Former television personality Angelynn “Angie” Mock built a career delivering the news, then suddenly became the subject of it after being charged with killing her mother. Now a judge has ruled that the former St. Louis anchor is mentally unfit to stand trial, putting the high-profile murder case on ice while doctors focus on her treatment instead of a jury. The ruling does not clear her of the accusation, but it does shift the story from a straight crime narrative into a complicated collision of mental illness, family tragedy, and the limits of the criminal courts.
Mock’s case has drawn attention not just because of her past on camera, but because of the disturbing details investigators describe and the serious psychiatric diagnosis that now shapes every legal decision around her. The ruling that she is incompetent to stand trial means the system has to hit pause, reassess her mental state, and decide whether she can ever be brought back into a courtroom to answer for what allegedly happened inside her mother’s home.
The former anchor and the family tragedy at the center
Before her name appeared in police reports, Angelynn Mock was better known to viewers as a polished presence on local broadcasts, a familiar face in the St. Louis market who went by Angie on air. That public image shattered when she was arrested in Sedgwick County, Kansas, accused of killing her elderly mother, Anita Avers, inside the home they shared. The woman who once calmly read crime scripts into a camera suddenly found herself described in charging documents, with prosecutors filing a count of first degree murder tied to Avers’ violent death.
Investigators say the scene they walked into was brutal, with Avers suffering multiple stab wounds and officers recovering a bloody knife and a cheese grater they believe were used in the attack. Court records describe Mock as the only other person in the home, and the case quickly moved from a shocking arrest to a detailed account of what police say unfolded in the hours before Avers died. Those allegations, including the specific reference to stab wounds and the household items seized, set the stage for a case that looked, at first, like a straightforward homicide prosecution.
Inside the night of the killing and the first red flags
As police pieced together what happened to Anita Avers, they also started documenting behavior from Mock that did not fit the usual pattern of a domestic murder suspect. Witness accounts and investigative summaries describe her as disorganized and paranoid, with officers noting that she seemed to be in the grip of a serious mental health crisis when they arrived. In the days that followed, Mock’s interactions with jail staff and early court appearances reportedly raised more questions about whether she understood what was going on around her…