mock as events took a dark turn. A dark turn. Again, that's certainly putting perfume on the pig. dark turn. It sounds like a mystery novel. This is no mystery novel and it's not a dark turn. It's murder. And it's the murder of a defenseless 81 year old woman, apparently bedridden. You know, I just heard something. To Melissa McCarty, is it true that the glam morning TV anchor was living with her mother what in her mother's home? Whose home was that?

That's what it seems so. Police have not gone on the record to confirm it, but it seems as though they were living together. Hmm. Guys, what happened in that bedroom? How did Angeline Mock end up unscathed? She was treated. What, Jim Elliott? They sprayed a little backteen on her and went goodbye, goodbye. What? And the mother's dead? Stabbed multiple times. You don't have a problem. with that because I do. Well, so I think, you know, the difference is an 80 or 81 year a woman versus someone 20 or 30 years younger. The younger person could arguably be more able to defend herself than what's her mother. Okay, so you're saying she could defend herself. Okay, I see where you're going with that.

Dr. Priya Banerjee is with us. Dr. Priya, board certified forensic pathologist and anatomic pathologist with anchor forensic Pathology Consulting, let's just say she's seen a lot of dead bodies. Dr. Priya, what is the difference between a defensive stab wound and a stab wound you would get to your hands when you are the attacker, for instance, your hand sliding down the knife? Unless you're like Brian Coburger who had a K-bar knife, which has a hilt. What is a hilt? It looks like a cross. There is a section that turns the blade, it bisects it, and if you're the stabber, your hand would stop at the hilt. Okay. So if there is a knife that does not have a hilt, how can you tell the difference

between a wound sustained to the hand if you are the stabber versus a defensive wound? Well, I think that can be challenging. You need to look at where it is. If you're putting your hands up this way on the back, that is obviously defensive. You're not going to in any way have the knife, use the back of your hand to stab someone. Now, if it's on the palms, and it's really deep. Maybe you did have a grabbing motion where the knife slipped. Remember, repeated stabs make the knife bloody, would make it slippery. Earlier, you heard a veteran trial lawyer Jim Elliott describe why the morning TV news star could have escaped a deranged killer unscathed because she's 20 to 30 years younger than her 81-year-old mother. Typically, the state does not

have to prove a motive, but I'd be very curious to find out who would want to kill an 81-year-old little old lady asleep in bed. The degree of physical acumen, the lack of aging symptoms, being very, very physically active. Yes, I could see that as an excuse. Let's take a look at Angeline Mock. Phil Farrell's biggest fan, Angie Mock. Hey. You're a big fan, right? Oh, huge. I don't The Lambert Airport better get ready for me. You're going to be there, right? Yeah, I may.

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Last curve on. We'll straighten it out. Gee! That's scary. That's for our friends at Fox 2 News, and we showed you that to explain that Jim Elliott is absolutely correct. She's in great physical shape. So, is that how she escapes the deranged killer, and her mother does not?

To Melissa McCarty joining us from Killer Jeans. Was there a forced entry? Did first responders see? anyone leaving the home or did the neighbor who lent her cell phone to Mott? Did she see anyone leaving the home or a car speeding away? Anything like that? There was no forced entry and according to police there were two people Angie standing outside the home and her mom unresponsive inside the home. That's it. Did she make a statement at all to Dave Mack joining us investigative reporter crime stories? What if anything?

did Angie Mock have to say? Well, she hasn't made anything public that we're aware of and only getting secondhand information about what may or may not have been said to the 911 dispatcher. Well, you know what? I'm being very clear, Dave. What did she say? She said that she did it in self-defense, that she was trying to save her own life,

intimating that it was a fight with her mother. And she had to use the knife to protect herself. Angeline Mock, the morning TV news anchor, actually says she stabbed her mother in self-defense. I believe your eloquent words were she did it in self-defense. What? It was a killer be-kill situation? Is that what you're saying, Dave Mack? That is exactly what I.

I am saying that she claims. Oh, my stars, what a difference a knight can make. Check out Angie Mock in that photo. Ouch, there's a side by side. I don't want to be part of that. Okay, hold on. Jim Elliott, you're the veteran trial lawyer. I guess this is one of the reasons you tell your clients, shut your pie hole.

