Michelle Knotek systematically tortured & murdered two people who lived at her farmhouse in Raymond, Washington between 1994 & 2003.

She is also believed to have ordered the murder of her 17 year old nephew Shane who was killed by her husband David during that time.

But her shocking crimes don't end there as this evil matriarch known as 'Shelly' is also the suspect in at least one other death, bringing the total of lives lost at her hands to four.

From the outside, she looked like the very definition of kindness & compassion however in reality this was far from the case ....

Because behind the doors of their home a very different, far more deadly kind of reality existed. At the centre of it all was Shelly whose carefully crafted warm persona could vanish in an instant.

Thus revealing a woman who was manipulative, extremely sadistic & capable of extraordinary cruelty to all around her. The depths of depravity her torture methods went to go beyond even the scenes of a horror film .

The people she claimed to love would become trapped in her twisted web & before they had time to escape would be subjected to a nightmare of psychological & extreme physical abuse, systematic prolonged torture, & ultimately, murder......

Her sadistic crimes were only uncovered in 2003 thanks to her brave daughters finally breaking away from their evil mothers control & exposing the four deaths that she & David were responsible for to the world .......

This is episode 181: (2/2) A House of Horrors - The Wicked Crimes of Michelle Knotek Part 2

**Crime Talk Time Stamp: 8 mins 21 seconds

Sources: Book - If You Tell by Gregg Olsen / Wicked Attraction Season 3 ep2 / All that's interesting / Wikipedia / New York Post /

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