"Most Evil" Murderous Women Tv Episode
Despite that, she was reportedly close to her mother and was thus heartbroken when she died of heart failure in early 1961. Therefore, even though she was just 16, when Theresa found a partner, she got married and left home in 1962. After a brief pause, Theresa ordered the other children to carry their injured sister to the bathroom and place her in the tub. Theresa did not want the police involved, so an ambulance was out of the question. The bullet had not passed through Suesan's body, but it was too deep to remove from the open wound.
Rather than spend the day with her and the baby, Clifford went out drinking with his friends. Later that evening, he strolled in drunk and Theresa boiled over. She berated him for neglecting his family and wasting their much-needed money on booze.
In 1971 they married and shortly after purchased a house in east Sacramento. To outsiders they seemed like a perfect family, but before long history began to repeat itself and Theresa began treating Ronald as a possession rather than a partner. Just as she did with Estelle Thornsberry, Theresa began leaving her children at home with Ronald while she went out and partied.
By 1991, all the children, save Robert, had moved away and eventually, mother and son also moved to Las Vegas. In 1982, in a fit of rage, Theresa shot Suesan with a .22-caliber pistol. Not wanting police involvement, Suesan was bandaged with the bullet still in the body and looked after by her sisters, Sheila and Terry, till she recovered. Theresa constantly accused Robert Knorr of having affairs and despite being pregnant obtained a divorce on June 3, 1970. Another daughter, her sixth and last offspring, Theresa Marie Knorr was born just two months later.
Sheila was beaten badly, tied up, and shut in an airless and hot closet without any food or water. Theresa quit junior high school and the newly-wedded couple moved into a one-bedroom apartment in California’s North Highlands district. With the insecure Theresa keeping Clifford on a very short leash, the marriage became strained very soon. Theresa Jimmie Francine Knorr (née Cross) was born on March 12, 1946, in Sacramento to James ‘Jim’ Cross and Swannie Gay. She was the couple’s second child; her sister, Rosemary, was a couple of years older to her. Theresa also had two step-siblings, William and Clara, both out of Swannie's first marriage.
Instead of providing Suesan with medical treatment, Theresa rather left her manacled under their kitchen table without food and water. As Suesan’s condition continued to deteriorate, Theresa decided to get rid of her. She then carried Suesan tied up and lip-sealed to a lone place around Squaw Valley where she set her ablaze alongside her belongings. Theresa Knorr’s childhood was not a very pleasant one and may have contributed to the kind of personality she grew up to become. She was born as Theresa Jimmie Francine Cross on March 14, 1946.
Her marriage to Clifford may not have been happy, but at least it provided her with a sense of belonging. Now, at just 18, she was alone and again desperately seeking stability. To cope, Theresa turned to alcohol and began drowning her sorrows at a local American Legion Hall. It was there that she met Estelle Lee Thornsberry, an Army veteran who had suffered a debilitating blow two years earlier when a swimming accident left him a quadriplegic. Nonetheless, Thornsberry's disability didn't seem to bother Theresa and the two began dating.
She later refered to this injury as the source of her destructive future conduct. As Nannie and her three sisters hit their teenage years, their father disallowed his four daughters from wearing makeup or alluring seekers crime attire. This was with the goal that they were not depicted as promiscuous. Additionally, he stressed about them being molested by older men.