Theresa Knorr - The Mother from Hell

Theresa Knorr, a mother of six, was very controlling and would hand out vicious beatings upon her children when drunk, escalating in severity as the years went on. The children were so afraid of their mother that when she started involving the siblings to help her beat one of them they simply had to obey. One child would be held down by the others while Theresa doled out her extreme punishments. The ‘chosen one’ would be left covered in bruises after these attacks.

Theresa was consumed with jealousy over her daughters’ teenage beauty and thin frames, so she started horrendous acts of breaking her daughters down. One of her daughters, Suesan, was force-fed boxes of macaroni & cheese mixed with lard, 4 boxes of the stuff at a time. If she vomited, she was forced to eat this too.

Susean started to be tied up during the nights so she couldn’t run away. The beatings continued and took a drastic turn one day in 1983.  Theresa had Suesan tied up and proceeded to punch her daughter in the stomach. Under their mother’s command, the rest of the siblings were made to participate in the brutal beating of their sister. As things escalated Knorr pulled a gun from the pocket of her dress and shot Suesan in the chest. No ambulance or doctors were called. Instead, Knorr fed her daughter huge ammounts of drugs to kill the pain and slowely ‘nursed’ her back to health. 

The shooting incident made Knorr even more fearful of her daughter and started restraining her with handcuffs and blindfolds for much of the day and night. She was made an outcast, unfit to join in at meal times and drugged to keep her sedated. Suesan’s health was deterioating as the beatings still continued.

The bullet remained lodged in Suesan’s back, and the following year Theresa decided it was time to remove the bullet herself. The DIY surgery left poor Suesan with jaundice and Theresa then got her sons to assist her in burning Suesan alive

Theresa then forced her other girl Sheila Knorr to become a prostitute. Subsequently, Knorr accused Sheila of transmitting an STD to her and trapped her inside a closet where she died of dehydration and starvation.

(Source: evilminds)