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Serial Killer Documentary - Katherine Knight： Cannibal, Psychopath, Mother and Wife · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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  Speaker 1: Tonight on Beyond the Dark Lands, meet the woman who
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  Speaker 1: committed a crime so barbaric it shocked the world and
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  Speaker 1: brought the worst kind of fame to the small town
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  Speaker 1: of Aberdeen.
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  Speaker 2: She wasn't mad. She was just evil.
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  Speaker 3: She could switch on and off so quickly.
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  Speaker 4: It was just that explosive anger which would come out
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  Speaker 4: to the extreme.
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  Speaker 1: Following years of brutal attacks, Catherine Knight committed a murder
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  Speaker 1: that's almost incomprehensible.
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  Speaker 5: I couldn't believe it.
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  Speaker 6: I was horrified.
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  Speaker 7: She took a sort of malevolent pleasure in death.
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  Speaker 1: In 2001, Catherine Knight was the first Australian woman to
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  Speaker 1: be jailed for the term of her natural life, never
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  Speaker 1: to be released.
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  Speaker 3: I went out and cut his dog's throat.
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  Speaker 2: Was the dog dead?
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  Speaker 3: It was a clean cut, they said.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight, clinical psychologist Dr. Leah Jaritano takes us inside the
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  Speaker 1: mind of Australia's most vicious female killer and explains why
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  Speaker 1: she comes from beyond the dark lands.
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  Speaker 8: This is one of the most distressing and disturbing murders
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  Speaker 8: ever committed in this country. In fact, this horrendous slaughter
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  Speaker 8: is notorious around the world, not just for its gruesome brutality,
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  Speaker 8: but because it was committed by a rare creature, a
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  Speaker 8: female psychopath. To even try to make sense of how
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  Speaker 8: Catherine Knight could commit such a terrible act, we need
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  Speaker 8: to understand where she came from and where she was
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  Speaker 8: always destined to go.
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  Speaker 1: This story takes place in New South Wales at the
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  Speaker 1: Upper Hunter Valley in coal mining and cattle country. At
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  Speaker 1: the heart of the story is the Aberdeen Meatworks, the
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  Speaker 1: town's lifeblood for more than 100 years. In the 1940s,
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  Speaker 1: the manager of the abattoir was Jack Rowan. He was
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  Speaker 1: married to Barbara and they had four sons. It was
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  Speaker 1: a huge scandal when Barbara ran off with another abattoir
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  Speaker 1: worker Ken Knight. Ken and Barbara had four more children,
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  Speaker 1: two boys and two girls. Among them was Catherine Mary Knight,
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  Speaker 1: born on the 24th of October 1955 at Tamworth Hospital,
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  Speaker 1: just half an hour after her twin sister Joy.
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  Speaker 7: They were hard people. They were abattoir workers. They were itinerant.
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  Speaker 7: They moved around a lot. They grew up in abusive
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  Speaker 7: families and they were abusive families.
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  Speaker 2: It was all they knew.
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  Speaker 1: Catherine and Joy were toddlers when their mother's first husband died,
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  Speaker 1: leaving Barbara to raise eight children.
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  Speaker 7: Catherine moved through a lot of schools. She was very
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  Speaker 7: close to her sister Joy, but she didn't have a
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  Speaker 7: lot of close friends. And Catherine was not a confident
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  Speaker 7: girl and didn't make friends easily. She had a terrible temper,
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  Speaker 7: but she was also very shy.
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  Speaker 1: Catherine craved her mother's love and affection, even though she
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  Speaker 1: claims Barbara frequently beat her.
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  Speaker 7: When a child is brought up like that, a child
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  Speaker 7: turns out very damaged goods, as Catherine did, and a
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  Speaker 7: lot of her siblings did too.
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  Speaker 1: Ken wasn't one to back down from hitting his wife
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  Speaker 1: or kids. But according to family, Barbara gave almost as
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  Speaker 1: good as she got.
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  Speaker 7: Catherine and some of her partners alleged that her father
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  Speaker 7: was very violent towards her mother, that he demanded sex
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  Speaker 7: and he got it no matter what went on.
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  Speaker 2: Catherine was witness to this. It was never hidden.
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  Speaker 7: And Catherine also suggests that she was the victim of
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  Speaker 7: abuse at the hands of family members, sexual and physical abuse.
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  Speaker 8: By age three or four, something would already have died
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  Speaker 8: within Catherine. She knew no one was going to come
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  Speaker 8: to make things better. So she had to learn to
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  Speaker 8: fight or to hide. Obviously, very young children can't fight back.
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  Speaker 8: So when they're under severe threat, some will dissociate. This
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  Speaker 8: is more or less like a circuit tripping. Catherine was
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  Speaker 8: overwhelmed and she mentally disconnected. But while she was in
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  Speaker 8: that state, she was missing out on developing the range
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  Speaker 8: of emotions that make us human, emotions like love, happiness,
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  Speaker 8: joy and empathy.
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  Speaker 1: Catherine grew up with a fear of rape and was
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  Speaker 1: forever claiming that men had abused her. At school, she
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  Speaker 1: was known for her sudden and violent temper.
