Overview
- Wichita officers responded around 7:52 a.m. on Oct. 31 to a home on East Crowley and found 80-year-old Anita Avers unresponsive in bed with multiple stab wounds; she was pronounced dead at a hospital shortly after.
- Angelynn “Angie” Mock, 47, was located outside with cuts on her hands, treated at a hospital, then booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on a first-degree murder charge with bond set at $1 million.
- Sedgwick County dispatch recordings reported by KAKE say a woman told 911 she had “stabbed her mother to save herself,” and authorities have not verified who made the call or any self-defense claim.
- Neighbor Alyssa Castro told KAKE a blood-covered woman asked to use a phone to call 911, took her boyfriend’s phone back into the house, and police later returned it.
- Officials say the investigation remains active with no motive released; Mock previously worked as a Fox 2 anchor in St. Louis, and Avers was a marriage and family therapist in Wichita.