Is anybody going to be? believe that Angeline Mock was defending herself against her bedridden mother in a kill or be killed situation? I mean, how do you even look at a judge? She's going to have to explain that. And I mean, I guess they'll come up with some concept of who knows, physical or mental abuse over her lifetime or something of that sort that she may attribute it to. Okay. You know what, Jim Elliott. Now, again, you're just speeding it out. Put him out, please. Jim Elliott, you have children. I assume you read them the story of Rumpel Stiltskin. Yes, of course, yes.

Okay, so you know where I'm going with this. Rumpel Stiltskin took hay and he just spun it out into gold. And that's what you're doing right now. Now, do you, Jim Elliott, and again, you're a veteran trial lawyer. Your record shows you've won a lot of cases. You represent multiple state and local municipalities. You're actually somehow coming up with the theory that this anchor, can I see her please, that the TV anchor who can ad lib, who can read script, who can do all sorts of on-air antics, that she endured a lifetime of either physical, mental or emotional abuse. Did you just throw that out as a possibility, Jim Elliott?

It's a possibility, certainly. And we don't know exactly. I mean, all she said was to save myself. We don't know what that means. We don't know what that means physically, whether there were other issues that play in their relationship or in her life or in our mother's life. And I think that has to be fully explored before we can understand. But she's going to have to explain that.

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New customers start for free at go-dadi.com. That's go-dadi.com to get the lowest-priced website builder, guaranteed. crime stories with nancy grace i need a shrink karen stark i'll forego the drink and i'll stick with a shrink you know i don't want to hear about any of your specific clients but how many times do your clients blame a mommy you know i've started a fund for my daughter and son for a shrink someday because i'm sure they're going to blame it everything on me. Yes, mommy told me I was filling the blank. My mommy made me fill in that blank. It's all mommy's fault. Did you hear Elliot? The woman is bedridden. She's 81 years old.

I don't know what she told you when you were five years old to stand up straight and eat your vegetables. What? Did you hear that? Because that's where this is going. It doesn't make any sense. It really, if you think about it, yes, mothers, fathers, they really, they really, affect their children growing up and that's a fact whatever is going on but this is we're talking now about an adult and a mother who is 80 81 there is no reason for that to still be held over and something that's in her psyche at this point she's gone on with her life and she should be doing really well and not be blaming anybody because she's independent Karen you keep talking about it in her mind we don't need

even know if there is anything that the now dead mom did the 81 year old for all I know she was an incredible mom we're just you are actually buying into Jim Elliott's theory that maybe maybe this woman was emotionally abused by her mom for years and years and years so she just had to stab her dead well that's the whole point it doesn't matter what their relationship was like it really doesn't Nancy because at this stage in her life She's a functioning, we assume, adult, and she should not be carrying any kind of feelings about her mother that's interfering or would make her, who would do that, stab their own mother? That hardly ever happens. Police responded to a reported stabbing at Mock's residence.

Angelin was found outside, claiming she acted in self-defense after stabbing her mother. Inside, officers discovered her mother in bed, suffering from multiple stab rooms. Okay, this is a tactic that will likely be used by the state if this case goes forward. All of the clips that we're showing you, every word Angie Mock has uttered on air will be combed through and used, if possible in court, to show that she was in her right mind. I mean, well, this is why there's got to be a mental defect defense because she, blurted it out at the get-go. Listen. I've heard you have to stab the mother to save herself.

And the Polly-Braid is originally about five to six nights. And that's probably with her mom. She's also entered as well and other weapons in the home. This was good, wasn't it? Yeah, oh, it was wonderful. Family was in town. They're leaving today. I don't know where my tissues are.

