1 Theresa Knorr
Despite that, she was reportedly close to her mother and was thus heartbroken when she died of heart failure in early 1961. Therefore, even though she was just 16, when Theresa found a partner, she got married and left home in 1962. After a brief pause, Theresa ordered the other children to carry their injured sister to the bathroom and place her in the tub. Theresa did not want the police involved, so an ambulance was out of the question. The bullet had not passed through Suesan's body, but it was too deep to remove from the open wound.
Charlie’s depressive actions indicated that the event in which he was molested by his aunt show that child abuse has such a negative affect on the child that will last a lifetime. In this quote, Rose is trying to convince Ginny that they cannot show mercy to their father because of the way he treated them when they were teenagers. Rose reminded Ginny of how Larry took advantage of them sexually and the other wrong doings. Additionally, what Rose also mentions is that the sexual acts were a direct effect of the fact that the mother died.
Police Chief Walter Froehlich described the crime scene and events leading up to Theresa's arrest. Rapping up the prosecution's side, Dorfman questioned several of Sanders' relatives in an effort to show the victim was not a violent or abusive person. "I grabbed a gun to make him keep from hitting me and it went off," Theresa said. Clifford's body was lying facedown in the doorway of the kitchen and on the opposite end of the room Froehlich found the rifle leaning against a wall. Froehlich arrested Theresa and transported her to the Sacramento County Jail.
By 1991, all the children, save Robert, had moved away and eventually, mother and son also moved to Las Vegas. In 1982, in a fit of rage, Theresa shot Suesan with a .22-caliber pistol. Not wanting police involvement, Suesan was bandaged with the bullet still in the body and looked after by her sisters, Sheila and Terry, till she recovered. Theresa constantly accused Robert Knorr of having affairs and despite being pregnant obtained a divorce on June 3, 1970. Another daughter, her sixth and last offspring, Theresa Marie Knorr was born just two months later.
Sheila was beaten badly, tied up, and shut in an airless and hot closet without any food or water. Theresa quit junior high school and the newly-wedded couple moved into a one-bedroom apartment in California’s North Highlands district. With the insecure Theresa keeping Clifford on a very short leash, the marriage became strained very soon. Theresa Jimmie Francine Knorr (née Cross) was born on March 12, 1946, in Sacramento to James ‘Jim’ Cross and Swannie Gay. She was the couple’s second child; her sister, Rosemary, was a couple of years older to her. Theresa also had two step-siblings, William and Clara, both out of Swannie's first marriage.
Instead of providing Suesan with medical treatment, Theresa rather left her manacled under their kitchen table without food and water. As Suesan’s condition continued to seekers crime deteriorate, Theresa decided to get rid of her. She then carried Suesan tied up and lip-sealed to a lone place around Squaw Valley where she set her ablaze alongside her belongings. Theresa Knorr’s childhood was not a very pleasant one and may have contributed to the kind of personality she grew up to become. She was born as Theresa Jimmie Francine Cross on March 14, 1946.
Apparently, she had tried to climb up some small shelves in the closet, but they would not hold her weight and she came crashing down. During another of her binges, she grabbed Terry by the arm and held a .22-caliber pistol to the girl's head. For months afterward her daughter suffered terrifying nightmares. Theresa didn't stay single for long and soon began dating a railway worker named Ronald Pulliam.
Ronald was convinced that she was seeing another man and filed for divorce. On September 27, 1972, with Judge Charles W. Johnson again presiding, the divorce was granted. Robert continued to serve in the military, but his diminished abilities left him few options and he was forced to work as a burial escort. The job wasn't without its perks, but it often required Robert to leave his family on a moment's notice and travel halfway around the country.