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  Speaker 7: I remember one of her classmates telling me that, She
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  Speaker 7: saw Catherine turn on her sister Joy. It was an
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  Speaker 7: argument about whose turn it was to ride the bicycle home. Now, girls,
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  Speaker 7: sisters in that situation might pinch or pull hair or
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  Speaker 7: slap each other or shout and cry.
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  Speaker 2: They beat the crap out of each other with their fists.
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  Speaker 1: At 15, Catherine left Musselbrook High School. She could barely
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  Speaker 1: read or write and had no qualifications.
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  Speaker 7: Her one great hope in life, her aspiration in life,
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  Speaker 7: was to work at the abattoir. She wanted to go
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  Speaker 7: where her brothers went, her father went, her mother had been,
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  Speaker 7: her grandfather had been.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone she knew and respected worked at the abattoir.
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  Speaker 1: At 16, she landed her dream job. She began in
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  Speaker 1: the offal room and later became a boner.
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  Speaker 9: They used to bone 600 a day and kill 600
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  Speaker 9: a day at the end. But, yeah, it was just
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  Speaker 9: like everybody in Aberdeen used to work in the meatworks.
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  Speaker 6: Catherine was in her element.
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  Speaker 9: A lot of the women and a lot of the
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  Speaker 9: people used to come up out of the bone room,
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  Speaker 9: stand there and watch through the area, watch the people
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  Speaker 9: slaughter the cattle.
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  Speaker 6: It wasn't unusual.
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  Speaker 1: The best part about the job was that she was
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  Speaker 1: given her own set of knives, blades that soon became
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  Speaker 1: her most prized possession.
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  Speaker 2: There was something disturbing about the way Catherine loved to work.
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  Speaker 2: Other workers talk of her nicking.
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  Speaker 7: Arteries just to watch the carcasses bleed or the animals bleed.
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  Speaker 2: She took a sort of malevolent pleasure in death.
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  Speaker 8: Catherine's pathological profile means she would also have had many
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  Speaker 8: fantasies about killing people. Fortunately for those around her, her
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  Speaker 8: bloodlust was partially satisfied at the abattoir. The abattoir was
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  Speaker 8: her killing field. Catherine got off on the screaming and
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  Speaker 8: the blood of the animals being put to death. She
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  Speaker 8: would also have loved the fear she instilled in others
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  Speaker 8: who watched her and saw that nothing could faze her.
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  Speaker 1: When she wasn't at work, Catherine was hanging out with
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  Speaker 1: the new bloke in town, Dave Callard, better known as
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  Speaker 1: Shorty Callard.
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  Speaker 2: She probably stood a head taller than him. I believe
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  Speaker 2: that David.
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  Speaker 7: Was Catherine's first sexual partner and once they discovered sex,
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  Speaker 7: they fell for it in a big way. And this
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  Speaker 7: was the 70s. He was a wild-drinking, wild-living young man.
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  Speaker 7: And I think one day he woke up and realised
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  Speaker 7: that he'd proposed to her.
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  Speaker 2: The violence was announced on the.
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  Speaker 7: Wedding night when David woke up with Catherine attempting.
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  Speaker 2: To choke him.
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  Speaker 7: She was furious that they hadn't had sex five times
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  Speaker 7: because Catherine had been told that her mum and dad
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  Speaker 7: had sex five.
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  Speaker 2: Times on their wedding night and she figured that this
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  Speaker 2: was normal.
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  Speaker 7: David had expired after two attempts and she tried to
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  Speaker 7: kill him.
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  Speaker 1: David died of a heart attack in 2007. But his
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  Speaker 1: sister remembers the first time he took his 18-year-old bride
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  Speaker 1: home to Coffs Harbour to meet the family.
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  Speaker 3: I think in the beginning they were madly in love.
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  Speaker 10: I thought they were totally opposite. You know, the tall
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  Speaker 10: redhead marries the little short, dark person. But then they
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  Speaker 10: say opposites attract.
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  Speaker 11: Well, she was just a girl, auburn, curly hair with glasses,
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  Speaker 11: much taller than David, and I hoped the best for them.
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  Speaker 10: I went to live with her and David in Aberdeen
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  Speaker 10: for a few months, and of course I got to
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  Speaker 10: know her a lot better then.
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  Speaker 3: She was working at the abattoirs. She was lovely. She
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  Speaker 3: was very charming. We got on very well, actually. Most
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  Speaker 3: of the time that they were married, Cathy and I
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  Speaker 3: got on very, very well.
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  Speaker 11: There was always something about the family that I wasn't
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  Speaker 11: sure of. I just felt there was a roughness around
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  Speaker 11: the edges.
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  Speaker 1: But the most worrying thing about Catherine was her rapid
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  Speaker 1: mood changes.
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  Speaker 3: She could be extremely happy.
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  Speaker 10: She'd walk around the house humming and singing and the
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  Speaker 10: next minute she'd just fly into a rage. When Cathy
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  Speaker 10: was cranky, she got this strength about her. She became
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  Speaker 10: so strong that she could have picked David up and
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  Speaker 10: thrown him across the room.
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  Speaker 1: Catherine had already begun threatening people with her treasured knives,
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  Speaker 1: which were never far from reach.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what David always said to us.
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  Speaker 10: Once she gets cranky, just get out of the way,
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  Speaker 10: because if she picked up a knife or whatever, it
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  Speaker 10: was too late to get out.
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  Speaker 5: Of the way.
