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Published : Tuesday 21 July 2015
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The true story of Theresa Knorr, the twisted child abuser who murdered her daughtersâ?"with the help of her sonsâ?"told by a former New York Times reporter. A In June 1985, Theresa Cross Knorr dumped her daughter Sheilaâ?Ts body in Californiaâ?Ts desolate High Sierra. She had beaten Sheila unconscious in their Sacramento apartment days earlier, then locked her in a closet to die. But this wasnâ?Tt the first horrific crime sheâ?Td committed against her own children. A The previous summer, Knorr had shot Sheilaâ?Ts sister Suesan, then ordered her son to dig the bullet out of the girlâ?Ts back with a knife to hide the evidence. The infection that resulted led to deliriumâ?"at which point Knorr and her two sons drove Suesan into the mountains, doused her with gasoline, and set her on fire. A It would be almost a decade before her youngest daughter, Terry Knorr Graves, revealed her motherâ?Ts history of unfathomable violence. At first, she was met with disbelief by law enforcement and even her own therapist. But eventually, the truth about her monstrous abuse emergedâ?"and here, an award-winning journalist details the jealousy, rage, and domineering behavior that escalated into homicide and shattered a family.A A A former reporter for the New York Times and Los AngelesTimes and the author of true-crime classics including Angel of Darkness, about serial killer Randy Kroft, and Blood Cold, about Robert Blake and Bonny Lee Bakley, Dennis McDougal reveals the shocking depths of depravity behind a case that made headlines across the nation. A
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