A newly filed police affidavit offers insight into the mental state of former news anchor Angelynn “Angie” Mock in the days leading up to the fatal stabbing of her mother.
Mock, a former television news anchor and reporter in St. Louis, was arrested on Friday, Oct. 31, after she allegedly stabbed her mother, 80-year-old Anita Avers, to death at the family’s home in Wichita, Kan., according to authorities.
Mock, 47, has been charged with first-degree murder and is being held on $1 million bond, per county records.
In a probable cause affidavit dated Nov. 4 and filed by a Wichita Police Department detective, investigators allege that Mock called 911 and told dispatchers that her “mother tried to kill her, so she stabbed her in return.”
When officers arrived at the home just before 8 a.m., they found Mock standing outside, bleeding and holding a towel.
Inside, officers found Anita lying on her bed with multiple stab wounds to her head, face and torso.
“Next to Anita on the bed, [an officer] located multiple kitchen style knives and a cheese grater, laid out on a pillow,” the affidavit states. “All the utensils had blood on them…the top sheet had at least 12 holes in the top half of the sheet, consistent with those caused by a knife.”
When an officer asked what had happened, Mock allegedly said she had gone into her mother’s room “to talk and saw her sharpening knives,” according to the affidavit. She claimed her mother then came toward her with a knife.
“Angelynn was stronger so she pushed her back,” the affidavit continues. “Her mother then said, ‘I know you’re f—ing Jesus Christ,’ so she backed away…Angelynn said her mother started ‘spewing venom at me out of her f—ing mouth,’ so she had to stab her to save herself.”
Mock allegedly later told authorities she went to speak with her mother about an upcoming job interview with a television station and again found her “sharpening knives with bigger knives,” according to the filing.
She allegedly claimed her mother chased her around the house. “She said, ‘I had to kill her, she wasn’t going to stop,’” the affidavit notes. “Angelynn first said she stabbed first but later said her mother stabbed first.”
Mock was transported to a hospital, where she was treated for cuts to both hands and to the inside of her right arm.
Anita’s husband, Barry, told officers that Mock moved in with the couple four or five years earlier after she lost her job due to what he described as “an explosive situation involving alcohol,” according to the affidavit.
Barry said Anita had encouraged her daughter at the time to seek help from a psychiatrist.
“Barry remembered Angelynn was originally diagnosed with bipolar disorder but was later revised to schizoaffective disorder,” the affidavit states. “To his knowledge, Angelynn was on medication, but he did not know what type and only assumed she took it as prescribed. She also had angry outbursts, but he never felt she was violent or felt threatened.”
Barry also recalled that his stepdaughter had an “explosive outburst” a few years prior that led to a roughly two-week hospitalization.
He described another episode three or four weeks before Anita’s death, when Mock allegedly yelled at the family during a card game. “She accused the family of hating her and she said she hated everyone,” according to the affidavit.
Barry said he had heard Mock make disturbing statements in the past, including, “They’re all robots” and “They’re not real people.”
After Mock was treated at the hospital, she was taken to the police station for a formal interview, according to the affidavit.
“Angelynn made multiple statements, talking to herself, where she believed her mother was the devil,” the document states. She allegedly said, “I’d kill that b—- to have my mom back any day. I don’t even know who she is anymore. I know, I believe she is the devil.”
According to KWCH, a competency hearing was ordered for Mock last week.
