12/05/2023
Good evening dear friends.Tonight I thought I would remind everyone of this demon in a dress. Her name is Theresa Knorr. Theresa is an American woman convicted of torturing and murdering two of her six children while forcing her other children to help facilitate and cover up her crimes. For years, Theresa abused and tortured her children in horrifying ways. She would beat them, handcuff them to furniture, force-feed them, burn them in various ways, throw knives at them and lock them in closets for days on end. And that was not even the ad stuff she pulled. Of her six children, the two oldest girls,Sheila and Suesan, got the brunt of her maddness, not that any were safe in her presence. She hated these kids. Theresa also believed that her last husband, Chet Harris, had turned Suesan into a witch, so Suesan was the recipiant of the worst of Knorr's abuse. After attempting to run away, Theresa handcuffed Suesan to the kitchen table and ordered her other children to stand watch over her. She forced Suesan to drop out of school and forbade her to leave the house. Knorr then pulled all of her children out of school.
For two years, Theresa handcuffed Suesan under the dining room table. She would hand feed her from time to time, but she wore a mouth gag constantly. One morning Theresa went on a rampage. She uncuffed Suesan and made her daughter Terry a hold a gun to his sister's head. A noise spooked Terry and the gun went off, the bullet entering Suesan. Knorr immediately rechained Suesan under the table. Theresa refused to take her daughter to the hospital. Suesan survived the shooting but attempts by Robert, at Theresa's demand, to remove the bullet led to sepsis. On July 16, 1984, Theresa packed all of Suesan's belongings in trash bags and, after binding her arms and legs and placing duct tape over her mouth, ordered her sons Robert and William to put Suesan in their car. They drove her to Squaw Valley, where Robert and William placed her on the side of the road on top of the bags containing her belongings. Knorr then doused the bags and Suesan, who was still alive, in gasoline and set fire to them. Then she drove away.
Theresa than began directing the majority of her anger and abuse towards her daughter Sheila. After one violent arguement, Theresa beat Sheila nearly to death. She hog tied her daughter and locked her in a hot closet with no ventilation. Knorr forbade her other children to give her food or water or to even open the closet door. Terry disobeyed her mother however and gave Sheila a beer. Sheila died three days later, on June 21, 1985, of dehydration and starvation. Theresa left her daughter's body to rot for three more days. Theresa ordered her sons to dispose of their sister's body. They placed Sheila's body in a cardboard box and dumped it near the Truckee-Tahoe Airport. Her body was discovered within hours but was never positively identified and was classified as Jane Doe #6607-85.
With two daughter's now dead by her hand, Theresa decided to run. But the surviving children decided to run from her rather than with her. After escaping from her mother, Terry phoned America's Most Wanted and spilled the Knorr children's nightmare to detectives in Placer County, California, where Suesan's body had been found. Placer County detectives took her claims seriously and followed up with an investigation, soon linking the two Jane Does found in the area in 1984 and 1985 to Terry's detailed stories of her sisters' deaths. On November 15, 1993, Theresa Knorr was charged with two counts of murder, two counts of conspiracy to commit murder, and two special circumstances charges: multiple murder and murder by torture. Knorr initially pleaded not guilty, but then made a deal with the prosecution after learning that her son Robert Jr. had agreed to testify against her in exchange for a reduced sentence. She pleaded guilty on the condition that she be spared the death penalty. On October 17, 1995, Knorr was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences.
Theresa Knorr was not a woman to mess with. When she said she'd beat you to death, she meant it and all of her children understood she'd do so much worse