Whatever Mother Says... A True Story of a Mother, Madness & Murder by Wensley Clarkson [FIRST EDITION / 1995]

Whatever Mother Says... A True Story of a Mother, Madness & Murder by Wensley Clarkson

FIRST EDITION [1995] ST. MARTINS PRESS

3rd printing.  Mass market paperback in very good condition.  Cover looks great.  Book has some read wear to spine.    Awesome reading copy. 

Raising her five kids alone in a rundown section of Sacramento, Theresa Cross Knorr seemed like the ultimate survivor. But her youngest daughter, 16-year-old Terry, told police another story: one almost too terrible to believe.

But accused of imprisoning her children in a house of horrors...

According to Terry, Theresa - no longer the petite brunette she once was - had turned insanely jealous of her pretty eldest daughters and enlisted the help of her two teenaged sons in a vicious campaign against their sisters.  Of beating, torturing and killing her own flesh and blood...

Terry's gruesome tale told how Theresa had drugged, handcuffed and shot 16-year-old Susan, allowing her wounds to fester, until the day she ordered her sons to burn their sister alive. Next, Terry said Theresa severely beat 20-year-old Sheila and then locked her in a stifling broom closet, so that when the girl finally starved to death, her brothers dumped her body in the same desolate mountain range where they had cremated Suesan.