Theresa Knorr : Murder Mother Extraordinaire
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- Опубликовано: 23 апр 2023
- Theresa Knorr had six children and she abused them all, but she didn't stop there. She tortured two of her daughters so badly, that she ended up killing them.
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Could've all been avoided if the jury got it right when she shot and killed her husband way back in her teenage years
I still can't comprehend how she got out of that one...
@@immir6647 whether people like to recognize it or not, white woman tears. They have a level of privilege due to being uniquely protected by the same aspects of systemic discrimination that disadvantage a person of color (especially a man) or often even a white man of lower socioeconomic standing, benefit a woman that identifies as white. They are protected in every area of life, and it only takes crying and playing the victim to get out of even the most dire legal consequences.
@@immir6647 I know right!?
Yeah I wonder what they think about their verdict now
@@immir6647 young petit mother. Jury probably just didn’t think she could kill her bigger and tougher husband
Shout-out to the real hero of this story: Terri. No matter how much people wrote off her story and thought she was simply lying, she didn't give up until her sisters got the justice that they deserved. Bless her heart, and I hope she has found peace now ❤ RIP to her and her sisters.
The BEST comment...thank you for honoring her 🤝❤️🔥
I agree - Bless them. In God's loving care now ♥️
@Akash Sharma And yet, she wasn't lying, sooooo... your point is moot.
Its...its not moot though. Shes saying that many people after being told over and over that the story they're telling is bs and that they are lying, might just give up, fearing no one is going to believe them anyway so what is the point. So she is applauding Terri for persevering until she was believed and the justice her sisters deserved could be achieved. Do you understand what I mean? I can't tell if you're being obtuse or you genuinely didn't understand why her comment was not, in fact, a moot point.
💯💯💯‼️
The fact that her daughter’s friend just thought she might like some of her old clothes and she automatically interpreted it as a slight against her goes to show what a nasty narcissist she is.
I am in awe of Terri’s strength and determination to get justice for her older sisters. What a cruel life those children endured.
What angers me the most is the undeniable damage to her psyche that Terri has to suffer from. That, and the stolen lives and opportunities those girls should have experienced. What could Terri possibly have become had she been treated with affection and nurturing? Who could the other women have become? Might they have discovered the cure for cancer or diabetes? Become Dr's who potentially saved thousands of folks under their care? It's just so tragic and so not necessary...to US! But not to that narcissist, entitled, liar...so filled with hatred and jealousy and fear that her own children might make something of themselves in spite of her..."mothering!"
Why couldn't she just focus on living her own life tho, why does she have to destroy her own mother like that? Theresa could have lived a long and prosperous life without her nosy interference.
I can't imagine what it would be like to not be believed like her. Repeatedly.
@@lilithdvs13I hope you're being sarcastic?
@@lilithdvs13 I hope you never have any children
It is crazy to me that child protective services see signs of abuse, the child tells them about abuse and BEGS to be protected, and all it took to return her to the abusive household was their mom saying "nah she made it up". There are so many cases like this, it's horrible
I got that all the time when my grandmother abused me, and I told teachers.
@@IndelibleSin317I hope you managed to eventually get the help you needed. There are just some people in this world that just shouldn’t be parents (or grandparents).
I'm not saying that most cases should be ignored or thought are fake when I say this. Unfortunately, a lot of young kids/teens will cry abuse when there is none, so it's understandable to see this as just another kid crying wolf. While a little digging could have prevented this, I see how someone could have misread the situation. The unfortunate reality we live in has the effect for these things to go un noticed. I'm glad that it eventually came to light though.
It was different back then. Lots of abuses slipped through the crack
@@garydustin I did, I left at 16 and never looked back.
having a psychopathic mother is the saddest card the universe can deal to a child....
Vicious POS. May she suffer into eternity.
Yes it’s is and some are lucky to have grate parents. I had a mother just like this she ended up when I became a little older seeing a psychiatrist. But when I was younger she beat me every night drunk and my dad use to watch and dad se.ually Abu.ed me and my mom just kept beating me and then my little brother . I ended up running away for 2 years at 13 when I was in n street I nearly gotten ra.e but luckily I got away he kept me locked up for 3 days I escaped out as usual I carried on normal . But now I’m grown with 3 boys one 24 21 and 15 and i have done my best I’m 41 now and brother 37 with 2 boys and a girl we have both a peaceful happy life in UK England .😊 so now I have the peace card finally.
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@@vanessaburridge2779God bless you. 😢So sorry your parents were worse then animals 😢 my respect for you & brother for breaking that cursed cycle of evil. Glad you both are good parents and giving your children a better life then what you both experienced,God bless.
