A former television anchor was charged with first-degree murder for allegedly stabbing her 80-year-old mother to death on Halloween “to save herself,” officials announced last week.

Angelynn Mock, a former news anchor for a local Fox affiliate station, is accused of repeatedly knifing her mother, Anita Avers, in their Kansas home early in the morning on Oct. 31.

The Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office announced that Mock, 47, was charged with first-degree murder, which could put her behind bars for the rest of her life.

Mock, who was an anchor with St. Louis’s KTVI Fox 2 in the early 2010s, was arrested at the home she shared with her mother in Wichita, Kansas around 7:50 a.m. after she called police on herself.

Her hands were littered with bloody cuts when officers found he

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