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Theresa Knorr Biography

Theresa Knorr is an American woman convicted of torturing and murdering two kids. She was born and brought up as Theresa Jimmie Francine Knorr in Sacramento, California, U.S. She was vindicated in killing her first husband.

10 Quick Facts About Theresa Knorr

1. Name: Theresa Jimmie Francine Knorr
2. Age: 76 years
3. Birthday: 14 March
4. Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius
5. Height: 5 feet 3 inches
6. Nationality: American
7. Occupation: Murder
8. Marital Status: Divorced
9. Salary: Under Review
10. Net worth: Under Review

Theresa Knorr Age

Theresa is 76 years old as of 2023, she was born on 14 March 1946, in Sacramento, California, U.S. She celebrates her birthday on 14 March every year and her birth sign is Sagittarius.

Theresa Knorr Height

Knorr stands at the height of 5 feet 3 inches. She appears to be quite tall in stature if her photos, relative to her surroundings, are anything to go by.

Theresa Knorr Weight

Theresa has a moderate weight.

Theresa Knorr Education

Unfortunately, details about where Knorr went to high school and college are not known to the public. This section will be updated as soon as the information is available.

Theresa Knorr Family

Theresa was born and raised by her parents James Cross her father and Swannie Gay her mother in Sacramento, California, U.S. She has three siblings namely; Rosemary Norris, William Hart Tapp and Clara Tapp.

Theresa Knorr Husband

Theresa was happily married to Clifford Clyde Sanders who was five decades her senior. The couple tied the knot On 29, September 1962 when she was sixteen. The pair was blessed with two kids namely; Howard Clyde Sanders and Sheila Gay Sanders. In the year 1964 Clifford died. She was married to Estell L. Thornsberry but their love did not rust for long after he noticed that she was having an affair with his friend.

On 9, July 1966, she was married to Robert Knorr, a United States Marine Corps private. The duo was blessed with four kids namely; Suesan Marline Knorr, William Robert Knorr, Robert Wallace Knorr, Jr and Theresa Terry Marie Knorr. In the year 1971, the couple separeted. Their relationship started to deteriorate after she start accusing her lover of having affairs. Both lovers were known to be volatile and would constantly beat each other and the children.

In 1971 was married to Ronald Pulliam. In 1972, he divorced her after he became convinced that she was having an affair. In August 1976 she was happily married to Chester “Chet” Harris. in November 1976 the couple separeted after she found out that her lover enjoyed taking consensual nude photographs of women.

Theresa Knorr’s Net Worth

Theresa’s net worth is publicly not available. Her primary source of income is her career. Through her various sources of income, we believe that Theresa has been able to accumulate a good net worth but prefers to keep it private. We will update this section once this information is available.

Theresa Knorr Measurements and Facts

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Theresa Knorr Wiki

• Full Names: Theresa Jimmie Francine Knorr
• Popular As: Theresa
• Gender: Female
• Occupation / Profession: Murder
• Nationality: American
• Race / Ethnicity: Not Available
• Religion: Not Available
• Sexual Orientation: Straight

Theresa Knorr Birthday

• Age / How Old?: 76 years
• Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius
• Date of Birth: 14 March 1946
• Place of Birth: Sacramento, California, U.S
• Birthday: 14 March

Theresa Knorr Family and Relationship

• Father (Dad): James Cross
• Mother: Swannie Gay
• Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): Three
• Marital Status: Married
• Dating / Boyfriend: Not Applicable
• Husband/Spouse: Married to Ronald Pulliam
• Children: Six

Theresa Knorr’s Net Worth and Salary

• Net Worth: Under Review
• Salary: Under Review
• Source of Income: Under Review

Child Abuse

Knorr was physically, verbally, and psychologically abusive toward her kids, a character which accelerate after her 4th breakup. She received a gigantic amount of weight and became reclusive disconnecting the home phone and refusing to allow the kids to have guests. According to neighbors, the Sacramento house was filthy and smelled of urine. Neighbors also noticed that the kids, whom she never let go outside, seemed fearful, nervous and high-strung.
For decades, she abused and tortured her kids in several ways, such as beating them, force-feeding them, burning them with cigarettes and throwing knives at them. She made her kids hold each other down while she assaulted them. She held a pistol to her youngest daughter Terry’s head and threatened to kill her. She primarily focused her anger and abuse on Terry’s older sisters, Suesan and Sheila. In an interview, Terry said her mother resented that Suesan and Sheila were maturing and blossoming into attractive young women while she faced the prospect of losing her looks as she aged.
She believed that her 4th lover who is Chet Harris, had turned Suesan into a witch, so Suesan gained the worst of Knorr’s abuse. After one severe beating, Suesan ran away from home. She was picked up by police and placed in a psychiatric hospital where she told staff that her mother abused her. She refused the abuse claims and told the hospital staff that Suesan had a mental illness. The officers did not research the matter further and released Suesan back into her mother’s custody.

She immediately punished Suesan by beating her while wearing a pair of leather gloves and forced Susesan’s siblings to take turns in the assault. She handcuffed Suesan to the kitchen table and ordered her other kid to stand watch over her in the subsequent weeks. She dined to let Suesan leave the house and forced her to drop out of school. She pulled her other kid out of school and most of them never advanced past the grade eighth.