Yes! When my mother died I got a lot of s*** because I didn't cry all over the place. I felt nothing and still don't. She was an abusive, raging alcoholic and hated me and never let me forget it by her beatings. My sister on the other hand praised my abuser and told me to "get over it" screw them both. I could never hurt my boys like these creeps did. The cycle of abuse needs to be broken. IMO there is no excuse to abuse a child. They're gifts. The worst part is when the child asks for help and these idiots don't/won't listen until it's too late.
I burst into tears just by the end, the fact that Terri couldn’t live a life even when she was out of danger, and passing away at 41 while the monster of her “mother” is still alive and well fed (thing she didn’t do with her daughters) it’s just not fair. It isn’t.
Yeah Theresa's case is one of few where I think she deserves the death penalty she killed multiple people and ruined the lives of many and on top of that physically and mentally abused her own children everything she did was completely inexcusable and she shows no remorse and I don't see her ever being rehabilitated because she doesn't deserve it again her case is one of few that I wholeheartedly think the death penalty is most appropriate but because the law is sexist and stupid she got the verdict she didn't deserve her crimes didn't fit her punishment at all but may she rot in jail though.
I agree.
My eyes welled up several times during. Just tragic and wrong.
Yes, very sad and painful. I think more people need to know how messed up some upbringings are and how childhood trauma affects the ability to live a fulfilling live. It is just not true that an individual is solely responsible for his/her happyness, we all as humans need to chip in with love and empathy. Some people have a horrible life from the get go and can do little about it.
Terri RIP - her mom was disgusting
CPS blew it with Susan. Poor girl begged them to help and they saw what she looked like and yet they believed the mothers lies. I didn't know the daughter Terry passed away. I remember seeing her on TV talking about all of this. RIP Terry and hopefully you are reunited with your sisters.
CPS always blows it. Every single time.
I've never seen a time that CPS DIDN'T blow it! They should have enough sense to NOT question children with their parents presence in the same room! How many innocent children have to die before CPS learns a lesson??!?
They will take children AWAY from the parents who have done nothing wrong simply on the word of a person that has a beef against the parents, without any proof whatsoever! Then put them in a foster home where they will probably be molested and neglected by foster parents just wanting a CHECK every month🙄😡...but they won't believe the word of a child that is actually being abused and neglected.
@Jami Moor Couldn't have said it better myself. They took my siblings away where my little sister was raped by her foster dad before her foster parents divorced and disowned her leaving her to go to another family and my little brothers got taken by the mom to georgia. I finally reconnected with my little sister after 10 years, and I still haven't been able to meet my little brothers again.
There was absolutely no reason to take them away, put them in so much danger, and leave me so alone. If CPS really cared, they would have seen the way my dad treated me and I would have been there with them. Or at least able to visit them. Nah. They're in the business of tearing families apart.
@Sara YES because that’s what CPS is for ……NOT TO MENTION ….they fail if they are blatantly told of abuse and see it and believe the parent and send the child BACK…….you must be kidding …..they fail more than they save and even ONE failure of a child is ENOUGH
It's sickening that Terri's life was cut short while her monster of a mother continues to live while enjoying friendships. How is that fair??
It's life, and life isn't fair.
Judgement day is coming.
Poor girl lived a tragic life after leaving home. Dealing with addictions and the depression and then dying so young
I love the way CPS just ignores children
alot of them are idiots
Absolutely shocking case that reminds me much of the case of Sylvia Likens. Terrible fate of the daughters who were innocent children with no one to defend and no one to save them. My heart is broken after hearing this story.
I believe that they are similar because the motive of the perpetrators is likely the same. Those poor girls were killed out of spite because their caregivers were full of envy.
These cases never fail to baffle me. I cannot wrap my head around someone being so disgusting and evil.
Jealousy. Someone losing their youth, and it's all they ever had. Monster.
@@rebeccabejenaru I agree
Agree re: jealousy, but this is just beyond twisted and brutal. Rot in hell, Theresa.
generational trauma
I grew up in an abusive household (&my entire family tree & history...) it's one of those things that if you know you know...
I'm safe now and I'm grateful my story wasn't like this
rampant alcoholism & domestic violence (societally accepted in the 20th century etc). no excuses but an explanation.
Personality Disorders make Monsters like these🤢
Those poor children, I can't believe they returned Susan even after she begged cps to make her a ward of the state, I watched a true crime show on this and it left my heart heavy, I feel unbelievably sad for those children. If only the court locked her up when she shot and killed her husband.
I blame the state
A little girl runs away, covered in bruises, says her mom is beating her, begs the cops to please just put her in foster care. Then the mom shows up and says "nah, my daughter's crazy." Cops are like "good enough for me, here you go." A few weeks of torture later, the girl is shot to death. 👏Fantastic system.
