Angelynn Mock
Introduction
Angelynn “Angie” Mock is a former television morning news anchor who worked for years in the St. Louis and Oklahoma City markets before her arrest for the Halloween 2025 murder of her 80-year-old mother, Anita Avers, at their home in Wichita, Kansas . Mock, 48, told investigators she killed her mother because she believed she was “the devil,” according to a probable cause affidavit reported by the New York Post . She pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in August 2026, and on October 5, 2026, a Sedgwick County District Court judge sentenced her to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 years . Unlike the unadjudicated cases this site usually documents, this is a conviction entered on her own plea.
Background Information
Mock worked as a morning news anchor at KTVI in St. Louis from 2011 to 2015 and later at KOKH in Oklahoma City; by the time of the killing she had left broadcasting and was working in sales at a data management software company . Her stepfather, Barry Avers, told investigators she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder that was later revised to schizoaffective disorder, and that she suffered from delusions and depression . He said she would spiral into delusional states in which she claimed people around her were “robots” and “not real people,” said she spoke to God, and called herself the Anti-Christ, becoming upset when others did not believe her . Years earlier she had been held at a psychiatric hospital for roughly two weeks after an explosive outburst, and the most recent episode her stepfather could recall came three or four weeks before the killing, when she erupted at family members during a card game; he said she was taking medication and prone to angry outbursts but had never been violent .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Conviction. Mock pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in August 2026 and was sentenced on October 5, 2026. The statements quoted below are hers, from a probable cause affidavit and statements to investigators reported in court coverage; because the case ended in a plea, the facts were never tested at trial.
Officers found Anita Avers in her bed with multiple stab wounds on the morning of October 31, 2025, and found her daughter outside the house with cuts on her hands . According to the affidavit, Mock told investigators: “I’d kill that bitch to have my mom back any day. I don’t even know who she is anymore,” and “I know, I believe she’s the devil” .
Mock’s account to investigators was that she had gone to her mother’s room to talk about an upcoming job interview at Wichita news station KSN and found her sharpening knives . She initially accused her mother of coming at her with a blade and of telling her, “I know you’re f–king Jesus Christ,” before saying she grabbed the knife, pinned her mother down and stabbed her, claiming she had no choice: “I had to kill her, she wasn’t going to stop” .
The courts moved through competency before the plea. In January 2026 Mock was found not mentally fit to stand trial, and a judge ordered her to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation and treatment, pausing the criminal proceedings . In July 2026 a Sedgwick County District Court judge found her competent to stand trial, reversing that ruling . She pleaded guilty in August 2026 to one count of first-degree murder . On October 5, 2026, the judge sentenced her to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The sentencing drew national coverage that dwelt on the distance between Mock’s former life and her current one — a morning-anchor seat in two mid-size markets exchanged for a life sentence — and on the grotesque content of her statements to police, which the New York Post’s headline summarized as killing her mother because she believed she was “the devil” . Local coverage in Wichita, where the killing happened, focused on the procedural arc: the competency fight, the July reversal, the August plea, and a sentence that followed what KWCH called what was “presumed after Mock’s guilty plea” . Neither outlet quoted a statement from Mock at the sentencing hearing. The Sedgwick County District Attorney’s office announced the sentence publicly, per KWCH’s report of the hearing outcome .
Current Status
As of October 6, 2026, Mock is serving a life sentence in Kansas, ineligible for parole for 25 years, following her October 5 sentencing . The guilty plea closed the criminal case; no appeal had been reported by the time this page was written. This page will be updated if post-sentencing proceedings emerge.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Mock’s broadcasting career is over in fact as well as name: the KTVI and KOKH anchor desk now precedes, in every account of her life, a booking photo and a life sentence, and the job interview she told investigators she was preparing for — at Wichita’s KSN — was with a station in the market where she killed her mother . The case stands as an extreme record of untreated schizoaffective illness inside a family that, by the stepfather’s own account, had watched her deteriorate for years while she remained, in his words, never violent until the morning she was .