A former St. Louis news anchor will serve life in prison after pleading guilty to stabbing her 80-year-old mother to death on Halloween, saying she believed the woman was the devil.

Angelynn “Angie” Mock, 48, was sentenced Monday in Wichita, Kansas, for the killing of her mother, Anita Avers, a marriage and family therapist. Judge Jeffrey Goering imposed a life term with parole eligibility after 25 years, and Mock said she would not appeal.

KAKE reported that Mock stabbed Avers 12 times in her bed in their Wichita home on Halloween, almost exactly a year before the sentencing. Avers died at a hospital. Court records described a case built on a guilty plea, not a full trial fight over the core facts.

Mock had worked as a news anchor at Fox 2 in St. Louis from 2011 to 2015. The jump from local TV talent to a first-degree murder plea is the kind of collapse that leaves families and viewers searching for answers that never fully come.

Court documents showed Mock believed her mother was the devil and that she had to kill her. Her stepfather told investigators she had been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and suffered from delusions. That history does not erase the body count or the blood left behind in a family home.

Halloween attack left an 80-year-old dead in her own bed

Fox News reported that officers found Avers dead from multiple stab wounds on Oct. 31 while Mock was outside with cuts on her hands. Under the plea terms, the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office said Mock faced life in prison with parole eligibility after 25 years. A probable cause affidavit said she told authorities she killed her mother to “save herself.”

Mock pleaded guilty in August to first-degree murder. The court process still had to weigh a mental fitness evaluation before the case moved to sentencing. Accountability remained the end point once the plea was entered.

Media careers can end in scandal or quiet exits, as when Fox News described a prime-time host’s departure as a business decision amid separate controversy. Mock’s case is different. It ended in a Wichita courtroom with a life sentence and a family forced to speak about scrubbing blood off the walls.

The New York Post reported additional statements attributed to Mock about the killing and her mother.

She said:

"I had to kill her, she wasn’t going to stop."

And:

"I’d kill that b**** to have my mom back any day. I don’t even know who she is anymore."

Those words sat beside the court-document account that she cast her mother as the devil. The plea locked in the legal result. It did not restore an 80-year-old woman to her home.

Stepsister told the court what the cleanup required

Sonja Kreutziger, Mock’s stepsister and Avers’ stepdaughter, addressed the court directly. She described what the family faced the day after the stabbing, when the house still held the evidence of the attack.

Kreutziger told the court:

"My husband and I helped dad clean up the mess the next day. I scrubbed blood off the floors, walls, and curtains, my husband and a friend of the family removed the mattress and a bedroom carpet."

She continued:

"By god's grace, we were able to remove the ugliness of the act to give daddy's house back. However, there is nothing that can bring back the home that it was. There is no way to make sense of what happened that morning."

Family members became the cleanup crew. They pulled out a mattress and carpet so a widower could stay in his own house. No sentence hands that morning back to them.

High-profile television names surface in grim legal stories more often than audiences expect, including cases far from Wichita, such as coverage of a former Fox producer’s death after a long legal fight. Mock’s victims were not network executives or cable rivals. They were her mother and the relatives left to bleach floors.

Guilty plea closed the case short of a full trial fight

Mock’s August guilty plea to murdering Avers removed the need for a jury to sort every disputed detail in open court. Judge Goering’s Monday sentence matched the plea range: life, with a first shot at parole after 25 years. Mock’s decision not to appeal ended the appellate track before it started.

Court records tied the motive language to her stated belief that Avers was the devil and had to die. The stepfather’s statement to investigators put a clinical label on the record, schizoaffective disorder and delusions, without turning the stabbing into a victimless event. Avers still died in a hospital after 12 wounds in her own bed.

Criminal cases involving TV personalities invite side debates about fame and fairness, much as old clippings have been used to challenge a daytime host’s story about a killer’s jury outcome. This file is simpler. A daughter killed her mother, pleaded guilty, and received a life term.

Local anchor work is a trusted job in most markets. Viewers let those faces into living rooms at dinner hour. That trust does not grant a pass when court documents describe a Halloween stabbing and a defendant who said she had to “save herself.”

Network talent fights and lineup changes dominate media coverage on slower days, including news that a Fox host earned a full-time seat on a flagship panel. None of that industry noise reaches the level of a stepsister scrubbing blood from curtains so her father could live with less of the physical wreckage.

Life term puts the focus back on victims and consequences

Avers was 80. She worked as a marriage and family therapist. She was killed in bed in the Wichita home she shared in family life with Mock and with the husband who later helped face investigators and the cleanup.

The state did not treat the case as a paperwork exercise. First-degree murder was the charge tied to the plea. The judge’s sentence kept Mock under custody for life, with the earliest parole review a quarter-century out. That is the concrete cost attached to 12 stab wounds and a hospital death on Halloween.

Mental illness appears in the file through the stepfather’s account and the fitness evaluation path before the plea. Serious disorder can explain confusion in a defendant’s mind. It does not revise the victim’s age, the weapon count, or the family’s next-day labor with blood, a mattress, and a ruined carpet.

Kreutziger’s court statement stripped away any soft focus. The house could be scrubbed. The home, she said, could not be given back. That gap is what a life sentence is supposed to answer when a guilty plea has already admitted the killing.

Law-and-order basics still apply when the defendant once read news copy on television. Equal rules mean a former anchor faces the same charging ladder, the same plea consequences, and the same sentencing range as any other adult who stabs a parent to death. Wichita’s court kept that line.

When celebrities and cable brands collide with hard news, the country often gets spin first and facts second, including political fights in which past presidents have sparred over treatment of Fox News. Mock’s case did not turn on press access. It turned on a dead mother, a guilty plea, and a judge who imposed life.

Families who bury an 80-year-old after a bedroom stabbing are the people owed clarity. They got a conviction path, a recorded sentence, and a defendant who waived appeal. They also got the permanent absence Kreutziger described when she said no one could make sense of that morning.

Justice here is not complicated theater. It is a life term for a murder plea, entered after a daughter killed her mother and left relatives to clean the blood.