Of course they did. All girls and women are "slts" "liars" "dramatic" need to "stop complaining." That's the attitude that leads to these behaviours such as not taking victims seriously
I've never heard of this case before. This is absolutely horrific. For a mother to behave like this, ihave nothing to add. Omg, Theresa is truly a monster of the highest order.
Yeah this is equally horrible as the Gertrude Baniszewski case on this channe.l I barely made it to the end of that one. it really affected the rest of my day to the point I couldn't watch anymore videos from this channel for a bit. You should check out that episode as well.😢 This case and that one I can't ever. Forget
This happened in my county, and all those places are recognizable. It's horrifying, and somehow this is the first I'm hearing of it???
Can we talk about what a hero Terri is? She never gave up on getting justice for her sisters. I'm sorry it took so long for someone to really listen. She must have felt like she was losing her mind having to tell that story over and over again.. just for someone to not take her seriously.
I have been waiting for a Theresa Knorr cover on this channel for a while now. This woman is the blueprint of what it means to be a monster.
Also the mother of Sylvia Lykens...and Rose West 😢
@@gordonaliasme1104 Gertrude Baniszewski wasn't Sylvia's mother. She was someone who her parents paid to look after her and her sister while they were on the road.
@@gordonaliasme1104 The sylvia case is one of the worst, along with this one, and both really get to me.
Your theme music is just a simple sequence of three notes repeated. Literally one of the simplest things to compose, and yet it's always such an eerie thing to hear at the beginning of your videos and has a much stronger impact than three notes should. I think it deserves some recognition.
Are you a musician? I’m a drummer so I notice things like that too 😅. Some of the most iconic horror tunes are just a few notes repeated like the theme from Halloween. If you’ve ever heard of Candyman, producer Timberland sampled that horror theme for a remix of Nelly Furtado’s Maneater ft. Lil Wayne.
I still get chills when I hear the theme song to Unsolved Mysteries 😅
Even if it is basically the same cadence as 'Carol of the Bells'.
I was thinking just the same thing the other day lol
Definitely. Its my favorite intro on RUclips. Debunk Files intro is simple too and it's legit asf
Just horrible. Those poor kids. Especially those poor girls. Teresa really was a monster.
In 2009, my youngest daughter and I were playing around/fighting over the last M&Ms. Her waist length hair got caught on my hands during horseplay and I accidentally pulled her hair. I still feel guilty over that and it was an accident. How tf can you possibly intentionally harm anyone let alone your own children and live with yourself; is beyond my comprehension. The only violence I will commit concerning my children is to protect them by any and all means from someone else.
I hear that. I have an incredibly acute startle reflex from PTSD, and my son jumped on me when I was dead asleep one morning. I ended up throwing him off of me, and while he landed on a pile of blankets and was completely uninjured, that morning still haunts me. Just the "what if" of it all. I have 3 sons, and they are my world, the very best part of my life. Parenting is hard and full of frustration and challenges, but it's also amazing. I can't imagine wanting to intentionally inflict harm on them, much less do anything the so called "mother" in this video did. She really is a monster, through and through.
Those boys were just as bad
@G Loyd yes. They're little psycho carbon copies of their momster. But my point is that she was the grown adult in the situation and the reason any of it happened and continued to happen.
@@Neauxluh no, they're not. They're kids, also, I don't get why you're' focusing only on the boys when every single one of them partecipated in the abuse.
Are you trying to imply that boys are smarter than girls and should have known better?
A lot of monsters have been covered on this channel, but something about a mother monster really hits you in the gut.
This story was sick beyond human comprehension
Thank you for covering this case. Theresa Knorr is truly a monster
Anyone else notice that child protective services are always completely useless in these stories despite the situation?
CPS is always useless. Even when they help they usually just hand the kid off to some foster family who's probably a pedophile.
Yeah, in Germany too. Why don't they do their f***ing job? Instead of looking the other way? 😢 😡
@@simonetta-tacarbon reduction you just haven't realized what the carbon is
@@simonetta-ta
Maybe because the job is extremely difficult.
Kinda like how you’re completely useless in general, and your comments.
This episode reminds me of stories that my mom would tell me about when she was a child. Her mother and father were extremely abusive. In my mom’s case, no one died. But it was the fear. The intense fear that was put on her and her siblings through violent behavior. Both of her parents are dead now. But to this day, she can tell me some twisted tale that sounds straight out of the movie Psycho. This kind of stuff becomes reality if you know someone who has gone through similar circumstances or you have gone through it yourself. I thank God that my parents were strong enough to break the abuse cycle and my brothers and I didn’t have to endure the hell that my mom did. Great video “This is Monsters!” You are exposing truth!