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  Speaker 1: By her 20th birthday, Catherine was pregnant and highly suspicious
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  Speaker 1: of her husband, who had found himself a new girlfriend.
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  Speaker 7: David wasn't the most loyal husband and admitted to me
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  Speaker 7: later that he had pretty poor morals at that period
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  Speaker 7: of his life. He was just a young man. bloke
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  Speaker 7: and I suspect he wasn't always that comfortable at home anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Catherine and David's baby, Melissa, was born on the 11th
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  Speaker 1: of May 1976. Six weeks later, Catherine tried to stab
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  Speaker 1: her husband with a broken beer bottle. Sick of his
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  Speaker 1: wife's psycho ways, Kellett ran away to Queensland with his
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  Speaker 1: new girlfriend, having no idea of the lengths his wife
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  Speaker 1: would go to to punish him for leaving her. In
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  Speaker 1: July 1976, 20 year old Catherine Knight was furious. Her
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  Speaker 1: husband of two years had recently abandoned her, leaving Catherine
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  Speaker 1: with their two month old baby. Catherine was obsessively jealous
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  Speaker 1: and knowing David had run off with another woman, sent
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  Speaker 1: her right over the edge.
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  Speaker 7: Catherine was seen walking down the main street of Aberdeen,
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  Speaker 7: swinging the pram violently from one side to the other.
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  Speaker 2: She was dishevelled, she was wailing, she was a mad woman.
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  Speaker 7: And it looked like at one stage she was going
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  Speaker 7: to send the pram hurling into the traffic.
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  Speaker 1: The police were called, and Catherine was admitted to St
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  Speaker 1: Elmo's Psychiatric Hospital in Tamworth.
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  Speaker 6: She was treated with antidepressants.
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  Speaker 1: She was back home after a couple of weeks, but
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  Speaker 1: there was still no sign of David and her rage
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  Speaker 1: hadn't subsided. Unaware she was being watched by Lorna from
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  Speaker 1: the corner store, she placed 12-week-old Melissa on the railway
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  Speaker 1: tracks and walked away. The southbound train was due any minute.
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  Speaker 7: Ted Abrahams found the baby on the track before the
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  Speaker 7: train came.
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  Speaker 2: It was a touch-and-go thing, I believe.
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  Speaker 12: And then in the meantime, she left the line and
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  Speaker 12: went up to a house just up the road and
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  Speaker 12: raced into the backyard of it and grabbed the axe
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  Speaker 12: and was swinging it around in her head.
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  Speaker 1: Catherine was taken back to the same psychiatric ward at
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  Speaker 1: St Elmo's Hospital, but checked herself out the same day.
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  Speaker 1: Less than 24 hours later, she snapped again.
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  Speaker 7: She went around to a neighbour's house and knocked on
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  Speaker 7: the door and said, my baby's ill, you need to
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  Speaker 7: drive me to the hospital.
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  Speaker 6: The family agreed.
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  Speaker 1: Catherine went home and the woman and her children drove
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  Speaker 1: to Catherine's place and found her very agitated.
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  Speaker 7: And one of the daughters went in with Catherine to
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  Speaker 7: get Melissa out of the cot. Instead of getting Melissa
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  Speaker 7: out of the cot, Catherine produced a knife and began
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  Speaker 7: chasing this teenage girl out of the house. She slashed
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  Speaker 7: her face under the lemon tree. Then she took the
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  Speaker 7: family hostage and said that she wanted them to drive
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  Speaker 7: her to David Kellett's mother's house.
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  Speaker 6: She wanted to kill David's mother.
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  Speaker 1: She knew a surefire way to get a man's attention
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  Speaker 1: was to go after his mum.
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  Speaker 7: Somehow the family convinced Catherine that they needed to stop
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  Speaker 7: at the service station and that one of the boys
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  Speaker 7: should be let go because.
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  Speaker 2: He was asthmatic.
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  Speaker 6: The boy alerted the police.
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  Speaker 7: It took two policemen and the service station attendant to
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  Speaker 7: quieten Catherine down.
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  Speaker 2: She was swinging a.
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  Speaker 7: Big metal rod at the service station attendant, threatening to
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  Speaker 7: kill people.
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  Speaker 2: Again, she wasn't charged. Again, she was shipped off to
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  Speaker 2: a mental institution.
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  Speaker 8: Catherine uses violence and fear to intimidate people into doing
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  Speaker 8: exactly as she wants. She's seen it done in her
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  Speaker 8: own family and she's carrying on the tradition. But while
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  Speaker 8: Catherine's rage is at times spontaneous, At other times, she's
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  Speaker 8: coldly calculating. You see, Catherine enjoys seeing people terrified of
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  Speaker 8: her unpredictability. She's amused by their fear.
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  Speaker 1: In Queensland, things weren't working out for David and his
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  Speaker 1: now pregnant girlfriend.
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  Speaker 7: When David heard what had happened with Catherine back in Aberdeen,
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  Speaker 7: he called his mother and they decided to go back
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  Speaker 7: and collect her from the psychiatric institution at Morissette.
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  Speaker 1: Catherine was released into Florence's care. The following day, David
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  Speaker 1: drove his wife and mother to Aberdeen to pick up
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  Speaker 1: baby Melissa. This was only the second time Florence had
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  Speaker 1: met Catherine's mother, Barbara.
