Today, we’re baking something rich and full of secrets — a carrot cake with an unexpected twist. As we prep, let’s dive into the chilling story of Michelle “Shelley” Knotek, a woman whose early life was a mix of both ordinary and disturbing elements, and whose path would eventually lead her to a dark and violent destiny.
From the outside, her early years seemed like they could be straight out of a Hallmark movie — a middle-class upbringing, seemingly full of promise. But what the world didn’t see was the shadow of dysfunction growing deep inside of her.
Little is known about Shelley Knotek’s first 6 years of life. Born April 15, 1954 to parents Sharon and Les Watson. She would have two brothers, Paul and Chuck, from her parents before they divorced. She and her siblings lived with her mother. Sharon was said to be an alcoholic and many family members also believed she was also a sex worker.
When Shelley was 6, Sharon phoned Les and his new wife, Lara Stalling, demanding that they come get the kids. Shelley and Chuck went to live with their father and stepmother. Paul, being only an infant at the time, would live with his mother until he was a bit older, but would eventually move in with them as well. They never heard from their mother again.
In the Spring of 1967, when Shelley was 13 years old, her mother was murdered. She was living with a boyfriend at the time. They were both homeless and addicted to drugs. When Shelley was told about her mother’s death, she didn’t react at all.
Growing up in her dad’s house Shelley was both manipulative and abusive. Her younger brother Chuck never really spoke. Shelley would speak for him, almost controlling him. She despised her stepmother. “She told me every single day that she hated me,” Lara recalled of that time. Lara described Shelley as perpetually unhappy. She was defiant and appeared jealous of anyone who received attention she was sure she deserved…her siblings most of all. She would constantly lie and blame her younger siblings for her missing homework or uncompleted chores. She even went as far as grinding up glass and putting it in the children’s shoes.
She would steal money out of Lara’s purse, refuse to go to school and throw fits whenever she didn’t get her way. Les would give in and give Shelley whatever she wanted just to keep the peace.
Shelley spent a lot of time in her childhood with her paternal grandmother, Anna Watson, while Lara and Les worked. Married to Les’ father, George Watson, Anna was described by most who knew her as “Iron Fisted” but the truth was, she could be a cruel and manipulative woman.
Together, Anna and her son, Les, owned two nursing homes. At one point, two women started working at the nursing home, and Anna took to treating them like her personal slaves. In addition to their work at the nursing homes, Anna would have them come to her own home to clean. At times she would have them stop their cleaning to rub her feet, or fix her hair. If they didn’t work fast enough, or do tasks up to her standards, Anna would punch or kick them, or pull their hair. During one visit to Anna’s home, Lara noticed one of the women was soaking wet and upset. They confided in Lara that when Anna was extra angry with them, she would hold their heads under water in the toilet and flush repeatedly.
It wasn’t just these women that Anna was cruel too. She would force her own husband to sleep outside in an 8 foot by 8 foot shed, stating he didn’t deserve to sleep inside the house. She would also constantly accuse Lara of starving Shelley or not bathing her properly. One day when Lara came to pick Shelley up from her grandmother, Anna had chopped all of Shelley’s beautiful red hair off, blaming Lara for not brushing her hair properly.
Even though, at times her cruelty appeared to be targeted at Shelley, the two were inseparable during Shelley’s early years. Shelley learned a lot during those times she spent with Grandma Anna.
In March of 1969, when Shelley was 15 years old, she didn’t come home after school one day. Worried, Lara called her school to find out where Shelley was. This is when Lara was informed that Shelley had been taken to the juvenile hall detention center. When they couldn’t get any information over the phone, Lara and Les rushed down to try to help Shelley. But as it would turn out, Shelley wasn’t in trouble, Les was.
Shelley had told staff at her school that Les had raped her. Appalled by the accusation, Les and Lara requested that a medical examination of Shelley be conducted immediately. While they waited for Shelley to be examined, Lara went home. Worried about Shelley and what was going on, Lara searched her room for clues. Between her mattress and boxspring, Lara found a magazine with the title “I was raped at 15 by my dad” displayed boldly on the cover. Magazine in hand she rushed back to the hospital to show Les. This is when the doctor reported that Shelley had not been raped. In fact it appeared as though she had never been touched at all.
