26 Of Theresa Knorr Podcasts Interviews

Despite that, she was reportedly close to her mother and was thus heartbroken when she died of heart failure in early 1961. Therefore, even though she was just 16, when Theresa found a partner, she got married and left home in 1962. After a brief pause, Theresa ordered the other children to carry their injured sister to the bathroom and place her in the tub. Theresa did not want the police involved, so an ambulance was out of the question. The bullet had not passed through Suesan's body, but it was too deep to remove from the open wound.

Rather than spend the day with her and the baby, Clifford went out drinking with his friends. Later that evening, he strolled in drunk and Theresa boiled over. She berated him for neglecting his family and wasting their much-needed money on booze.

In 1971 they married and shortly after purchased a house in east Sacramento. To outsiders they seemed like a perfect family, but before long history began to repeat itself and Theresa began treating Ronald as a possession rather than a partner. Just as she did with Estelle Thornsberry, Theresa began leaving her children at home with Ronald while she went out and partied.

She, however, soon accused Sheilah of becoming pregnant as well as catching an STI which she said she has contracted from their home toilet seat. Theresa however, first got rid of her second daughter, Suesan in the most bizarre manner. Among the numerous incredible accusations she heaped upon Suesan was that her last husband, Chester turned her into a witch and that she is using her witchcraft to make her gain weight.

Neither of the boys was interested in talking with investigators, but both eventually relented and confessed to their involvement in both of their sister's deaths. Five days later, California investigators received a call from Salt Lake City authorities, telling them that Theresa had been traced by a driver's license application. She had also been arrested just five days earlier for drunk driving. Sergeant John Fitzgerald of the Placer County Sheriff's Office flew to Salt Lake and headed for the address listed on Theresa's license application. Surprisingly, Theresa answered without hesitation and was then arrested. Theresa was aware of the investigation and was in the process of seekers crime packing her belongings.

Theresa and Terry apparently did not know they lived in close proximity and had no contact. In July 1984, Knorr and Suesan got into another argument during which Knorr stabbed her daughter in the back with a pair of scissors. A few weeks after the stabbing, Suesan, fed up with the abuse, decided to move to Alaska. Knorr agreed to let her go under the condition that Suesan allow her to remove the bullet from her back so it could not be used as evidence in the event that Suesan reported the abuse.

Theresa was unemployed and was on state assistance; to increase the household income she forced Sheila, then a 20-year old, to become a prostitute. Initially horrified, Sheila didn’t have the courage to disobey her and soon she was earning quite a lot. A fed-up Suesan requested permission and surprisingly obtained her mother’s consent to move out. There was one rider, though; the bullet lodged in Suesan’s back had to be removed first.

She later refered to this injury as the source of her destructive future conduct. As Nannie and her three sisters hit their teenage years, their father disallowed his four daughters from wearing makeup or alluring attire. This was with the goal that they were not depicted as promiscuous. Additionally, he stressed about them being molested by older men.