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  Speaker 11: Cathy's mother came out to the car, proceeded to choke
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  Speaker 11: David through the window.
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  Speaker 6: I was petrified.
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  Speaker 7: David.
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  Speaker 11: David just.
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  Speaker 11: I held the steering wheel.
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  Speaker 7: David's mother was sitting in the back of the car,
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  Speaker 7: freaking out. She didn't know what to do.
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  Speaker 2: She'd never seen people behave like this in her life.
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  Speaker 2: She was a very nice woman.
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  Speaker 11: Cathy came out, saw what her mother was doing, hit
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  Speaker 11: her with a fist across the head and knocked her
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  Speaker 11: mother down. That saved David's life.
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  Speaker 7: Here was the father yelling, the mother unconscious in the dirt,
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  Speaker 7: the daughter with the grazed knuckles from what she'd just done.
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  Speaker 2: It was a circus.
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  Speaker 1: A few weeks later, Catherine and David relocated to Woodridge
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  Speaker 1: in Queensland.
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  Speaker 6: To make a fresh start.
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  Speaker 1: David got a job driving trucks and Catherine began work
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  Speaker 1: at an abattoir near Brisbane. In October 76, David organised
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  Speaker 1: a surprise 21st party for his wife.
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  Speaker 10: And she was just so thrilled that she couldn't stop
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  Speaker 10: kissing him all night because she was feeling like a
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  Speaker 10: princess for a night.
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  Speaker 3: That night she was so well behaved and it was
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  Speaker 3: a good night. We all enjoyed ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: It was in Queensland that Catherine's love of her work
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  Speaker 1: knives became obsessive. She started taking them everywhere she went.
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  Speaker 1: She even hung them above the bed when she slept.
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  Speaker 11: And I said to Cathy, why do you have knives
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  Speaker 11: in the bed or hang them on the wall? She said,
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  Speaker 11: shrugged her shoulders and with a pout, you know, she
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  Speaker 11: was just childlike. They're there in case I need them.
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  Speaker 11: They were her pride and joy. I think she loved
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  Speaker 11: her knives as much as she loved David.
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  Speaker 1: While staying with them at Woodridge, Sandy witnessed one vicious
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  Speaker 1: act she'll never forget.
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  Speaker 10: There was one occasion that I heard one of her
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  Speaker 10: children crying very, very loudly in the bathroom. And I
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  Speaker 10: went in to see why there was so much crying
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  Speaker 10: in the bathroom. And she had the hot tap on
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  Speaker 10: and she was holding her daughter under.
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  Speaker 3: The hot tap. I told David what I saw.
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  Speaker 10: And my brother said, promise me, Sandy, you won't say
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  Speaker 10: anything to Kathy tonight because she will kill you in
• 17:17
  Speaker 10: your sleep and she will most likely kill me.
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  Speaker 1: By 1979, the couple's marriage was in real trouble. David
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  Speaker 1: found Catherine in bed with another man. She begged him
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  Speaker 1: for one more chance. They moved to Landsborough and Catherine
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  Speaker 1: convinced her husband to have another baby.
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  Speaker 10: Cathy's moods became worse. She became more violent. And by then,
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  Speaker 10: David was quite scared of being married to her.
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  Speaker 6: David had every reason to be scared.
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  Speaker 1: He never knew what was going to set Catherine off
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  Speaker 1: and just how brutal she was going to be. The
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  Speaker 1: next attack would come when he was least expecting it
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  Speaker 1: and would almost kill him. It was 1979. and Catherine
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: was pregnant with her second child. Her six-year marriage to
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  Speaker 1: David wasn't going well. He was now very scared of
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  Speaker 1: his wife, never knowing when she would attack him. One night,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: he was late home from the pub because he'd made
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: the finals of the darts competition.
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  Speaker 2: She hated men being late.
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  Speaker 7: But David put it out of the back of his mind,
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  Speaker 7: played in the final, God knows if he won or lost,
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: but he certainly lost when he got home.
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  Speaker 2: Because he walked through the door and she caved in
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: the back of his head with a skillet. She fractured
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  Speaker 2: his skull.
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  Speaker 6: He staggered to a neighbour's place before collapsing.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he was going to die.
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  Speaker 14: I thought she'd cut him in half on the head
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  Speaker 14: because there was just so much blood.
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  Speaker 1: David spent the next week in hospital. Back home, he
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  Speaker 1: discovered what Catherine had been doing while he'd been playing darts.
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  Speaker 2: She grabbed all his stuff and put it all in
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  Speaker 2: the bathtub.
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  Speaker 3: And burnt his shoes, his belts, his socks, his shirts,
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  Speaker 3: his shorts.
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  Speaker 2: He only had the clothes he had on.
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  Speaker 7: The police wanted to press very serious charges against her,
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: but she was back to her sweetest and best and
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: pleaded with him not to do it for the sake
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  Speaker 7: of their children, and he didn't press charges, but she very.
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  Speaker 2: Nearly killed him.
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  Speaker 1: In March 1980, 24-year-old Catherine Knight gave birth to Natasha
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Callett at Nambour Hospital. Around this time, David was driving
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: furniture trucks, which involved being away a lot.
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  Speaker 6: This led to more anxiety and more madness.
