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Sabrina Zunich, The Girl Who Stabbed Her Foster Mother 178 Times

She later testified against the victim’s husband.

Emmalina Alessandrya
3 min readJan 17, 2021

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On November 16th, 2012, Megan was awoken by her mother’s screams. She found her foster sister, Sabrina Zunich, stabbing and slashing her mother, Lisa Knoefel. 13-year-old Megan was not able to stop her 19-year-old sister but she did dialed 911 where she frantically pleaded the operator to send help as she begged her sister to stop.

A picture of Sabrina Zunich
Sabrina Zunich by Mirror UK

When police dispatch arrived, he found Sabrina Zunich covered in blood with a 12-inch knife in her hand and Lisa Knoefel had passed away. He also found 3-year-old Hayley Knoefel, the biological daughter of Lisa Knoefel and Kevin Knoefel, hiding in the closet where her mother was brutally killed in the very same room.

Sabrina Zunich was abandoned by her biological parents, Mark Zunich and Susan Edwards, because the unmarried couple had troubles with the law that included grand theft and drug abuse. Sabrina was then taken under the wings of her grandmother but was sent away because she was unruly. Finally, she was adopted by Lisa Knoefel, a social worker who mainly…

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Emmalina Alessandrya
Emmalina Alessandrya

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