Ex-TV anchor Angelynn Mock admits to stabbing own mom to death on Halloween after believing she was the devil

A former television news anchor has admitted to murdering her 80-year-old mother on Halloween last year at their Kansas home after believing she was possessed by the devil. Angelynn “Angie” Mock pleaded guilty on Friday to one count of first-degree murder for fatally stabbing her mother, Anita Avers, at their shared Wichita home on Oct. 31, 2025, the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office announced. Mock, 48, faces life in prison under the plea deal, with a chance at parole after 25 years, prosecutors said. Angelynn Mock, a former TV anchor, pleaded guilty to the murder of her mother on Friday. Fox 2 Mock previously worked as a morning news anchor at KTVI in St. Louis from 2011 to 2015 and later at KOKH in Oklahoma City, but was working in sales at a data management software company at