{"product_id":"whatever-mother-says-a-true-story-of-a-mother-madness-and-murder-9781250092861","title":"Whatever Mother Says...: A True Story of a Mother, Madness and Murder","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo neighbors, she was the brave single mother...\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaising her five kids alone in a rundown section of Sacramento, Theresa Cross Knorr seemed like the ultimate survivor. But her youngest daughter, 16-year-old Terry, told police another story: one almost too terrible to believe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBut accused of imprisoning her children in a house of horrors... \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAccording to Terry, Theresa--no longer the petite brunette she once was--had turned insanely jealous of her pretty eldest daughters and enlisted the help of her two teenaged sons in a vicious campaign against their sisters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOf beating, torturing and killing her own flesh and blood...\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTerry's gruesome tale told how Theresa had drugged, handcuffed and shot 16-year-old Suesan, allowing her wounds to fester, until the day she ordered her sons to burn their sister alive. Next, Terry said Theresa severely beat 20-year-old Sheila and then locked her in a stifling broom closet, so that when the girl finally starved to death, her brothers dumped her body in the same desolate mountain range where they had cremated Suesan. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eShe could be one of the most evil murderesses of our time...\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt took Terry five agonizing years to convince authorities to investigate her grisly accounts of burning flesh, starvation and torture...of a mother from hell, so sadistic and so deranged, she had become her children's own executioner. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWensley Clarkson \u003ci\u003eWhatever Mother Says ... \u003c\/i\u003eis the true story of a mother, madness and murder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWensley Clarkson \u003c\/b\u003ewas one of Britain's most successful young journalists before moving to Los Angeles with his wife and their four children in 1991-an experience that inspired his book, \u003ci\u003eA Year in La La Land. \u003c\/i\u003eHis other books-which have sold in more than a dozen countries-include the tabloid newspaper expose \u003ci\u003eDog Eat Dog, \u003c\/i\u003ea biography of the actor Mel Gibson, plus four best-selling true-crime books \u003ci\u003eHell Hath No Fury, Like A Woman Scorned, Love You to Death Darling, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDoctors of Death.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50662381060370,"sku":"9781250092861","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b9d7e58b-1576-45df-8ae9-528bdba1222e.jpg?v=1733521938","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/whatever-mother-says-a-true-story-of-a-mother-madness-and-murder-9781250092861","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}