GLAM MORNING TV ANCHOR DEEMED "TOO INSANE" TO BE TRIED IN BRUTAL STABBING DEATH OF 81-YO MOM
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 1 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Angelynn "Angie" Mock, a former TV news anchor, has been ruled mentally unfit to stand trial for the murder of her 80-year-old mother.
Court records revealed that Mock suffers from schizophrenia. Mock has been ordered to a state psychiatric hospital for treatment.
Shortly after 7:40 a.m., Alyssa Castro and her boyfriend are in their car in their south Wichita neighborhood when a neighbor waves them down. As the woman approaches, they see what appears to be blood on the woman's hands. The woman asks to borrow a phone to call 911, then takes off with the phone back into a house.
A 911 dispatch reveals a possible stabbing and relays a message to first responders that a woman says that it happened in her home. Dispatch relays information that the person calling says the stabbing was in self-defense. She was trying to save herself from her mother.
Arriving at the home at 7:52 a.m., Wichita police find a woman outside the house with cuts on her hands and blood on her clothing. Inside the house, they find 81-year-old Anita Avers unresponsive in her bed with multiple stab wounds. Both women are taken to the hospital.
After Angelynn "Angie" Mock is arrested, her attorney requests a mental health evaluation. The case was taken off the docket while the evaluation is complete.
This process typically takes around 60 days. A new court date has not yet been scheduled.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Jim Elliott - Attorney with Butler Snow, Legal Counsel for Various Georgia Municipalities and Other Governmental Entities
- Caryn Stark - Forensic Psychologist, renowned TV and Radio Trauma Expert and Consultant; Instagram: carynpsych, FB: Caryn Stark Private Practice
- Dan Murphy - Former NYPD Detective-Sergeant, Joint Terrorism Task Force, Former Chief Security Officer, US Bancorp, Co-Host of "Gold Shields" Podcast, and Author: “Workplace Safety: Establishing an Effective Violence Prevention Program”
- Dr. Priya Banerjee - Board-certified Forensic Pathologist and Anatomic Pathologist, Anchor Forensic Pathology Consulting
- Melissa McCarty- Reporter & Host of the “Killer Genes” podcast, Author of “The Making of a Crime Reporter;" TikTok: McCarty143, Instagram: MelissaMcCarty1
- Dave Mack - Investigative Reporter, ‘Crime Stories’
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.7 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:11.0 | A glamorous TV anchor has just been determined to be, quote, too insane to be tried for the murder, |
| 0:19.9 | the stabbing death of her 81-year-old mom in bed. |
| 0:27.4 | What? |
| 0:28.9 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:33.7 | That's right. A glamorous former TV anchor accused of murdering her elderly mom too insane to be tried. |
| 0:42.3 | Angeline Mock, taken into custody in Wichita, Kansas for allegedly stabbing her mom Anita Avers dead. |
| 0:50.2 | The mom found in bed with multiple stab wounds. Okay. |
| 1:01.2 | Let's refresh our recollection as to what happened to the 81-year-old mom. |
| 1:08.5 | Angel and Mock, a familiar face in the Kansas City news scene gained popularity as the morning show anchor for Fox 2. |
| 1:12.3 | Her career was marked by her engaging presence and dedication to delivering the news, not knowing she would find herself back the limelight for all the wrong |
| 1:17.6 | reasons. That deadly, that fatal bloodbath in the home bedroom leaves her mother 80 years old, stabbed dead. What do we know? |
| 1:32.5 | There was a woman who came and approached our vehicle with blood. Like her hands were filled, |
| 1:39.1 | her body was filled with blood asking to call 911. 7.40 a.m. Alyssa Castro and her boyfriend are in their car in Wichita when a neighbor waves them down. As the woman approaches, they see what appears to be blood. A lot of blood on the woman's hands. The woman asked to borrow a phone to call 911, then takes off with the phone back into a house. Faster, if she was a K, and she was pretty shicking up, and she seemed scared, and she just ran off. |
| 2:02.5 | That from our friends at K-A-K-E, straight out to Melissa McCarty joining us, |
| 2:10.0 | investigative reporter, host of The Killer Jeans podcast, and author of a brand-need book, |
| 2:15.3 | The Making of a Crime Reporter. |
| 2:17.4 | Melissa, thank you for being with us. |
| 2:19.1 | Now, who is the woman sitting in a car that observes Angeline, the morning TV anchor, |
| 2:27.8 | running out of the home covered in blood? |
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