Your Mom is an absolute star not to pass on the abuses she went through. The majority of survivors don't go on to abuse but they may find it impossible to maintain relationships, trust, show affection, etc - that doesn't mean they're "bad", just that their abuse affected them in that way. Abuse also physically changes a child's brain. And, yes, the FEAR is terrible.
I hope your mom's stories didn't give you any nightmares. I hope she received therapy.
@@Neku628 I’m okay. I never asked if my mom received therapy. I do know that she became an individual of faith and that has helped her tremendously with the depression and anxiety that she experienced.
@@docgalt2801 That's good that she found some positive outlet.
You conclude by saying, “you are exposing truth.” More definitively, he is exposing evil.
What a horrible sadist! How awful for those poor kids. 😢
CPS is such a joke..
The system repeatedly failed these poor children. This is a horrific story.
You’ve repeatedly got gotten orders wrong at McDonald’s. How hard is it to make a plain cheeseburger?
This case has always been so fascinating to me and despite me being staunchly anti-capital punishment every time I do a deep dive into the case beyond Wikipedia summaries I wish that after she was sentenced someone would have just taken her out back, doled out every single punishment she did to her children and then stomped her out with steel toed boots.
She’s somehow still alive at 77 and I hope she rests in piss.
Only the good die young. My evil grandmother is still alive and she has a long history of child/spousal abuse, including beatings and denial of child sexual abuse by her brother towards not only HIS children, but her children and even grandchildren….
@@chickenlittle5095omg chickie 😮 hope you're okay ❤
Well fuqing said, mate.
This evil bitch from hell should be cellmates with the freezer mom, Mitchelle Blair. I bet they would have a lot in common and could swap murder and abuse stories.
Good one!!!
This case reminded me of a book I read in elementary school called “A child named it” parents like this don’t deserve the privilege
I can't believe this case doesn't get more coverage. It's probably the darkest one I can think of. I watched a TV show about it when I was very young (I think we all saw the same one!) and it's haunted me ever since.
It's had loads of coverage...some of the worst events don't go to the news especially if it won't be a risk for others. There is no reason for a public announcement except for the failures of a system. So that would be dependent on the location and their values.
@@AHD2105
Excellent points, I hadn’t considered why some would not be covered as much.
Somethings are too horrendous for general audiences, there is enough pain & suffering it can already feel overwhelming.
@@deltalimabravo6727 I worked on the emergency line. Most extreme cases arnt public if it does not involve the public. But to me it should always be public. People like you and I didnt think like this so can't protect our loved ones.
Don’t you people work lol
@@oc5515 Troll
She's definitely in the running for most twisted, evilest monster
This is actually heartbreaking. The police failed this family.
Get back inside and make more fries girl.
Adult victims of domestic abuse sometimes stay put, out of fear, despite having opportunities to leave. Imagine the horror Susan felt as the only people capable of saving her forcefully returned her to her murderer. She was so strong.
What choice did she have?
I experienced DA both as a child and an a adult
I thought my mom was bad, smh. Something truly evil exists in a woman's heart when she willfully abuses her children, girls or boys. Life in prison is a joke, I lived through an abusive mother, she even beat my Dad. Death penalty is the answer. Stop having sympathy/empathy for people that hate you. My mother hated all 6 six of her children, 1st family 1 boy 2 girls, she deserted them in California. She moved to Kansas had 3 more girls, I'm the middle one. Thankfully she's gone now. Straight hateful. May God bless, I have no patience.
I hope you find peace. It wasn’t your fault
@@ContrabandTube, I'm good. Thank you for your kind words. I hope you're doing good to.
I understand, my so-called monster, abused, all of us, I used to tell my dad, she’s going to poison you, I was 11, by 13. I literally walked out the back door and never looked back, found my dad a few years later, he had finally divorced her&married a beautiful woman, and I have 4 more siblings, don’t know where she is now don’t care, got the evil out of my life, and broke that chain of crazy,with ease👍🏻👍🏻✌🏻💕🙏🏻
You can never get that poison out of you 😢 to be treated so cruelly by your mother would have ever lasting psychological damage 😢 it's something no child should ever have to live with 💔
@Jan Basterfield Yes you can. I removed mine from my life and fought hard to be everything she was not. Their poison is just that, theirs. Therapy does work. We have to stop believing that sins of our parents are our own and that we are permanently damaged, we are NOT.
Thank you to show so much respect for the victims in every cases you share with us
I had no idea Susan had survived the first time... or about 60% of the other information. Including the religious overtones.
Thanks so much!
