Crime
Former TV Anchor Angelynn Mock Accused of Murdering Mom on Halloween
Former television news anchor Angelynn Mock has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder following the fatal stabbing of her mother, Anita Avers, in Wichita, Kansas.
According to the Wichita Police Department as per the CBS affiliate KWCH-DT, officers responded at about 7:52 a.m. on Friday, October 31 to a reported “cutting” incident. On arrival they located Mock outside the residence with visible cuts on her hands.
Inside they discovered that Avers, 80, was lying in bed with multiple stab wounds. She was transported to a local hospital and pronounced dead at 8:26 a.m. that morning.
A neighbor identified as Alyssa Castro told local ABC affiliate KAKE-TV that a woman, later identified as Mock, 47, approached her car covered in blood and asked her to call 911. Castro said that Mock then took the phone and entered the home to report the incident herself, according to KAKE-TV.
Police have reported that Mock told dispatchers she stabbed her mother “to save herself.”
Avers had been a marriage and family therapist in Wichita.
Mock’s career in broadcasting spanned nearly 13 years before she transitioned into data management consulting. She worked as a morning anchor for the St. Louis Fox affiliate KTVI‑TV from 2011 to 2015 and held earlier television roles in Oklahoma City and elsewhere.
She is being held in the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office jail on a $1 million bond.
At this time no court date has been publicly disclosed and the motive remains under investigation.