She had made the entire thing up for attention. Multiple rounds of therapy did little to change Shelley. In fact, the only thing that it did was provide Lara and Les with the realization that you can’t help someone who doesn’t believe that there is anything wrong with them. It appeared Shelley believed “I’m not broke, I don’t need fixed”.
Her school did not want her to return after the false accusations and drama. Shelley spent the next several years bouncing from school to school. Each asking that she didn’t return the next semester because of her behavioral problems. Not wanting her at home to throw out more accusations and cause more drama, Les and Lara tried to find relatives or boarding schools that would take her. At one point, Lara’s parents let her stay with them for a semester. But that ended when Shelley tried to accuse Lara’s father of raping her as well.
Shelley’s final year of high school was spent in Pennsylvania where she lived with her Aunt Katy and Uncle Frank. She had convinced them to let her move there with them after lying to them about Lara, stating that she was abusive towards Shelley. The manipulation and lies continued there though, eventually creating so many problems that Katy and Frank divorced.
In the Summer of 1971, while attending high school in Pennsylvania, Shelley met and began dating a young man named Randy Rivardo. When she graduated high school in 1972, they broke up when Shelley returned home to Battle Ground, Washington to live with Lara and Les.
Soon she convinced Randy to move to Battle Ground with her and resume their relationship. Promising her father would give him a job as a maintenance worker at one of his nursing homes and free housing. Later Randy would say that Shelley’s parents were far too eager to marry her off to Randy. He would soon find out why. They married in February of 1973.
Shelley was manipulative as ever. Lara and Les had a 40 foot trailer they owned that they allowed Randy and Shelley to live in for free while they saved up to start their lives together. Shelley hated the trailer and didn’t want to live in it. She wanted to move into a nice little house in town. When she couldn’t convince her dad and Randy to fork over the money to move, she resorted to lies and manipulation. Shelley claimed to be attacked and raped one day while Randy was at work. She went as far as beating herself up and hiding their shotgun they had in the house, claiming the attackers stole it. Even though they knew she was lying, she convinced Randy and her dad that they needed to move because she didn’t feel safe in the trailer.
Later, Shelley had her heart set on a brand new VW Bug. When her dad went to buy her a car, he instead came home with a pink Cadillac convertible, thinking it was more practical and Shelley would love it. Shelley was PISSED. That night she collapsed and was rushed to the hospital. Her family was terrified she had overdosed on sleeping pills and alcohol. After the doctors pumped her stomach, her family was informed that the only thing she had in her stomach was a few aspirin.
Shelley got pregnant and had her first daughter, Nikki, in February of 1975. Everyone hoped that becoming a mother would calm Shelley down a bit. But instead, her and Randy’s marriage soon fell apart.
Shelley would constantly kick Randy out of the house in a fit of rage, forcing him to sleep in his car. She would take his paychecks as soon as he received them and spend them without any regards to her family’s needs. Randy confessed to Lara at one point, “Shelley is only nice to me when other people are around.” Randy soon left Shelley and later divorced her.
After their divorce, Shelley just disappeared, leaving Nikki with a family member. That family member, not knowing where Shelley went or when she would return, called Lara and gave her the child. Shelley would stay gone for an entire year before suddenly showing up to collect Nikki with no explanation where she had been.
Shelley married Danny Long on June 2, 1978 and had her second daughter, Samantha, in August of 1978. This marriage would last a short 5 years, all of which were riddled with lies, manipulation and constant fighting which often turned physical. They divorced in 1983.
She soon set her eyes on a new man, David Knotek. Insisting to her two young daughters that he was their “new dad”. The family soon packed up their lives and moved to Raymond, WA to live with David.
Shelley and David married on December 28, 1987. Not long before they were married Shelley told David and the girls that she had cancer and probably didn’t have long to live. David would later say he didn’t marry Shelley because of the cancer, but the children having no one if Shelley died was one driving force for him. One of their witnesses was a woman named Kathy Loreno. Kathy was Shelley’s hairdresser and best friend. No one at the wedding could have imagined the horrors that would ensue in the years to come.