@@thisisMONSTERS I'm just amazed. I'm 46 years old....and I knew 5% of this case..I'm in awe of your research on this. I usually get up and do housework. This had me glued to my seat.....poor Terry. She really tried in life.. she overcame so much she strived to do better..
Some people truly do die from a broken heart. 💔 I believe that.
Bless you for toiling through the details to let us know the truth. 💜
@@rebeccabejenaru evil is among us , just can’t imagine what they’ve been through :(
I saw this story somewhere else years ago. Why she hated her daughters is hard to understand. I wish the older brother would have gone to the authorities and done more to save his siblings.
I watched this case in documentary before, with children,now adults telling their story, and was absolutely shocked to the horror these children went through.
Which one? Evil lives here ?
@@jennaagee7992 Yes Evil lives here
Cold case files 1st aired...I think you can find it on line
@@jennaagee7992 I watched evil lives here, u have it here on yt
This is the most traumatizing story I've ever listened to... Theresa Knor truly is a MONSTER
Yeah this is equally horrible as the Gertrude Baniszewski case on this channe.l I barely made it to the end of that one. it really affected the rest of my day to the point I couldn't watch anymore videos from this channel for a bit. You should check out that episode as well.😢 This case and that one I can't ever. Forget
@@rashawnjohnson6851 thanks, will check it out
I think it's very creepy that she apparently had the capability to stop (or pause) being a monster at will. So she very deliberately chose to do what she did to her children. Most monsters just aren't able to stop themselves even if they want to or need to in order to avoid capture.
It seems to be related only to her children, particularly her daughters.
I wonder if she had had more children, whether she would have started again.
So bizarre that she would do that to her own flesh and blood, when most mothers would do the opposite, but maybe in her case her brain worked in the opposite way?
This case is forever ingrained in my head. I was still in Elementary when we got cable and I was glued to the TV watching Detective shows. Forensic Files and Cold Case Files were shows I watched everyday.
This case made me sob because I never thought a mother could be so evil like the devil incarnate. I still remember the crime scene photos and the 1st dead sister's jewelry and the popcorn box the 2nd one was dumped on. I applaud Terry for seeking justice for her sisters even though it took years to achieve.
Stop thinking females cannot do as men can when it comes to abuse and murder. Historically they have always done these things but people always try to make as though it is rare and not normal for these things. Lol! You should look up the historical cases of female serial killers.
And as per normal people will find excuses for their bad behaviour.
I too was/am a true murder junkie. I cannot remember who the book was about but somehow I got ahold of a book about a serial killer. I think I was 8 or 9 and I was hooked then came The Godfather of true crime shows “Forensic Files”. I don’t think I’ve missed a single episode. They have a FF-2 out, but since Peter Thomas I’m hoping that’s his last name. It’s hard to remember, but since his passing I find it hard to watch the newer ones. His voice so so appropriate for narration, and honestly he’s ingrained in all our minds. Still can sit through the reruns of them. This narrator of Monsters has a great voice for it. Love this Chanel
my grandmother was in to those shows, and luckily, I got to watch with her, we had great discussions about what we had just seen, especially forensics, and that was in its infancy, I don’t remember this one, as evil as it is, I would’ve😞,,,,,✌🏻💕
I read the book Whatever Mother Says years ago. This was truly a horrifying case, and you covered it quite nicely.
This woman reminds me a lot of my mother. Some people shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near children..
This lady got off on shooting her husband and she walked out of the courthouse and demanded her gun back!
I know insane! I’m rewinding the video trying to find out why she was found not guilty 😳
PLEASE do NOT call her Lady😵😒
This is by far the most disturbing case of abuse I’ve heard! I’m halfway through and am taking a break 😢
I think he has one about a woman named Gertrude it's pretty bad too
@@meganswindall7839 Yes, I've seen that one too, but for some reason this one really gets me - oof :(
@@lindseyroberts7427 I'm 2:30 in...
I feel the same. It disgusted me and I feel sick
I don't have a relationship with my mother. It took a few tries, but I finally cut ties with her about 2 years ago because she was controlling and manipulating. I never looked back. There were times when I thought she would kill me as a teen. All it took was her acting that way towards my own daughter, that I stopped giving af. I can't imagine what these poor girls went through. Mothers, please be gentle with your daughters and live the example you want to teach them. Violence and emotional manipulation doesn't make it better.
Same, and she's enabled by my father and my sister was tje same as my mother though she was not as bad as this except the verbal abuse. Violence between mothers and daughters are normalised that's why the social services didn't do anything.. meanwhile the sons are idolised
I had a 'wicked' stepmother, not to this extent, but enough to f^ck me up for the rest of my life. I left as soon as I could. I deal with mental illness every day. FFS, if you don't want them don't have them!