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  Speaker 7: One night he woke up with her threatening to stab him.
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: She said, I know you truck drivers have women in
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  Speaker 7: every town you've got one, haven't you?
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  Speaker 2: You've got one. He denied it. He probably did, but
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: he denied it.
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: This eventually put so much strain on their relationship that
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: one day he came home and she'd gone. Out of
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: the blue, everything was gone and she went back home
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: to Aberdeen.
• 20:06
  Speaker 8: It might look like Catherine has a terrible fear of abandonment,
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: that she lashes out when she's frightened David will leave her.
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: In fact, Catherine's anger is triggered when someone doesn't do
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: exactly what she wants. She's not hopelessly in love with
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: David and unable to live without him. She's already cheated
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: on him once, and when it suited her, she left him.
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: When Catherine got back to Aberdeen with the two kids,
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: she wasn't alone very long. She took up with a
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: local bloke called Dave Saunders, who sort of fitted the
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: bill with blokes that Catherine went out with. He was
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: a hard-working, hard-drinking, hard-talking sort of man.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Saunders was a former speedway driver who was working at
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: the coal mines when he met Catherine in 1986.
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: He and his.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Dingo pup soon moved from Scone to Aberdeen to live
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: with Catherine and her daughters. But Saunders reckons the honeymoon
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: period only lasted a couple of months.
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: One night, he opened the door of the house to
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: be met by Catherine, who was in the middle of
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: the ironing. She didn't put the iron down to greet him.
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: She swung it and smashed him in the face with
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: the iron. Apparently, they said you could see the steam
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: marks on the side of his face for weeks later.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: But she wasn't finished.
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: She had him by one arm and was swinging him
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: around the front room of the house, attempting to cave
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: his skull in with the iron. The only reason she
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: was doing this is because he was late home Why
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: did Dave Saunders stay with Catherine Knight? Why did Dave
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: Callot stay with Catherine Knight? Apparently she was fantastic in bed.
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: Things had gotten worse with Saunders. One particularly ugly fight
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: began when he tried to leave her. The fight ended
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: when Catherine ran outside. Saunders followed and saw she was
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: nursing his dingo pup. He realised she was holding a
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: knife and she'd slit his dog's throat. It was dying
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: in front of his eyes. She was that angry at
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: him for leaving her that she killed his dog.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: After she'd killed the dog, she turned up at her
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: sister Joy's place with a shotgun, saying she'd killed Dave Saunders.
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: Catherine has two reasons for telling her sister Joy she's
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: killed Dave. The first is for the shock and distress
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: this will create. She finds this funny. The second reason
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: is because she's actually planning his death. She's rehearsing the
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: method of murder in her mind, and she's experiencing people's
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: reaction to the news without going.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: Through with it.
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: After she killed the dog, Saunders tried to leave Catherine
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: a few times.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: He moved in with mates, but she would never let
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: him go. She was very persistent.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: In June 1988, Catherine and Saunders had a baby daughter.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Saunders bought an old weatherboard cottage at McQueen Street. When
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: their baby was six months old, they moved in. But
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: things hadn't improved and Saunders kept trying to escape.
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: He took long service leave from the mine and told
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: her he was going to visit a mate in another town.
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: He wasn't going to another town and he wasn't coming
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: back either as far as.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: He was concerned.
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: He disappeared and he'd gone to Newcastle and he hid
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: in Newcastle, got another job.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: The fiery redhead was furious that Saunders had managed to
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: get away and so she told their two-year-old daughter her
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: father was dead. While searching for Saunders, she stumbled upon
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: her next prey. This relationship followed her usual pattern.
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: Pretty soon after they got together, she was pregnant. Pretty
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: soon after that, their relationship turned violent. At one stage,
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: she broke his.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Glasses, she hit him. There are a lot of allegations
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: that he hit her.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: This hook-up produced Catherine's first and only son. He was
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: born in March 1991, just 11 months after they met.
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: Their relationship came to a sticky end. She left him
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: with the kids. He felt the abandonment this time and
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: tried to follow her about, but she'd already found a
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: new bloke, and that bloke was John Price.
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: Unfortunately for John Price.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: No one could have foreseen the acts of untold horror
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: that were awaiting him. Catherine Knight had four children to
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: three former partners. All her exes claimed she used to
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: beat them up. In October 1993, she met John Price.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Both were 38 years old. Pricey had an ex-wife and
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: three kids he adored. He was the one for Catherine
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: and she had no intention of letting him get away.
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: Pricey was another bloke who'd left school early, loved to drink,
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: drove big trucks, worked at the mine.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: You know, he was your knockabout, ordinary Australian bloke.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Well, I only met him for a few moments and
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: I thought, what a lovely man. A real country, a
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: lovely man. He shook my hand and I went, wow,
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: you know, good manners too.
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: All four of her partners were very similar people. And
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: there was rarely a night in their lives that they
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: were sober, at least when they were with Catherine.
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: Initially, the relationship was good.
• 25:31
  Speaker 13: They got on quite well.
• 25:33
  Speaker 15: Like, they could sit down and have a conversation and
• 25:35
  Speaker 15: have meals and, you know, I never really seen much arguing.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: I actually didn't mind her. I knew she was different
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: and I knew she was... She was good for Dad,
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: but she wasn't good for Dad. She had a lot
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: of good points and she had a lot of bad points,
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: but the same with Dad. He had good points and
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: he had bad points.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: But some of Catherine's bad points were just downright strange.