Shelley was just as abusive and manipulative to David as she was to her first two husbands. She would scream at, berate and even shove and hit David whenever he did something that she didn’t like. She would
accuse him of not loving her and her children simply because he didn’t make “enough” money by her standards. Even though, at this point, David was the sole provide for their family. Her oldest daughter, Nikki, remembers it being so bad she could recall a time she saw David knelt on the front porch with a shotgun in what she called a “suicide position” as her mother continued to berate him.
When they moved into the Lauderback House in Old Willapa, WA…things only went from bad to worse. She started beating her girls with anything close by: a spatula, a fishing pole, an electrical cord. These attacks mostly came at night, when she would wake the girls up and drag them out of bed. Most of the time the girls didn’t even know what they had done to be punished; she would beat them for any perceived wrongdoing, and the beatings seemed to excite her.
The psychological abuse seemed to bring even more joy to Shelley. It started out small; the girl’s homework would disappear, Shelley would wake them up in the middle of the night to find some item of clothing or a hair brush that had gone missing. But as time went on, the psychological torture got worse. Shelley would give the girls a wonderful Christmas, full of all the gifts the girls had been asking for and then almost immediately take them away. Telling them that they didn’t deserve them because they were selfish and ungrateful. She even went as far as lying and saying that the well on the property was running dry and restricted the girls’ showers and bathroom usage. Stating they could only use the bathroom with her permission.
Nikki seemed to be her favorite target. Wallowing became one of Shelley’s favorite punishments for Nikki, combining both physical and psychological abuse. She would force Nikki to get undressed and go outback. She would then direct David to spray her with water from the garden hose while forcing her to “wallow in the mud like the pig you are”. She would continue to berate her while forcing her to do this for several minutes up to several hours. And the time of year made no difference to Shelley, she would have Nikki out there wallowing in all months of the year, even in the freezing months of the winter. David would later say he only participated in these punishments because he was afraid of how far Shelley would take it if he left it just to her.
In the middle of 1988 Shelley’s nephew, Shane Watson, came to live with the family. Son to her brother Paul, Shane had been living on the streets of Tacoma with nowhere to go. His father was in prison and his mother was a drug addict, so Shane thought moving in with his aunt would provide him with the family and stable home life he longed for. What he didn’t realize was, he would never get out of Aunt Shelley’s house of horrors alive.
At first Shelley showered Shane with love and attention. He got his own room in the basement, a bed, and new clothing. But it wasn’t long before Shelley put him to work with a mile long list of chores that was ever growing. When Shane didn’t do chores to Shelley’s impossible standards, she started taking away his belongings. He quickly had no bed, pillow or blanket and was forced to sleep on the hard concrete floor of the basement. When he first started living there he would complain, but he quickly learned that complaining only made the punishments worse. Shane was just as scared of Shelley as her own girls were; he would do anything not to make her mad. Soon he wasn’t allowed to take showers, and he was only allowed one pair of clothes to wear. After that it wasn’t long before Shane also had to wallow in the backyard alongside Nikki for punishments. And even weirder, Shelley would eventually force Nikki and Shane to strip down naked and slow dance together in front of the family. Because of their shared abuse, Shane and Nikki became inseparable, each other’s confidants.
On Christmas of 1988, Shelley was pregnant with her third child. This is when Shelley announced to the family that her friend Kathy Loreno was moving in with them. Kathy was Shelley’s best friend, hairdresser and a witness at Dave and Shelley’s wedding. Kathy, who had a rough life, was estranged from her family. She had lost her job recently as a hairdresser and had lost her housing soon after. Shelley convinced her to move in with them, stating that she could help with the kids and Shelley’s doctors appointments for both the baby and the cancer, and then help with the new baby when she gave birth. Kathy worshiped Shelley.
When Tori was born in June of 1989, it only took a few weeks for Shelley to return to her normal routine of staying up all night and watching TV constantly. Kathy was there to take care of everything. It was slow at first, but Shelley’s demands and manipulative ways soon started to eat away at Kathy’s personality. She went from a vibrant, fun, outgoing woman to a shadow of her former self. Whenever Kathy’s work didn’t meet Shelley’s satisfaction, she would hit her with whatever was close by. Shelley always told Kathy it was her fault, “You made me do that. I need to be able to count on you.” And then Shelley would give her a hug and a handful of pills. Kathy did whatever Shelley asked without question, even taking these unknown pills.