🧢
"my mother was a very very sick woman" ~ Terry
yup i agree
This is probably the worst case I've ever heard of a parent's treatment of their children.
Yeah this is equally horrible as the Gertrude Baniszewski case on this channe.l I barely made it to the end of that one. it really affected the rest of my day to the point I couldn't watch anymore videos from this channel for a bit. You should check out that episode as well.😢 This case and that one I can't ever. Forget
Just as bad as the Wests
I HATE this woman! Killing two of her daughters with her sons... it's sickening to know that she lived longer than Suesan and Sheila... 😡 I have to praise Terry for trying to get justice for her sisters when her brothers have not done the same.
Not only was their Mother a demon, but the children’s Father (that was alive) failed them. They clearly did not give a damn.
I simply cannot believe the jury found her not guilty in the first murder. Everyone who voted for a not guilty veredict should've been charged for negligence or something like it.
All those opportunities to save those poor children that were missed...heartbreaking 😢
Ikr... its the same story so many times 😪 so damn sad and unfortunate the " authorities " seem to so often ignore multiple attempts to bring out the truth
I am not surprised that only the boys became accomplices. They could've saved their sisters, but instead, they joined in. Sick little monsters.
I don't feel the chances were missed, so much as ignored 😢
It had been a while since the last shock from a true-crime story, but this one just reset the counter. Those poor kids only knew darkness.
The detail of each of your episodes is nothing short of exceptional and inspirational. And, whilst I am subscribed to several other true crime channels, yours stand head & shoulders above your competitors, at least in content and delivery. I am also pleased to have cut my teeth on true crime when your channel was still in its infancy, so you have been the standard by which all others are judged.
Thank you for your service in all things "crime"
Puccini (UK) 😇
Thanks so much. It means a lot.
This story is truly insane. I’m so glad terri was able to make it out but she really didn’t stand a chance. May she rest in peace 😢
It's scary to think there are people like her out in society. Evil does exist.
How she ever found a way to not do drugs for even a day speaks volumes about how much courage she has. I hope Terry found a life worth happiness. I have no words RIP Terry how did the only good in that family end up dead long before they ever had a chance to live????????
Now, this may not be true, but I read a comment under another video of this where the person had some extra knowledge of this case, saying that she was not as noble as many seem to believe. Apparently there was info given by both the brothers and Terry throwing each other under the bus. Terry saying the brothers went along out of being manipulated and being afraid of getting into trouble for the sexual assault. One or both of the brothers said that Terry was not the object of mothers violence due to her not being quite as thin and pretty as her sisters. Which she herself joined in, on the abuse out of her own jealousy at the time. Apparently she only decided to come clean to get herself out of the trouble she was getting into. Which is why it supposedly took so long to get people to believe her story. It was so absurd to think of someone waiting so long before saying anything at all. Oh, and apparently it wasn't just the mother that persuaded the social workers. It was Terry and the boys who lied for their mother. Terry used drugs to get high and to stop thinking of the role she played. Not out of remorse, but out of worry of the karma her actions and lack of action brought her. She was living the karma and eventually succumbed to it. Again, Idk how tru this info is. I have left out a ton of details as it was a while ago that I read it. But I am hoping to come across the comment again, which us actually why I'm here in the first place.lol tbh, what I read, seemed a lot more plausible than the story given by Terry herself. The mother obsessive jealousy and envy of her two pretty daughters is what drove the her to the evils. The same jealousy peaking thru led to Terry's role played in her sisters torture and demise. I mean, they all became old enough to know better, and know their sisters were not possessed, and went along for their own selfish reasons. Weird how Terry kept mentioning how she was the one to plead with her mother to seek medical care for the sisters. Idk. I am utterly haunted by this case. I hope this different bit of information is untrue. It would be nice to think there was at least one person who had a heart. Sadly, with Terry's pattern of abuse she inflicted on her loved one is quite telling. And the brothers new conviction says a lot as well.
This monster was my “mother.” No one saved us. We saved ourselves. When you encounter parents who whine about their adult offspring severing their relationships with them you can be certain mommy dearest was abusive as hell.
I hope you healed as best as you can. I can't imagine the level of ptsd.
I hope you know how unique, valuable, strong and precious you are.
You may not want to hear this, but Allah is on the side of the oppressed and downtrodden.
Whether in this life or the next, justice will be served.
Please know that I pray Allah gives you healing, guidance and continuous strength.
As a mother myself and a daughter, I couldn't imagine being treated in such a way or so much as even thinking about treating my children in such a way. It hurts my heart
I’m so sorry for your trauma! You did not deserve it and it was not your fault. Please seek help and try to live in peace.
