Case 193: Suesan Knorr & Sheila Sanders

I don't understand why these kids didn't gang up on Teresa. Sad, sad, case. I feel so bad for these kids.

This is a horrible shocking case that has stuck with me since seeing it on Forensic Files years ago. So sad.

This is one of the hardest cases I’ve ever listened to. It was horrific. Those poor children. Unthinkable that a mother can do that to her own babies. What makes a parent do this to their own children?

She was a monster. I feel for all her children

No one listened to any of the kids nor partners about the Theresa. To not believe the children was a travesty but normal for the times and even now.

It was a time were drug accessibility was so much easier then it is now and that monster wouldn't have given a toss about expiry dates. What a horrific monster. She was prue evil. Sad thing is her daughter Terri died in 2011. She should have had a long live so she could have some enjoyable times. I pity all the children. She raised seriously messed up kids. Hope they find peace.

I feel there may have been embellishments from time to time , hoarding drugs .. they have expiry dates , when did mother work, she had 6 children by the time she was 22, nurse aides don’t have access ad hoc to medications, I am not minimizing the suffering of her children .. I am just sayin’

I’ve listened to so many podcast, I thought it was a repeat 🙄 but having ‘casefile’ do it. Really brings it to another level! It took me a bit at the beginning because no one has done it like this. Bloody Theresa. What an absolute monster! That women had everyone fooled. So traumatising and shocking!

This was a hard one I'm normally ok but this one.......

Thanks, Casefile, for another great episode! As horrific as it was, and it was, it gave me hope. The fact that Terry kept pushing to get her sisters' justice despite nearly every attempt being brushed off and ignored or treated as delusional, she kept pushing until she was heard. Sergeant Fitzgerald was a rare gem to believe her and I started to tear up at work when I heard that someone finally believed her. It was clearly not an easy path for her. I have so many mixed emotions over the case as a whole but knowing Theresa Knorr was caught because Terry fought to be heard really left me feeling like the story had a happy ending.

You think after being interested in true crime for so long that nothing can shock you and then a case like this comes along. I appreciate not knowing all the gory details but I have so many questions now because of it. I can’t understand how she could still inflict so much fear on her adult children that they would return to dispose of their siblings bodies for her.

This case is particularly awful, I couldn’t ever imagine having to endure what those poor children did

Cases have been super depressing lately. I mean they’re always sad, but fricken hell.

Gertrude Baniszewski tendencies 🤞🏾Horrific, unconscionable. I don't know how people bear the unbearable but may there be peace in death.

This is one of those “I need to call my family and tell them I love them” cases.

Her youngest daughter "Terry" died 2011. I dont know from what.

this was a hard one to get through, but thank you for covering it. it's unbelievable such a tragic and monstrous case isn't more well known — but i think often the most horrific cases of child abuse don't become more widely known because they're just too dark and horrible to share.

I can’t make it through this one. Holy shit so horrific. Rest In Peace angels

This case is horrific. Was really hard to listen to

Also I'm kind of shocked at the father of the kids bellowing out in the court room that his ex wife should "fry", because I couldn't stop asking where in the world he was while all of this occurred? Did I miss something?

I normally have a pretty high tolerance for most of the subject matter in this podcast but this one left me feeling especially awful. Imagining growing up in that house and everything those kids, in particular the girls, went through just makes me shudder.

Haven’t you guys covered this case before? Or maybe it’s one similar

What a case. One thing is for sure: it's never a mannequin ...

This case is one I had never heard of before tonight. It is utterly devastating and horrifically unbelievable. Thank you for telling their story.