Slowly Shelley started to take away Kathy’s privileges and personal belongings, just as she had done to Shane after he moved in. Soon Kathy had no clothing at
all and had to do household chores in the nude. She would lock her in the closet as a punishment. As the abuse towards Kathy started to escalate, the abuse towards the children decreased. But that came at a heavy cost. She would soon recruit the kids to participate in some of the punishments for Kathy. None of them wanted to hurt Kathy, but they knew if they didn’t, they would face far worse abuse. Shane seemed to be the one who did most of Shelley’s biddings. She would tell him to kick or punch Kathy.
Over time, Kathy lost weight, her skin was always bruised and scratched and even her dental work began to fail. Shelley restricted everything. Kathy couldn’t eat, shower or even use the bathroom without Shelley’s permission. Soon, Kathy wasn’t allowed to shower in the house at all. Shelley would force her to shower outside, pouring bleach directly on her rather than allowing her to use soap. David was working a lot away from home, but would return on the weekends. He would always do Shelley’s bidding in “punishing” Kathy and the children; always believing Shelley about whatever transgressions they had made. He never questioned Shelley or said no to participating in the abuse. Although he would later say he didn’t think they abused any of the kids. They were just “bad kids” that needed extra structure.
Kathy and Shane both attempted to run away on numerous occasions. Shelley would pack up the girls in the car and drive around looking for them, sometimes for days. She would eventually find them. With nowhere to go and no family to help them, they always returned with Shelley.
In the Summer of 1992, the family, including Shane and Kathy, moved to a house on Monohon Landing in Raymond, WA. It was a small farm-style house with multiple out buildings including a chicken coop, a tool shed, a barn, a well house and a pump house. The house itself was much smaller than the Lauderback house with a master bedroom, two tiny bedrooms upstairs with a “computer room” separating them and only one bathroom. The bathroom was right next to the master bathroom, which made it much easier for Shelley to monitor everyone’s bathroom usage. Since there wasn’t much room, Shane was forced to sleep in Nikki’s closet, and Kathy was made to sleep on the living room floor.
As Kathy started to deteriorate from the lack of hygiene, food and the constant abuse, David saw less and less of Kathy on his weekends home. The girls told their dad that Shelley kept Kathy in the pump house. When he asked Shelley about why she was in the pump house,
she claimed that Kathy needed protecting from the kids. David would later recount, “One time when I cam home, Shane was dragging Kathy around the yard by her feet.” That cemented his trust in Shelley’s word that she kept Kathy in the pump house for her own protection. Kathy would be locked in the pump house for days, sometimes even weeks at a time.
When Kathy wasn’t locked in the pump house, Shane or Nikki would be. The abuse on the children didn’t stop with Kathy there, it was merely not as intense. Her constant degrading of her husband also didn’t stop. She was always telling David what a lousy husband he was, how she should have never married him. To Shelley, David was a paycheck and nothing more.
Kathy’s physical decline started to escalate so rapidly it was alarming; it was obvious to David and the kids that if Kathy didn’t get medical help soon she would die. David wanted to take her to Oregon and drop her off. Just be rid of the problem. Shelley claimed that she was, in fact, not getting worse, but getting better. Even though they could see the truth, no one dared argue with Shelley. The truth is, Kathy was getting worse by the minute. She had lost so much weight, her skin hung off of her, she was covered in cuts, scrapes and bruises, she had lost all but one tooth and her hair was falling out. She couldn’t even walk without assistance any more.
Shelley had brought Kathy in on a rare occasion to take a shower inside, but being too weak to stand, Kathy slipped trying to get into the bath knocking the glass shower door down. The glass lacerated her abdomen and legs. It was so bad that Shelley decided to bring Kathy inside and let her start sleeping in the laundry room. At this point, Kathy’s speech was so slurred no one could understand her.