I hope you found peace. You are loved and you are worthy of it. 🖤
This story is so horrifying I could barely wrap mind around it. I'm so sorry you went through being abused. But it is reckless to assume and proclaim that the parent of an estranged adult child must have been abusive. It's rarely true.
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That’s no mother that’s a cowardly monster
There are no words…when you think you’ve heard everything, here comes an even more horrible monster. It is so sad how those kids lived with her for so long. They were so manipulated they didn’t even think to run away and/or contact the authorities. How do monsters like this become monsters. I will never understand.
I read a true crime book about Theresa Knorr years ago and it was brutal omfg the atrocities committed by this so called “mother” have haunted me ever since
What's the name of the book?
I know this one, it was truly awful, I will skip it but I'm sure this channel did a great job covering it. What those kids went through I can't listen to it again.
2:29 that "dropped out of high school graphic" is GREAT 🤣🤣🤣
So sad that so many people in power ignored the statements of the children.
They're "just girls" apparently asking for it.
I've never once had to pause one of your videos for being "to much to handle while listening" but when you talked about how she removed the bullet. I had to take a few moments to process that much torture she went through😢
What a vile wicked excuse of a human being! May the flame's of hell burn her for eternity! This one was extremely hard to listen to. RIP Susan and Sheila....🕊️
usually completely numb to all the morons and monsters, but this story gets me fired up.. It really pulls at my heart what this poor little girl endured
I heard about this case a couple of years ago and actually cried. How can you live with yourself? So incredibly sad 😢
it's 2 am by me..perfect time for a new episode of Monsters. thanks.
This case is one of the most sickening I've ever heard of.😢 The amount of torment not only those girls went through before succombing to the abuse and the torment they all went through. I'll never be able to fathom how a human can be so cruel especially to her own flesh and blood. Some people don't deserve kids.😡💯
Yeah this is equally horrible as the Gertrude Baniszewski case on this channe.l I barely made it to the end of that one. it really affected the rest of my day to the point I couldn't watch anymore videos from this channel for a bit. You should check out that episode as well.😢 This case and that one I can't ever. Forget
@@rashawnjohnson6851 that case was horrific too. That poor poor girl suffered through so much torment as well
I will never understand what makes a parent hurt their children😢
Thank you for taking the time to correctly type in the captions from your script. I'm not deaf yet, lol, but I know the folks who can't hear or have hearing issues appreciate it immensely. I know that it is a lot of extra work and takes a lot of your time, so thank you.
I am a huge fan and love all your content, you tell the stories in such a captivating way to me, thank you for being awesome. This is such a sad case but I always wondered if you would cover this story! my uncle was one of the men who was briefly married to Theresa, they divorced because she would go out all night partying/drinking leaving him with the kids sometimes for days. He suspected she was also having affairs while she was gone. It was not a marriage but more of a convenience at the time for her having someone to watch the children so she could go out. I wasn’t there but that’s what I have been told about the short marriage. I grew up hearing about her but not until I became older and did my own research did I discover how much of a monster she is. She’s evil.
This is the most chilling case yet. And I watch these things all the time. Unreal.
Yeah this is equally horrible as the Gertrude Baniszewski case on this channe.l I barely made it to the end of that one. it really affected the rest of my day to the point I couldn't watch anymore videos from this channel for a bit. You should check out that episode as well.😢 This case and that one I can't ever. Forget
This whole story is just absolute nightmare fuel, total chaos. I can’t imagine the pain and trauma that all of the kids went through, especially the two sisters. That old wench is the truest definition of a monster.
She is the reason Bob Barker always said have your pets spayed or neutered. She should’ve never had kids.
Has anyone ever had a more torturous life than poor Susan? 😢 so sad
Not guilty? She shot him through the heart. I heard how she got out of it but i still cannot comprehend it. How? Terri never stood a chance. Such a shame.
Her sons are despicable too. They all are CRAZY
It’s quite mind blowing. These cases keep happening and yet officials still seem to fail to act because it’s all so unbelievable.
I hope that cycle gets broken.
