{"product_id":"9781466873469","title":"Whatever Mother Says...: A True Story of a Mother, Madness and Murder","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo neighbors, she was the brave single mother...\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaising her five kids alone in a rundown section of Sacramento, Theresa Cross Knorr seemed like the ultimate survivor. But her youngest daughter, 16-year-old Terry, told police another story: one almost too terrible to believe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBut accused of imprisoning her children in a house of horrors...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAccording to Terry, Theresa--no longer the petite brunette she once was--had turned insanely jealous of her pretty eldest daughters and enlisted the help of her two teenaged sons in a vicious campaign against their sisters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOf beating, torturing and killing her own flesh and blood...\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTerry's gruesome tale told how Theresa had drugged, handcuffed and shot 16-year-old Suesan, allowing her wounds to fester, until the day she ordered her sons to burn their sister alive. Next, Terry said Theresa severely beat 20-year-old Sheila and then locked her in a stifling broom closet, so that when the girl finally starved to death, her brothers dumped her body in the same desolate mountain range where they had cremated Suesan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShe could be one of the most evil murderesses of our time...\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt took Terry five agonizing years to convince authorities to investigate her grisly accounts of burning flesh, starvation and torture...of a mother from hell, so sadistic and so deranged, she had become her children's own executioner. Wensley Clarkson's \u003ci\u003eWhatever Mother Says ... \u003c\/i\u003eis the true story of a mother, madness and murder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129847857392,"sku":"9781466873469","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466873469_p0.jpg?v=1769891923","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466873469","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}