In July of 1994, not long after the bathroom accident, David came home on one of his weekends off work. When he walked into the home he could hear a gurgling sound coming from the laundry room where Kathy slept. When David went in to check on her, Kathy wasn’t breathing. She had vomited and had choked on it, that was the sound he had heard. David and Shane tried to revive her but it was too late. David and Shane spent the weekend building a makeshift crematorium in the back yard with a metal sheeting covering a fire pit. They laid Kathy’s body on the fire and added more wood on top of her. They stoked the fire all night and most of the next day. When Kathy was reduced to nothing but ashes, David took the ashes to the ocean nearby and scattered them.
Even though the kids knew what had happened, Shelley tried to convince them that Kathy had committed suicide but if anyone found out they would ALL be placed in jail. With no body to produce for the suicide angle, Kathy’s disappearance needed a cover story. Shelley made up a story that Kathy had run away with a new boyfriend named Rocky. This is the story they would tell anyone who asked for years to come.
Almost as soon as Kathy had died, Shelley was sure that Shane would be their undoing. Constantly telling David that Shane had to go because he would tell someone what happened to Kathy. But to David, Shane was like a son and he tried to defend him every chance he could. Shelley went as far as fabricating a story that Shane was sexually abusing Tori, the youngest of the Knotek girls, to try to get David to jump into action. David didn’t believe any of it, but did beat Shane for Shelley’s abuse accusation. Shane knew he only had two options, run away or tell someone what happened.
In February of 1995, Shane was suddenly gone. Shelley and David told the girls that Shane had run away again. Shelley even said that he had left her a note saying “I love you mom” along with a birdhouse that he had made at school. The girls didn’t believe that he would have left that for Shelley or the note, he hated Shelley. Later Shelley made up a story saying that Shane had called and said that he was fishing in Alaska and was doing well.
The abuse of the children ramped back up with Shane and Kathy both gone. It would continue this way until first Nikki and then a few years later Sami moved out. David worked all the time and rarely even came home on the weekends at that point. It was just Tori and Shelley at home then. With the other sisters gone, Shelley turned her attention to Tori;
who up until this point, hadn’t experienced any of the abuse the other girls had. But with no one else to abuse, Shelley turned her whole focus on Tori.
Over the years of knowing Ron, Shelley and Tori had become close to him. Tori even started referring to him as “Uncle Ron”, so she was more than excited when Ron came to live with them. Having been a toddler when Kathy lived with them, Tori had no memory of the abuse she endured, so she had no way of knowing what would come next. Sami and Nikki, though, were very concerned about this new person moving in with their mom. David was also extremely concerned; but didn’t have any fight left in him. He later admitted, “I was waiting for Tori to grow up, so I could leave.”
As she had with both Kathy and Shane, Shelley welcomed Ron in with a loving embrace. Setting him up with this own room with a bed and dresser, decorated with some of the items that he brought with him from his old home. Ron changed seemingly over night once Shelley started abusing and drugging him. Tori recalled “Ron was one of the smartest people I knew, but after he lived here, he didn’t know anything. He just wasn’t himself anymore.” Ron was given a laundry list of chores to do outdoors and his room was soon taken from him, as well as most of his possessions. He was forced to sleep on the floor in the computer room. Ron didn’t resist anything Shelley told him. His response to all of her demands, threats and abuse was always “Yes, Shelley dear.” or “I’m sorry Shelley dear”.
Shelley wasn’t able to keep her job at Olympic Area Agency on Aging for long. And after she was fired for poor performance and harassment of a coworker, the abuse on Ron amped up. It was like with nothing to distract her, she could spend all of her time thinking of new ways to abuse her friend. She did everything in her power to alienate Ron from his family. She would call his brother and make up stories about him neglecting his mother or even abusing her. She forced him to write letters to his mother disowning her and telling her she was nothing to him. Soon Ron had no one checking in on him or even caring about him.
All the while she was abusing Ron, Shelley continued to focus her rage at her youngest daughter as well. Her older sister’s were concerned for both her and Ron, but every time she was asked, she would report that everything was fine. She was worried that they wouldn’t believe her, not knowing they had suffered the same abuse as children.