I remember seeing this case when I was like 14 or 15 and it really affected me I like true crime for a while at that point this is one of those cases it's just stuck with you and then you realize this happens quite often and then it's really sad motivated me to do my best to be a good mother and not to do anything like this to my children like this lady is absolutely insane I'm glad they caught her and I'm glad her daughter turned her in
My aunt helped the prosecution and got the whole the paperwork together she is not in the court but it didn't affect her for the rest of her life it is horrible what this woman did makes my blood boil and I asked him this is monsters to do podcast on her I can't tell you how many times I'm just glad that he did cuz this case sticks with you I knew it sticks with me because I lived in the area that this happened I remember seeing the fire
Yeah this is equally horrible as the Gertrude Baniszewski case on this channe.l I barely made it to the end of that one. it really affected the rest of my day to the point I couldn't watch anymore videos from this channel for a bit. You should check out that episode as well.😢 This case and that one I can't ever. Forget
Damn 22mins late. Hey my dedicated Aussie Monsters Squad. I'll be watching this a little later as its only 5:24pm in Melbourne Australia. But don't forget to grab your blankies, and snuggle in. TIM, damn straight. Much hugs🙏🌏💙
This is probably one of the most awful cases I've ever heard 😢
The amount of failures in this case that led Theresa to carry out her gruesome behavior for decades is absolutely baffling. There are so many instances where if someone actually paid attention, these poor girls may still be with us today. Her cruel behavior was obviously driven by jealousy. May Theresa burn in hell. Life in prison is too kind for this monster.
I listened to this a few days ago. I still think about the torture the little girls went through in vivid detail. This one troubled me.
The amount of mistakes made by the various investigators and people who'd been told the story and didn't report anything themselves is astounding.
Stories like this always shake me up for a while. If you think about it, at all times there is somebody somewhere being held against their will and tortured. Nobody knows except them and their captor. We drive to work, come home to our families, and smile. Meanwhile we may be driving by a house of terror everyday without knowing. It’s scary.
How in the world......? So many failures on this case it is just sickening.
The torture by mothers is extreme
Extremely sadistic
Just unbelievable. Those poor children 😢.
Re the sons: this case is a prime example of how sexual offenders/murderers are made. Each of the sons has done one of incest, molestation, murder, arson, and/or blaming prostitutes for their own deaths (serial killer much?). I hate to say this, but knowing their "mother" is Theresa Knorr, you almost can't blame them. Violence breeds violence. Hate breeds hate.
Gertrude Baniszewski: I'm the most evil mother there ever was.
Theresa Knorr: Hold my beer.
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I thought david goggins was a savage but susan is a next level warrior taking that bullet and surviving
Spectacular failures by all the institutions meant to uphold justice. Great job, America! 🇺🇲
I’ve read this book in high school!! It brought me into true crime and me having a passion for it to try to help . But this one has always stuck with me almost 20 years later
That’s sad the brothers were implicated…. They were teens… and their mother was insane and evil!! All they knew were punishments…so yeah, they listened to her. She not only brainwashed her sons, they thought they could have been killed too!
There's a good book about this case. It's called Mother's Day.
Theresa reminds me a lot of Shelly Knotek.
Thank you for all of the information you shared at the end of the video. I bet watching this video triggered people who have been the victims of terrible abuse. The story you told was the most horrible case of abuse I have ever heard. It rains right up there with what the Nazi's did. Children are a joy to be treasured. It breaks my heart to know these children never knew unconditional love. Thank you for sharing this story. When children cannot speak for themselves it is all of our responsibility to speak for them.
Takoda collins. Worst child abuse ever, arguably
I’ve heard of this story several times when it was about the two unidentified bodies and it still never fails to shock me that someone could enjoy unendingly torturing their poor innocent children so much and it doesn’t bear thinking about imagining what horror those poor kids had to live (and die) through.
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My "mother" was a lot like this woman unfortunately. She never had the balls to murder us but she was (and still is) a very cruel and wicked person.
I've read so much about this case, and I can never truly comprehend how anyone can be as strong as Terri was. She really did make it her mission to tell anyone and everyone that she could until someone believed her.
Most days I can deal with these stories, but this one... I felt the girls' pain with every detail you unrolled in this horrendous nightmare. What a terrible, terrible place to be for children. My love goes out to those who made it out, and those who didn't. Also, Thank you Jiles for the information to seek help if your viewers need it at the end of every one of your videos. I have no doubt, you have saved many people already, more than you know. ❤
Yeah this is equally horrible as the Gertrude Baniszewski case on this channe.l I barely made it to the end of that one. it really affected the rest of my day to the point I couldn't watch anymore videos from this channel for a bit. You should check out that episode as well.😢
@rashawnjohnson6851 I read about what she did on Wikipedia, and it scarred me so badly that I skip any true crime episode that covers Silvia Likens
“Saved lives” 😅😅😅 WtF are you even talking about?
I’ve listened to a lot of these types of abuse stories but I couldn’t get through this one because of the rage bubbling up inside me
"she stopped brushing her hair like she used to" the bar used to be pretty low huh?
I did in-home care for years and worked for NY State in a group home. I can safely say so many horrible people hide in the healthcare industry.