On this episode we discuss the inspiration behind the movie “The Afflicted." 

Theresa Knorr was a newly single mother of six children who began severely abusing the five children who still lived with her. She isolated her kids and refused to let them go to school, allowing her horrendous abuse to go unseen. She focused the majority of her rage on her two oldest daughters because she was jealous of them. Over a span of years Theresa murdered them both after subjecting them to long periods of extreme abuse, starvation, and torture. She made her other kids help her abuse their siblings by threatening to kill them if they didn’t. As the surviving siblings got older, one of them was on a quest for justice. They advocated for their murdered siblings for years before anyone in a position to help would actually listen. 

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Juan Ignacio Blanco. “Theresa Knorr | Murderpedia, the Encyclopedia of Murderers.” Murderpedia.org, 2010, murderpedia.org/female.K/k/knorr-theresa.htm.

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Neale, Eleanor. “The Most Evil Mother in America.” Www.youtube.com, www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSd-81xpmC8. Accessed 16 Sept. 2023.

Paddock, richard C. “The Berkshire Eagle 15 Nov 1993, Page 3.” Newspapers.com, 15 Nov. 1993, www.newspapers.com/image/534025897/?terms=Theresa%20knorr&match=1. Accessed 16 Sept. 2023.

“The Afflicted (Film).” Wikipedia, 26 Apr. 2023, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Afflicted_(film). Accessed 16 Sept. 2023.

“Theresa Knorr.” Wikipedia, 8 Sept. 2023, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_Knorr#Arrests. Accessed 16 Sept. 2023.

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