Shocking Twist in ‘Bloody’ News Anchor’s Murder Case

Angeline Mock, known as Angie Mock, had a successful decade-long career in local news, culminating as a morning anchor in St. Louis until 2015. Her public persona was cheerful and positive. This starkly contrasts with her current situation, accused of murder and diagnosed with a severe mental illness, highlighting a dramatic and tragic shift in her life.

Angie Mock was known as Angie Mock to the many people who tuned in to morning news in cities like St. Louis more than a decade ago. This is per Fox 2 in St. Louis. This is a video that is on their public YouTube page that they posted in 2011 welcoming Angie Mach as the newest anchor who was part of their news team. Now, she is in the custody of the state of Kansas.

On Halloween, Mock was found covered in blood and asked a neighbor to call 911. Police found her mother, Anita Avers, stabbed multiple times in her bed, with kitchen knives and a cheese grater nearby. Mock provided two differing accounts to police: one where her mother attacked her with a knife, forcing Mock to stab her in self-defense, and another where her mother was sharpening knives, jealous of Mock's job interview, and chased her, leading Mock to kill her because she 'wasn't going to stop.'

A neighbor told Kak TV that Mach ran up to her and her boyfriend after the alleged murder, saying, quote, 'There was a woman who approached our vehicle like with blood, like her hands were filled, her body was filled with blood, asking to call 911.'... The affidavit states that when police arrived, they quote located a white female standing outside bleeding, holding a towel. When police went inside, they found Anita Avers, quote, lying on the bed with multiple stab wounds to her face and torso. Police say next to Anita, on the bed, the officer located multiple kitchen style knives and a cheese grater laid out on a pillow. When police asked Mach what happened and whether her mom was hurt, Mock allegedly said, quote, 'Her face, eyes, and gestured to her torso area.' An officer asked what happened, and Angeline said that she went to her mother's room to talk and saw her sharpening knives. Her mother came after her with a knife and fought her. Angeline was stronger, so she pushed her back. Her mother then said, quote, 'I know you're bleeping, Jesus Christ.' So, she backed away. Her mother followed her, so she went around her, grabbed a knife, and got on top of her. Angeline said that her mother started quote spewing venom at me out of her bleeping mouth and quote, 'So she had to stab her to save herself.'... Angeline then said she went to the bedroom to talk to her mom because she had an upcoming job interview at a local TV station in Witchah and she's a news anchor. She then said that her mom was sharpening knives and was jealous of her and didn't want her to get the job. She then said her mom chased her around the house and Angie needed to kill her mom because she wasn't going to stop.

Angeline Mock was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, which combines psychotic symptoms like hallucinations and delusions (schizo) with mood components such as depression (affective). A judge subsequently ruled her incompetent to stand trial, meaning she is not mentally well enough to understand court proceedings or assist in her own defense. This ruling postpones her case indefinitely, requiring her to receive treatment in a mental health facility until she is stabilized and potentially found fit for trial.

Not only does Angie Mach reportedly have schizophrenia, a judge ruled that she is not fit to stand trial. Now, here the judge writes, 'Based on the doctor's report, the court finds Mach to be incompetent to stand trial. The court ordered Mach to then be taken to a mental health treatment facility and at this point, her case is postponed indefinitely. But it doesn't mean it's over because after treatment, Mach could eventually be found fit to stand trial.'... It's a little bit different than schizophrenia. When you have schizopeffective disorder, there's a mood component. So, from what I'm reading, she's having in in combination with the hallucinations and delusions, she also has the depression. And so that's where the affective part comes in.

The expert clarifies that being 'unfit to stand trial' is distinct from pleading 'not guilty by reason of insanity.' Incompetence means the defendant cannot participate in their defense due to their current mental state. An insanity defense, however, argues that at the time of the crime, the defendant lacked the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong. Mock's current status addresses her present mental state for trial, not her mental state during the alleged murder.

So to be not guilty by reason of insanity, you have to be able to show that when the crime was committed that you didn't have the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong. That's not what's happening in this case. They're not saying that she should be found not guilty because she was insane. They're saying she can't go to trial right now because she is not in a state where she's going to be able to tolerate what goes on as you move through the legal system.