Question: The Afflicted (also known as Another American Crime), is a 2011 horror film written and directed by Jason Stoddard, It is loosely based on the crimes of which female California killer, an American woman convicted of torturing and murdering two of her six children, while using the others to facilitate and cover up her crimes?

Context articles: Theresa Knorr
Randall Woodfield
Esther Reed
Zodiac Rapist
Diane Downs
Beverley Allitt
L'assassino è ancora tra noi
Madison County (film)
The Afflicted (film)
List of The Mentalist episodes

Theresa Jimmie Francine Knorr (née Cross; born March 14, 1946) is an American woman convicted of torturing and murdering two of her six children while using the others to facilitate and cover up her crimes.
 She is currently serving two consecutive life sentences at the California Institution for Women in Chino, California.
Randall Brent "Randy" Woodfield (born December 26, 1950) is an American serial killer who was dubbed The I-5 Killer or The I-5 Bandit by the media due to the crimes he committed along the Interstate 5 corridor running through Washington, Oregon, and California.
 Before his capture, the I-5 Killer was suspected of multiple sexual assaults and murders.
 A native of Oregon, Woodfield was convicted of three murders and is suspected of killing up to 44 people.
 He is currently incarcerated at the Oregon State Penitentiary.
 In 2011, Woodfield was the subject of a Lifetime television movie "Hunt for the I-5 Killer".
 The movie was based on the book "The I-5 Killer" by crime author Ann Rule.
Esther Elizabeth Reed (born March 8, 1978) is an American woman convicted of fraud and identity theft charges.
 She is best known for gaining entry to Harvard Extension School and Columbia University School of General Studies using stolen identities, including that of missing person Brooke Henson.
Zodiac Rapist (also known as Zodiac Killer) is a pornographic horror film released in 1971.
 The film is loosely based on the crimes of California serial killer the Zodiac.
Elizabeth Diane Frederickson Downs (born August 7, 1955) is an American woman convicted of the May 1983 murder of her daughter, and the attempted murder of her other two children.
 Following the shooting, Downs told police a stranger had attempted to carjack her and had shot the children.
 She was convicted in 1984 and sentenced to life in prison plus 50 years.
Beverley Gail Allitt (born 4 October 1968) is an English serial child killer who was convicted of murdering four children, attempting to murder three other children, and causing grievous bodily harm to a further six.
 The crimes were committed over a period of 59 days between February and April 1991 in the children's ward at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Lincolnshire, where Allitt was employed as a State Enrolled Nurse.
 She administered large doses of insulin to at least two victims and a large air bubble was found in the body of another, but police were unable to establish how all the attacks were carried out.
 In May 1993, at Nottingham Crown Court, she received 13 life sentences for the crimes.
 Mr. Justice Latham, sentencing, told Allitt that she was "a serious danger" to others and was unlikely ever to be considered safe enough to be released.
 She is detained at Rampton Secure Hospital in Nottinghamshire.
L'assassino è ancora tra noi is a 1986 Italian horror film written and directed by Camillo Teti, and co-written by Ernesto Gastaldi and Giuliano Carnimeo.
 It is loosely based on the crimes of the Italian serial killer known as "the Monster of Florence".
Madison County is a 2011 horror film directed and written by Eric England.
 The film was first released on October 17, 2011.
 It stars Colley Bailey, Matt Mercer, and Ace Marrero as a group of college kids out to interview an author of a true crime book, only to end up targeted by a killer.
The Afflicted (also known as Another American Crime) is a 2011 horror film written and directed by Jason Stoddard.
 It is loosely based on the crimes of California killer Theresa Knorr.
"The Mentalist" is an American crime procedural television series that ran from September 23, 2008 until February 18, 2015, on CBS.
 The series follows Simon Baker as Patrick Jane, an independent consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI) based in Sacramento, California and later on for the FBI.
 He has a remarkable track record for solving serious crimes by using his amazing skills of observation.
 Jane also makes frequent use of his mentalist abilities and his semi-celebrity past as a psychic medium using paranormal abilities he now admits he feigned.
 He abandoned his pretense out of remorse when his attention-seeking behavior attracted the attention of a serial killer, Red John, who killed his wife and daughter.
 With the exception of "Pilot", the first episode, and up through "Red John", the eighth episode of season six, the titles of all episodes refer or allude to "red" (or some shade thereof) as a word, color, or concept.
 Titles of episodes after this episode refer to different colors (e.g. white, silver, violet, blue, grey, black).