Ron’s decline was so severe that Shelley even relented on her berating him and the abuse. In the Summer of 2003 she called David worried. She had tried to make arrangements to drop him off at a homeless shelter in Aberdeen but Ron refused. She told David that Ron had attempted to commit suicide by jumping off a tree in their yard. After that Ron was so sick and weak he had been lying on a bench on the back porch where Shelley fed him a constant supply of whiskey and medication. Soon she stated he was going to live at a friend’s house so he could “get better”. Tori never saw Ron again. Shelley had wrapped Ron in sleeping bags and had hidden his body in a deep freezer in the pole barn. David came home and buried Ron’s body in the yard.
Days later Shelley told her that she couldn’t tell anyone about Ron and if the cops came looking for him, she was to tell them that Ron left and was living in Tacoma. With Ron gone, Tori was made to do all the chores he had done while living with them. The abuse also ramped up again.
Not long after Ron’s departure from the home, Shelley let Tori go spend the weekend with Sami for the first time. The two girls went to see Nikki; this was the first time Tori had seen or spoken to Nikki since she moved out all those years before. Tori broke down and told the girls about the abuse she had been suffering at the hands of her mother and about her concerns for Ron. The girls told Tori they, too, had suffered the same abuse, and then told her about Kathy’s murder. Together the girls decided that something needed to be done to stop Shelley.
Nikki tried to report what Shelley and David had done to Kathy in July of 2001, but nothing was ever done with the report she filed with the Pacific County sheriff’s office. This time, Sami and Nikki went together to report everything they knew. The police response was different this time. They went the next morning and removed Tori from the home. Tori corroborated that stories that Sami and Nikki had told the police.
David was the next to be interviewed. It wasn’t long before he cracked. Between his partial admissions to Kathy and Ron’s deaths, they had enough to arrest Shelley. David never did admit to any abuse to the children though. He did admit that Shane, too, was dead. He had shot Shane at the insistence of Shelley that he would turn them in if they didn’t kill him. He was burned and his ashes were disposed of the same way that Kathy’s had been.
In February of 2004, David Knotek pleaded down his charges to second-degree murder for Shane’s death and unlawful disposal of human remains and rendering criminal assistance. For this he was sentenced to a little less than 15 years in prison. Shelley entered an Alford plea of guilty to all charges against her. This plea basically lets the defendant plead guilty because the evidence is too strong against them, while still asserting their innocence. Normally this plea is entered to allow for a lesser sentence. In the end Shelley was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison.
David was released from prison in 2016. Shelley was released from prison in 2022.
Brown Butter Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
12
servings30
minutes45
minutes672
kcalIngredients
- Carrot Cake
1/4 tsp salt
2 cups white sugar
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
1 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup browned butter, slightly cooled
3 cups grated carrots
4 large eggs
- Cream Cheese Frosting
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
8 oz cream cheese, room temperature
1 lb powdered sugar
2 tsp vanilla
Directions
- Carrot Cake
- Preheat oven to 350℉.
- In a large bowl, beat eggs into sugar, one at a time.
- Combine all dry in a separate bowl and whisk to combine.
- Add half of the dry mixture to eggs and sugar. Stir.
- Add oil to the batter. Stir.
- Add other half of dry mixture to the batter. Stir.
- Add brown butter to batter. Mix until just combined. Do no over mix the batter as this will lead to a dense cake.
- Fold in grated carrots until just combined.
- Add to a greased 9x13 cake pan or 2 - 9 inch cake pans.
- Bake at 350℉ for 45 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean. Let cake cool completely before adding frosting.
- Cream Cheese Frosting
- In a stand mixer (or large bowl with a hand mixer) cream together butter and cream cheese until fully combined.
- Add vanilla extract and half of the powdered sugar. Beat until combined.
- Add the remainder of the powdered sugar and continue beating. See note below about frosting.
- Frost cake and enjoy!
Notes
- Browned Butter: to make browned butter add 1/2 cup of unsalted butter to a pot and heat on medium-high heat until fully melted. Reduce heat to medium and continue cooking for roughly 5 minutes. You will know that the butter is done when the milk solids have separated and turned medium brown in color.
- This makes a thicker frosting. Do not add milk to thin out the frosting or it will not hold up well on the cake.
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- Ridley, J. (December 2019) Kids of murderer Michelle ‘Shelly’ Knotek warn their mom could kill again. https://nypost.com/2019/11/30/kids-of-murderer-michelle-shelly-knotek-warn-their-mom-could-kill-again/
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