• 26:02
  Speaker 15: She'd swerve to hit a dog, like a dog would
• 26:04
  Speaker 15: run across the road and she'd swerve.
• 26:05
  Speaker 13: To hit it. Like, Kath, what are you doing that for?
• 26:07
  Speaker 13: She's like, I don't like dogs.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: The relationship followed the usual pattern.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: This time she didn't get pregnant. She was getting older.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: But there was violence. She beat him. Perhaps he beat her,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know. She says that he did.
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: His children say that there were scars on his body
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: from where she'd stabbed him and hit him.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Pricey's nickname for Catherine was the Speckled Hen. After about
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: 18 months, the Speckled Hen was pushing for a lifelong commitment.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Pricey told her he was only in it for the
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: sex and she ought to get used to it.
• 26:45
  Speaker 13: She wanted Dad to marry her. She wanted Dad to
• 26:48
  Speaker 13: marry her. And Dad wouldn't.
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: When Pricey wouldn't do what she wanted, she'd try to
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: hurt his children.
• 26:57
  Speaker 15: I was, what, a 13-year-old girl, 14-year-old girl, and I'd
• 27:00
  Speaker 15: just come home and she sat me down, like, really
• 27:02
  Speaker 15: serious conversation to tell me that my father wasn't, you know,
• 27:06
  Speaker 15: I wasn't my father's, that my mother had slept with
• 27:08
  Speaker 15: some other bloke, and, you know, I didn't belong to
• 27:11
  Speaker 15: my father.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Although they weren't officially living together, Catherine treated Pricey's place
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: like it was her own. Pricey told friends he wanted
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: her out of his house, but in Catherine's mind, the
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: house was rightly hers. When she found Pricey's will and
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: saw he'd left everything to his ex-wife and kids, she
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: demanded $ 10, 000 to leave. When Pricey refused to give her anything,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: she got a video camera and filmed the first aid
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: kits he'd stolen from work.
• 27:46
  Speaker 16: Catherine said to me, I've got him good and proper now,
• 27:49
  Speaker 16: and I said, What do you mean? And she said,
• 27:51
  Speaker 16: I taped the stuff that he got from work he
• 27:54
  Speaker 16: wasn't supposed to have. And she said, and I sent
• 27:56
  Speaker 16: a video to his workplace and to the cops. And
• 27:59
  Speaker 16: she said, that's fixed him. He's lost his job now.
• 28:02
  Speaker 16: And I can remember thinking at the time, oh, my God,
• 28:06
  Speaker 16: how could you do that to anybody?
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Pricey was 43 and unemployed. Catherine told her daughter Natasha
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: that if Pricey took her back this time, it would
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: be until death.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: I don't know why I went back to her. Maybe
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: he just felt that he needed somebody.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Little did Pricey know that death would come sooner rather
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: than later. Catherine Knight was furious when she videoed first
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: aid kits her partner had stolen from work. She sent
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: the videos to his boss and the police. John Price
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: was sacked. No-one could believe Pricey would take Catherine back
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: after a stunt like that.
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: But he did.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: With her two younger children now at school, Catherine was
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: spending more time alone at home, watching her disturbing horror
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: movies and enjoying the death that surrounded her.
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: One of her favourite places was a lounge room in
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: her home. The lounge room was full of dead things.
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: It was full of skulls and skins and horns.
• 29:19
  Speaker 15: She'd have machetes and all your old farm working stuff,
• 29:24
  Speaker 15: like your little old push mowers and stuff, well they'd
• 29:26
  Speaker 15: be all hanging off the roof. She'd have like animal heads,
• 29:31
  Speaker 15: stuff like animal heads, just all creepy country type of stuff.
• 29:40
  Speaker 8: Catherine's been obsessed with death since she was as young
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: as four or five. She keeps the trophies of dead
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: animals around her, partly because she finds death attractive, the
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: way some of us would view art. But she also
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: loves the way these corpses creep others out. They make
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: people more scared of her. Catherine also watches sadistic movies
• 30:00
  Speaker 8: as though they were pornography. These movies enrich her violent
• 30:04
  Speaker 8: fantasy life.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: It was late 1999 and 44-year-old Catherine was desperately trying
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: to hold on to her man while he was desperately
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: trying to get away from her.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: Deep down, I think that he knew.
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: He knew it was going to happen. He knew. If
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: it wasn't him, it was going to be somebody else.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: The last few days of Pricey's life were building to
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: a grisly climax. On the Sunday before his death, the
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: couple had a massive fight, which resulted in a visit
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: from the police. On Monday, Pricey went to work, and
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: for the first time, he showed two colleagues where Catherine
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: had previously stabbed him.
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: He went back to work on the Tuesday and said
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: to his boss, I've got to go to the courthouse
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: and the police station to see what they can do
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: to keep this crazy bitch away from me.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: The news wasn't good. Pricey was told he'd have to
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: wait three weeks to go to court. He thought he'd
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: probably be dead by then, but had no idea he
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: was already halfway through the last day of his life.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Workmates pleaded with him not to stay at home that night.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: And he said, I've got to go home, because if
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: I don't, she's got to go after me or my kids,
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: and I'd sooner get me than my kids. And she did.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: While Pricey was busy trying to get help, Catherine was
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: playing out her fantasy. She bought a sexy black nightie
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: and then went to Natasha's place to make a.
