The once glamorous anchor of a local Fox news program was sentenced to life behind bars for the murder of her elderly mother.

Angelynn Mock, 48, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder for the Halloween night stabbing death of her 80-year-old mother, Anita Avers, in Wichita, Kansas, last year.

She appeared disheveled and sobbed as she was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years on Monday.

During victim impact statements, Avers’ stepdaughter, Sonja Kreutziger, described Mock as ‘demonic,’ KAKE reported.

‘The person I knew as gentle, kind Angie did not just murder her mom; she ambushed Anita while Anita was in bed asleep,’ she said.

‘This was so out of character for the Ange we thought we knew, so devastating, so calculated, so demonic.’

Avers was found unresponsive in her bed, wearing just underwear and a bra, on October 31, 2025, after suffering multiple stab wounds to her face and torso, according to an affidavit reviewed by the Daily Mail.

Several kitchen knives and a cheese grater were found ‘laid out on a pillow’ next to her elderly mother in bed, and ‘all the utensils had blood on them,’ court documents read.

Mock claimed mother ‘tried to kill her’

Mock, who anchored Missouri’s St Louis local station Fox 2 about a decade ago, called 911 herself, telling a dispatcher that ‘her mother tried to kill her, so she stabbed her in return,’ the affidavit stated.

When officers arrived at Avers’ home, they found her daughter outside holding a towel to her bloody hands, officers with the Wichita Police Department reported.

Avers was taken by ambulance to a local hospital, where she later died.

Meanwhile, Mock told police that before the stabbing, she entered her mother’s bedroom and found her ‘sharpening knives’ before Avers ‘came after her with a knife and fought her,’ per the affidavit.

Mock told officers she pushed her mother back as Avers told her: ‘I know you’re [expletive] Jesus Christ,’ police recorded.

The former anchor then told officers she backed off, but her mother continued to follow her, so she grabbed a knife ‘and got on top of her,’ the affidavit detailed.

At the time, Mock said she stabbed her mother because she ‘started spewing venom at me out of her [expletive] mouth,’ according to the documents.

Later on, she told police that she entered her mother’s bedroom that day to discuss an ‘upcoming job interview with KSN because she was a news anchor,’ police said.

Mock’s TV career detailed

KSN is an NBC television network affiliate. Mock previously worked for Fox 2 in St Louis from 2011 to 2015, and also held positions at KOKH Fox 25 in Oklahoma City.

She was employed as a sales employee at a data management software company at the time of her arrest, according to Newsweek, citing her now-deleted LinkedIn profile.

After telling her mother about the job prospect, Mock said Avers, who was ‘sharpening knives with bigger knives,’ said she was jealous and did not want her to get the job, the affidavit stated.

Officers also spoke with Barry Avers, Anita’s husband, who was at work at the time of her murder.

He told police that Mock was his stepdaughter, and that she previously worked for the St Louis station ‘before being laid off after an explosive situation involving alcohol,’ authorities said.

Before pleading guilty, Mock was ordered to undergo a competency evaluation to see if she was fit to stand trial. In July, a judge ruled she was competent to stand trial.

The only time she spoke during her sentencing hearing on Monday was to tell the judge she does not intend to file an appeal.