Theresa Cross, from California, was just 16-years-old when she married Clifford Sanders. They had one baby. but their marriage was a turbulent one with Theresa being possessive and constantly accusing Clifford of infidelity. On 6 July, 1964, following an argument between the two, Clifford informed Theresa, who was pregnant with his second child, that he was leaving her and made his way to the front door. Theresa responded by shooting him dead with a rifle. She claimed she killed him in self-defence and was acquitted. She gave birth to a daughter, Sheila, and went on to marry a Vietnam veteran by the same of Robert Knorr and the couple went on to have four more children - Suesan, William, Robert, and Terry. Theresa Knorr was again, constantly accusing her husband of infidelity, which eventually led to their divorce. Theresa became an alcoholic and on top of this, she began to violently mistreat and abuse her children. She would slap them, beat them, lock them in closest, and force feed them. She unplugged the telephone and would not allow her children to have visitors or play outside. The abuse escalated, now with Theresa burning her children and throwing knives at them. On one occasion she held a pistol to her youngest daughter, Terry’s, head. She became resentful and jealous of her two eldest daughters, Suesan and Sheila, as they were blossoming into young attractive women. Suesan managed to escape the home after a severe beating, only to be placed in a psychiatric hospital and then back in her mother’s care, who as a result, beat Suesan horrendously and had the other children join in.
In 1982, Theresa became convinced that Suesan was a witch and was using witchcraft to make her gain weight. Theresa shot Suesan in the back and the bullet became lodged. Instead of calling for help, Theresa put Suesan in the bathtub. Miraculously she survived, only to be stabbed in the back two years later by Theresa. Again, she survived and this time she had had enough - she told Theresa she was leaving for Alaska. Theresa reluctantly agreed under the condition she allow her to remove the bullet still lodged in her back so it cannot be used as evidence against her. Theresa gave Suesan Mellaril capsules and liquor as an anaesthetic, which caused her to pass out. While unconscious, Theresa had her then 15-year-old son, Robert, remove the bullet with a knife. Suesan developed septicaemia and became delirious. On 16 July, 1984, Theresa tied Suesan up and drove her to Squaw Valley and set her on fire. Her autopsy showed that she was still alive when she was set on fire. Suesan was burned beyond recognition and as a result, her remains went unidentified. With Suesan out of the way, Theresa turned on Sheila. In May of 1985, Theresa forced Sheila into prostitution. She began to accuse Sheila of having a sexually transmitted disease, and claimed Theresa herself had caught it from the toilet seat in the home. As a result, she hog tied her and locked her in a hot closet with no food or water. Sheila died three days later from dehydration and starvation. Theresa didn’t notice Sheila had died until three days after her death when her body began to decompose. Theresa’s two sons, William and Robert, disposed of her body, and the same as her sister, her remains went unidentified.
After this murder, the family split up and went their own ways, and eventually, in 1993, Terry Knorr went to police to explain what she had experienced years before. Theresa Knorr was sentenced to two life sentences. William Knorr was sentenced to probation. Robert Knorr was already in prison for murder in Las Vegas but was charged with three extra years in exchange for his testimony.
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