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: Final family video.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: On the videos, she's kissing and hugging her children and
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: making statements that could be perceived to be her last
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: will and testament.
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: Don't forget that old cane pram that my mum owned.
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: I own, you own. She arrived at St Andrews Street
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: around 11.30pm. Pricey was asleep.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: She watched some TV, had a shower, put on the
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: new black nightie and went to bed.
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: They had sex. And then she struck.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Pricey's workmates were immediately worried when he didn't show up
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: the next day.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: John Price was a person who was always the first
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: to arrive at work. That's why the concern was raised
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: Concerns were raised very early by his workmates.
• 32:34
  Speaker 13: Apparently, they just kept ringing and ringing and ringing. And
• 32:39
  Speaker 13: there was no answer. So they all pretty well knew.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Price had predicted his death.
• 32:47
  Speaker 7: He'd run around town for days trying to get help
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: from magistrates and police and neighbours.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: But nobody took him seriously enough, unfortunately.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Police were called and a crowd of concerned locals gathered
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: outside 84 St Andrews Street. When police forced their way
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: into the house, they found Catherine Knight asleep on the bed.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: She had swallowed a number of pills and was.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Out of it.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: A good friend of mine, she said she was there
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: the morning they brought her out. She said, Rosie, I
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: don't care what anybody says. She walked out of that
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: house as sane as you and I. She said the
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: only one she looked at was my brother and she
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: said she just had a grin on her face. and
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: my brother just dropped to his knees.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: When Detective Sergeant Bob Wells arrived at the scene, Catherine
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Knight was being taken away in an ambulance.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: I initially spoke with the duty officer at the time
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: who briefed me basically of what he'd witnessed inside the premises.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: I then went into the house and it was just
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: totally horrific and it was a shock to everybody that
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: had anything to do with that particular crime scene. I
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: just couldn't believe that one human being, either male or female,
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: without species, could carry out such a calculated offence.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Catherine Knight stabbed John Price 37 times before skinning, beheading,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: and further mutilating his corpse. She then cooked parts of
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: his body, including his head.
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: She'd prepared two plates for his children.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: The meals consisted of human meat and vegetables.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: There was a note beside each plate. It was writing
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: on it with the names.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: John and Bec.
• 34:47
  Speaker 13: She didn't leave me one.
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: Apparently she'd actually put knives through their photos.
• 34:52
  Speaker 13: Left mine alone.
• 34:56
  Speaker 15: Yeah, she's left a couple of notes to my brother
• 34:59
  Speaker 15: and myself. It was more or less along the lines of,
• 35:03
  Speaker 15: if I can't have your father, nobody else will have
• 35:06
  Speaker 15: him either.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: It didn't take long for the unfathomable news to spread.
• 35:11
  Speaker 10: It came over the radio that a lady from Aberdeen
• 35:15
  Speaker 10: had killed her husband and I just looked at my
• 35:19
  Speaker 10: husband and I said, you know, that would have to
• 35:21
  Speaker 10: be my sister-in-law.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: It couldn't be anybody else. It would have to be Cathy.
• 35:26
  Speaker 10: And my husband said, you know, Sandy, you've said a
• 35:29
  Speaker 10: lot of things about her over the years, but I
• 35:30
  Speaker 10: don't think she's that crazy. And then it came over
• 35:33
  Speaker 10: the news only hours later that it was Cathy.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: And it was no surprise to me. It was no
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: surprise to any of our family.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: The police had the dreadful task of informing Pricey's family.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: They spoke to his son, Jonathan, but no-one knew how
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: to tell 14-year-old Rebecca... She read the horrendous details in
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: a newspaper.
• 35:58
  Speaker 13: I just asked my mum if it was true. She
• 36:00
  Speaker 13: said yes. I just laid on the floor for about
• 36:03
  Speaker 13: three hours and couldn't move. I was just so sick. Sick, that's, yeah,
• 36:08
  Speaker 13: I was just so sick. Just wanted to vomit. I just, yeah,
• 36:11
  Speaker 13: couldn't believe it.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: For the next six days, Catherine was at Musselbrook and
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Maitland hospitals. She claimed to have no knowledge of the
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: monstrous crime she had committed. But two things would lead
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: to her undoing. Greed and the testimony from one of
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: those closest to her. Catherine Knight stabbed her lover 37 times.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: She skinned, beheaded and cooked parts of him. She then
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: took some pills to make it look like she'd tried
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: to take her own life. Detective Sergeant Bob Wells first
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: interviewed Catherine at Maitland Hospital just a few days after
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: the murder.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Do you recall Pricey being in the bed? I can't
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: remember anything.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: Do you recall yourself going to bed?
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Faintly.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Although she claims to have no memory of the night
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: of Pricey's death, she did remember stabbing him six months earlier.
• 37:18
  Speaker 14: Once Pricey got off the phone He started on me
• 37:22
  Speaker 14: and I was around washing up and it could have
• 37:26
  Speaker 14: been a fork, a spoon or anything in my hand.
• 37:28
  Speaker 13: It was a knife that cut your meal with and
• 37:31
  Speaker 13: I aimed it at him and it got him.
