Affidavit outlines delusions before 80-year-old Wichita mother’s stabbing death
The Wichita woman accused of stabbing her 80-year-old mother to death in bed last month had been diagnosed with a serious mental illness, experienced “angry outbursts” and delusional states where she would claim she could “talk to God,” and called her mom “the devil” while she was “talking to herself” in a police interview room, according to a probable cause affidavit released Tuesday.
“I’d kill that (expletive) to have my mom back any day,” the affidavit says 47-year-old Angelynn E. Mock said to herself after she was taken into custody in the death of Anita L. Avers on Oct. 31.
“I don’t even know who she is anymore. I know, I believe she’s the devil,” Mock said.
The six-page affidavit gives a glimpse into Mock’s mental state and her relationship with her mother before Mock was killed at their home in the 1500 block of East Crowley on Halloween.
It also describes what Mock, who is charged with first-degree premeditated murder, claimed caused the attack before 8 a.m. that morning.
Avers’ husband told police that Mock — his stepdaughter — had a history of mental health issues, including a bipolar disorder diagnosis that “was later revised to be schizoaffective disorder,” the affidavit says. People who have schizoaffective disorder have symptoms of schizophrenia, such as hallucinations or delusions, combined with symptoms of a mood disorder.
He told police that Mock had been living with him and Avers for four or five years, after Mock moved to Wichita sometime after being laid off from a St. Louis, Missouri, news anchor job following “an explosive situation involving alcohol,” the affidavit says.
Avers, a mental health professional, “encouraged Angelynn to seek treatment with a psychologist or psychiatrist” at the time, the affidavit says the husband told police.
The husband also said that Mock was supposed to be taking medication to treat her conditions, which included “bouts of delusions mixed with periods of depression,” the affidavit says.
But he wasn’t sure what had been prescribed.
The husband told police that when Mock was in a delusional state, she would make deranged statements, including “They’re all robots” and “They’re not real people.” She would also “claim to be spiritual and talk to God” and make comments about “the Anti-Christ,” the affidavit says.
She also had a history of “angry outbursts” where she would say things like, “I could blow everyone up if I needed to,” according to the affidavit.
The husband said that several years ago Mock had “an explosive outburst where police were called” and she was “held at the hospital for psychiatric reasons for approximately two weeks,” according to the affidavit.
The last outburst he recalled happened during a family card game three or four weeks before the stabbing, where Mock yelled and “accused the family of hating her and she said she hated everyone.”
But, he told police, he “never felt she was violent or felt threatened.”
He described his wife’s relationship with Mock as “back-and-forth” like “most mothers and daughters,” according to the affidavit.
But they were close, he said.
Avers’ husband told police that everything seemed normal at home the night before the stabbing and when he got up for work on Halloween morning, according to the affidavit.
He told police Mock and Avers had “a normal, cordial conversation” before they went to bed around 11 p.m. on Oct. 30, and that he stayed in bed with Avers until around 6:40 a.m. the next morning.
He told police when he left the house for work around 7:10 a.m., Avers was still sleeping and Mock was awake in her bedroom “talking and laughing,” the affidavit says.
After he got to work and had visited with a client, officers notified him that there had been trouble at home.
When Wichita police showed up to the house after Mock called 911 from a neighbor’s phone, they found her standing outside covered in blood and holding a towel, the affidavit says.
She told police that her mother was inside injured from a stabbing and had wounds to her face, eyes and torso, according to the affidavit.
When an officer asked what happened, Mock claimed that she had gone to her mother’s room “to talk and saw her sharpening knives.”
She then told the officer that “her mother came after her with a knife and fought her,” so she “pushed her back,” the affidavit says.
She said she backed away after her mother said, “I know you’re (expletive) Jesus Christ.”
Mock told police that her mother started following her, “so she went around her, grabbed a knife, and got on top of her,” the affidavit says.
She told police her mother “‘started spewing venom at me out of her (expletive) mouth’ so she had to stab her to save herself,” the affidavit says.
Later, Mock told police that her mother had attacked her out of jealousy because she didn’t want Mock to get a job at a local TV station where she had an upcoming job interview.
She claimed her mother had chased her around the house and that she thought Avers was going to kill her, so she killed her first because “she wasn’t going to stop,” the affidavit says.
But when police went into the home, they found trails of blood droplets, a bloody butcher knife and Mock’s cellphone on the living room coffee table, and Avers’ blood-covered cellphone in the kitchen sink.
Avers was still lying in her bed under her blankets in a pool of blood, with four bloody kitchen knives and a bloody cheese grater “laid out” on a pillow next to her, according to the affidavit.
This story was originally published November 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM.