That's all right. Families in town, they're leaving today. That was from our friends at K-A-K-E and Fox 2. I want to hear that one more time. What she said, on the scene or to the 911 dispatch and then her

crying about her family leaving after the holiday let's watch that one more time I have to stab the mother to save herself and the Ploidavides is right about five to six knives and that's currently with her mom she's also injured as well

and other weapons in the home this was good was it? Yeah oh it was wonderful family was in town they're leaving today I don't know where my tissues are that's all right yeah they don't have those fancy soft ply tissues behind bars

Ms. Mock. That's from K.A.K.E. and Fox, too. Okay, Dan Murphy, former NYPD, Detective Sargent, and so much more, author of Workplace Safety, co-host Gold Shields podcast. It goes on and on and on. Thoughts. There's so many thoughts about this.

When she came out of the house and said what she said, allegedly, she's putting herself as the person responsible for it. The reasons for it can get figured out later. When you look at this situation, and she's living with her mother for whatever reason. Maybe as a caretaker, maybe a financial need. Probably rent-free. I'll just throw that in.

Go ahead. Sorry. Oh, that's where our friends at Fox 2, everybody. I'm sorry, Dan, go ahead. It looks as though life has dealt her a very bad set of hand, bad hand, so to speak, set of cards. She does not look like the same person. Something is on a downslide.

Maybe she blames the mother for things in her life, sees the mother as holding her back in many reasons. I would love to know the story, the true dynamic in the relationship, why she's living there, what cause this, has there been any other domestic calls there? What would lead her to this? Maybe it's narcissism. Maybe she sees her as being... Dan Murphy, I'm sorry, but are you a mental health professional?

Because I thought you were former NYPD detective sergeant. I am, which is equivalent to a master's in psychology in many ways. Dan, okay, you and I both know that motive is not required. I don't care. I mean, my, my non-prosecutor side does care, but I'm talking about the facts that we're going to put in front of a jury. I am asking you, you're the former NYPD, and I keep saying that because you have more cases than practically any other jurisdiction in the country that you have handled personally

analyze the facts we'll deal with her mental defect defense that she's really painted herself in a corner with because she came out with self-defense so she's stuck with it that's not going away she admitted she did it

in self-defense of course I don't believe that and I want to hear what you think about the facts not your amateur opinion, as mine would be too. I'm not a shrink about why she did it. Why does somebody stab a bedridden 81 year old woman? Don't care. The bare fax scene. Cops get to the scene. She lives in the home with the mother and she is covered in blood, which is indicative of somebody who was either embraced a dead body covered in blood or somebody who themselves was responsible for it.

the blood comes out, arterial spurts and things like that. Second, she's got defensive wounds potentially or potentially from a hands sliding down on a knife that's being in a frenzied attack being used to attack somebody. She makes a statement indicating she did it. There's no evidence of entry by anyone else into the residence. She's the only person responsible. She's taking responsibility. The mother is bedridden and couldn't possibly have posed a threat with a knife to her daughter. Fairfax. No other suspect. Here's a look at her top stories. Several victims survive a hail of bullets in two separate shootings, but those shootings were at the exact same location. A glamorous TV news anchor, Mock stands charged with first-degree murder for the fatal stabbing of her 81-year-old mother, Anita Avers.

Mock is being held in the Sedgwick County Jail on a $1 million bail. From Fox 2. At this hour, as of tonight, when we go to air, this case is still being built by L.E. Law Enforcement. if you know or think you know anything about the death of this 81-year-old mom, please dial Witchaw PD 316-268-4-1-1-1. Repeat, 316-28-4-1-1-1. And remember, evil comes in many forms. Do you think the devil always shows up at a tux?

No. Don't be fooled by a killer's appearance, even if she's a glamorous morning TV anchor. Doesn't matter. Try to keep your mind on the victim. Maybe like your own mother, 81 bedridden stabbed multiple times. Keep that thought in your head. We remember an American hero detective corporal Christopher Mock, St. Lucie County sheriffs. Killed in the light of duty.

After 21 years on the force, leaving behind, a wife turned widow, Jennifer, and two grieving children. American hero, Detective Corporal Christopher Mock. Nancy Grace, signing off. Goodbye, friend. That business idea you've been sitting on, this new year, stop waiting for the perfect time. GoDaddy Arrow uses AI to build your website, logo, and marketing in minutes, not months. No tech skills. No excuses. Just your idea made real. Get started at godaddy.com with GoDaddy Arrow.

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