Suesan’s Death

Knorr handcuffed Suesan under the dining room table making her suffer for two decades. She would hand-feed her from time to time, but she had to have a mouth gag on. Suesan could not take the torture anymore and begged her mom to let her go. The next morning, She went on a psychotic rampage and hit all her kids. She uncuffed Suesan for a second but handed her youngest kid Terry a gun to point at Suesan to ensure she did not go anywhere. While Knorr and the other kids were in the kitchen making oatmeal, one of her kids dropped the spoon and it spooked Terry, so the gun went off and hit Suesan. She immediately chained her back under the dining room table, apart from the fact she was bleeding out while also getting upset that there was blood on her carpet, while Suesan begged her mother to take her to the hospital. She decided to nurse her back to health and made the other children assist. Suesan survived the shooting but attempts by Robert, at Knorr’s request, to remove the bullet led to infection and sepsis.
Knorr packed all of Suesan’s belongings in trash bags and after binding her arms and legs and placing duct tape over her mouth, ordered her sons Robert and William to put Suesan in their car on 16, July 1984. They drove her to Squaw Valley, where Robert and William placed her on the side of the road on top of the bags containing her belongings. She then doused Suesan, who was still alive, and the bags in gasoline and lit them on fire. Suesan’s still smoldering body was found the following day. Due to the state of the remains, a positive identification was never made and Suesan was classified as a homicide case Jane Doe.

Sheila’s death

Following Suesan’s death, Knorr started directing most of her anger and abuse towards her girl Sheila, forcing the girl into prostitution to support the family. She did not work and gained unemployment profits from the state of California. She was initially pleased with this arrangement due to the huge amounts of money Sheila was receiving and allowed Sheila to leave the house whenever she pleased.
After some weeks, she became angry and accused Sheila of being pregnant and contracting a sexually transmitted disease, which she claimed she caught from Sheila via a toilet seat. When Sheila refused the accusations, Knorr beat her, hog-tied her and locked her in a hot closet with no ventilation. She forbade her other kids from giving Sheila food or water or opening the door to the closet. Terry disobeyed her mother and gave Sheila a beer. Terry later said Theresa wanted Sheila to confess. That was Mother’s way, beat them until they confess. To end the punishment, Sheila confessed to being pregnant and having an STD, but she claimed that she was lying and denied to let her out of the closet. Sheila died three days later, of dehydration and starvation on 21, June 1985.
Knorr left Sheila’s body in the closet for an additional three days before discovering that she was dead. Once again, she ordered her sons William and Robert to dispose of Sheila’s body, which had started to decompose and was causing an odorous smell that filled the home. The boys placed Sheila’s body in a cardboard box which they disposed of near Truckee Tahoe Airport. Sheila’s body was discovered a few hours after it had been disposed of but was never positively identified and was classified as Jane Doe #6607-85.
Even though Sheila’s body had been removed from the closet, the smell of decomposition still lingered in the home. He became concerned that the smell and physical evidence in the closet could implicate her in Sheila’s death. She moved the family’s belongings out of the home and ordered Terry to burn down the house in an effort to destroy any physical evidence. During the night, Terry dumped 3 containers of lighter fluid on the home floor and set it on fire. The fire did little damage as neighbors quickly reported the fire before it spread. The closet in which Sheila died was not damaged. After her arrest, researchers were able to remove the subfloor from the closet to test it for physical evidence.
After leaving the Sacramento apartment, she went into hiding. Her surviving kid, who was by then of legal age, severed their ties with their mother. Her youngest kid, sixteen-year-old Terry, also escaped her mom’s care and used Sheila’s identification card to pass herself off as a legal adult. The only kid to remain with him was Robert, Jr. who was then nineteen years old. Knorr and Robert, Jr. moved to Las Vegas, Nevada and attempted to keep a low profile. Robert Knorr, Jr. was arrested after he fatally shot a bartender in a Las Vegas bar during an attempted robbery in November 1991. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Shortly after Robert, Jr.’s arrest, Knorr left Las Vegas and relocated to Salt Lake City, Utah.

Arrests and convictions

Terry attempted to report her sisters’ murders to the Utah police; they lay aside her stories as fiction, as did a therapist she visited. After escaping from her mother. She phoned the hotline for the Fox television program America’s Most Wanted and was told to contact detectives in Placer County, California, where Suesan’s body had been found. Placer County detectives took her claims seriously and followed up with research, soon linking the 2 Jane Does found in the area to Terry’s detailed stories of her sisters’ deaths. on 4, November 1993, William Knorr was arrested in Woodland, California, where he had been living and working.
Robert Knorr, Jr. was charged with his sisters’ murders while he was serving his 16-year sentence in an Ely, Nevada, prison. Knorr herself was arrested at her home in Salt Lake City on 10, November 1993. At the time of her arrest, she was using her maiden title of Cross and was working as a caretaker for her landlord’s 86-year-old mother.
Theresa was charged with 2 counts of murder, 2 counts of conspiracy to commit murder, and 2 special circumstances charges; multiple murders and murder by torture. Knorr initially pleaded not guilty, but then made a deal with the prosecution after learning that her son Robert Jr. had agreed to testify against her in exchange for a reduced sentence. She pleaded guilty on the condition that she be spared the death penalty. Knorr was sentenced to 2 continuous life sentences On 17, October 1995. She is incarcerated at California Institution for Women in Chino, California. Knorr had a parole hearing but was refused release. Her next parole hearing will be in July 2024.
William Knorr was sentenced to probation and ordered to undergo therapy for participating in his sister Suesan’s murder. In exchange for his testimony, the prosecution dropped all charges against Robert Knorr, Jr. save for one count of being an accessory after the fact in relation to Sheila’s murder. Robert Jr. pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to 3 decades in prison, which was served concurrently with his 16-year sentence in Nevada.

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