Case 193: Suesan Knorr & Sheila Sanders
Added 2021-10-16 08:08:36 +0000 UTCMrs Cross walked up the driveway of the east Salt Lake City home and rang the doorbell. She was counting on this job interview to go well and had dressed to impress. Her clothes and makeup were immaculate, and her blonde wig was styled neatly. After a difficult life, this was her chance at a new beginning. She wasn’t about to blow it.
Team:
Anonymous Host - narration
Jessica Forsayeth - research, writing
Milly Raso - creative direction
Mike Migas - production, music
Andrew D.B. Joslyn - music
Comments
This is a horrible shocking case that has stuck with me since seeing it on Forensic Files years ago. So sad.
Beth Vandehey
2021-11-01 19:14:13 +0000 UTCThis 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?
Chantelle
2021-10-31 07:08:16 +0000 UTCShe was a monster. I feel for all her children
Louise Lee
2021-10-26 00:01:59 +0000 UTCNo 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.
HelpFind Ajax&Stamp
2021-10-23 00:23:36 +0000 UTCThis case reminded me of the Sylvia Likens case. Equally as horrible! Don't think Casefile have covered that one though.
Anna Pogudin
2021-10-22 00:42:29 +0000 UTCIt 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.
Toni hynes
2021-10-20 14:01:22 +0000 UTCI 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’
Goats and a sheep Family
2021-10-20 13:41:18 +0000 UTCI’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!
Trish
2021-10-20 13:22:34 +0000 UTCShe passed from a massive heart attack after struggling with cardiovascular disease. Really young, very sad. Doubtless the stress contributed.
Jane Richardson
2021-10-19 04:19:32 +0000 UTCThis was a hard one I'm normally ok but this one.......
Kev Keir
2021-10-18 22:03:07 +0000 UTCThanks, 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.
Demi
2021-10-18 15:52:22 +0000 UTCYou 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.
Hailey Mills
2021-10-18 12:10:03 +0000 UTCThis case is particularly awful, I couldn’t ever imagine having to endure what those poor children did
Lib
2021-10-18 12:05:49 +0000 UTCCases have been super depressing lately. I mean they’re always sad, but fricken hell.
John M
2021-10-18 05:39:54 +0000 UTCGertrude Baniszewski tendencies 🤞🏾Horrific, unconscionable. I don't know how people bear the unbearable but may there be peace in death.
Taryn-Lee Biggar
2021-10-17 07:48:24 +0000 UTCThis is one of those “I need to call my family and tell them I love them” cases.
Brenda Wells
2021-10-17 04:54:38 +0000 UTCHer youngest daughter "Terry" died 2011. I dont know from what.
Zana
2021-10-16 23:15:26 +0000 UTCthis 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.
AR
2021-10-16 23:12:49 +0000 UTCI can’t make it through this one. Holy shit so horrific. Rest In Peace angels
Jenna LD
2021-10-16 22:06:42 +0000 UTCThis case is horrific. Was really hard to listen to
Charlene Morgan
2021-10-16 21:47:44 +0000 UTCCase 20: Stoni Blair and Stephen Berry, similar case, absolutely devastating
Maia Murdoch
2021-10-16 18:44:41 +0000 UTCAlthough not clearly referenced in this podcast, Theresa Knorr took any and all steps necessary to condemn former lovers as child abusers in order to secure full custody with no visitation rights.. this was the price demanded of any man who contemplated leaving their perfect union
Daviid Gray
2021-10-16 18:25:05 +0000 UTCFound it! Hit Those Lights Podcast (also a YT channel) from two weeks ago called “REAL Life Stories that Will Scare You to Your Core.” It is the second to last or final section of the episode.
Crystal Heckman
2021-10-16 14:58:17 +0000 UTCAlso 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?
Alexi Ele
2021-10-16 14:41:01 +0000 UTCI 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.
Alexi Ele
2021-10-16 14:38:32 +0000 UTCI just listened about this case in a different podcast this week. Maybe you and I listened to that one? 🤷🏻♀️
Crystal Heckman
2021-10-16 14:38:05 +0000 UTCHaven’t you guys covered this case before? Or maybe it’s one similar
Hana Graham
2021-10-16 12:36:45 +0000 UTCWhat a case. One thing is for sure: it's never a mannequin ...
AK C
2021-10-16 10:45:34 +0000 UTCThis case is one I had never heard of before tonight. It is utterly devastating and horrifically unbelievable. Thank you for telling their story.
C.J.
2021-10-16 09:48:41 +0000 UTC