• 37:35
  Speaker 14: He was leaning closer than what I thought and my
• 37:40
  Speaker 14: eyesight was bad at that time. I've only had new
• 37:41
  Speaker 14: glasses since then.
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: You had this notion that Catherine Knight might have been
• 37:46
  Speaker 7: the most evil woman to ever walk the planet. You
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: didn't want to walk into the same room as her.
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: You didn't want to set eyes on her. But what
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: was most surprising was when you did see her, just
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: how terribly ordinary she looked. She could have been a librarian.
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: If you walked past her in the supermarket, you wouldn't
• 38:02
  Speaker 7: have thought.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: Twice of it. She was a very ordinary-looking woman.
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: They showed the video of the crime scene in court,
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: and it's perhaps the most horrific video.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: you would ever wish to see.
• 38:15
  Speaker 7: It's just unimaginable what the police saw that day and
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: what was recorded on that video. The skin looked like
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: a wetsuit. It took you a while to work out
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: what it was. It was hanging on a butcher's hook
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: in the doorway. It had all come off in one piece.
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: Probably the worst bit of the video was when they
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: went to the stove in the kitchen and you see
• 38:38
  Speaker 7: the gloved hand of a forensic policeman take the lid
• 38:41
  Speaker 7: off the pot on the top of the stove. And
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: inside it's Price's head staring back up at the camera.
• 38:49
  Speaker 10: That to me is Cathy showing her ultimate power.
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: I've suffered a nervous breakdown in relation to my involvement
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: in this matter. I know that it had a huge
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: impact on the officers that day. Although Catherine had displayed
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: this bizarre behaviour, committed this absolutely shocking and horrific crime,
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: that through the tests that those psychiatrists carried out, they
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: believed that she was not suffering from any form of
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: mental illness.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Further evidence to support she was of sound mind was
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: discovered by John Price's solicitor, who noticed money had been
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  Speaker 1: withdrawn from Price's account the night he was killed.
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  Speaker 4: Catherine had gone and driven some substantial distance to the
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  Speaker 4: township of Musselbrook, where she withdrew $ 1, 000 from John Price's
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  Speaker 4: account bank account by way of using his key card.
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  Speaker 4: And then after all that, returning to the crime scene.
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  Speaker 5: She was trying to plead insanity and she told her
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  Speaker 5: brother that she's going to kill Pricey.
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  Speaker 13: She said, I'm going to kill him and she said,
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  Speaker 13: I'm going to get away with it.
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  Speaker 5: She said, I'm going to do it in the way
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  Speaker 5: to make him think.
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  Speaker 13: That I'm crazy.
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  Speaker 5: And her brother had actually made a statement against her
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  Speaker 5: about her saying that.
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  Speaker 13: She told him three weeks before she murdered Dad.
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  Speaker 10: David rang me and he said, you know, she's finally
• 40:29
  Speaker 10: done it. And I said, how do you feel about that?
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  Speaker 10: He said, Sandy, I just cannot believe that it was
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  Speaker 10: not me.
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  Speaker 1: On 18 October 2001, Catherine Knight pleaded guilty to murdering
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  Speaker 1: John Price. She was sentenced to life imprisonment.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, for some reason, I just can't seem
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  Speaker 5: to hate her. I can't feel the hate. But a
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: lot of my friends have always said to me that's
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: a good thing, that that's a lot of my dad
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  Speaker 5: inside me because dad was how dad was.
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  Speaker 13: He was, he didn't hate anybody. And he used to
• 41:07
  Speaker 13: say to me, babe, just be happy. Just be happy.
• 41:09
  Speaker 13: Just be happy.
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  Speaker 16: I can remember asking her sister, Joy, had she been
• 41:17
  Speaker 16: to see Catherine and I think at that point in
• 41:20
  Speaker 16: time she'd been twice, but Catherine had said to her
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  Speaker 16: that she didn't want visitors and that she was happy
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  Speaker 16: where she was because she felt safe now.
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: I'd never been tempted to visit Catherine Knight in prison.
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: I've spent most of.
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  Speaker 6: My time.
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  Speaker 4: Through treatment trying to forget about the actions of Catherine Knight, basically.
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  Speaker 7: With all of the partners that survived Catherine Knight, whenever
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  Speaker 7: I sat down to talk to them, here were tough men,
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  Speaker 7: calloused hands, cigarettes, rough faces, rough talking. All three at
• 42:01
  Speaker 7: one stage or another burst into tears as they described
• 42:04
  Speaker 7: the violence they suffered at her hands. They were genuine
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  Speaker 7: victims of domestic violence. No matter how hard their outer shell,
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  Speaker 7: they were rattled by what Catherine had done to them
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  Speaker 7: and they remained rattled for decades later.
• 42:19
  Speaker 8: So could it be possible that Catherine Knight was sane
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  Speaker 8: when she committed this murder? How could someone in their
• 42:25
  Speaker 8: right mind do something so completely deranged? Well, the fact
• 42:30
  Speaker 8: is that Catherine was not insane when she butchered John Price.
• 42:34
  Speaker 8: She planned what she was doing, she knew right from wrong,
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  Speaker 8: and there were no voices telling her to kill him.
• 42:40
  Speaker 8: She was coldly lucid throughout the murder and dismemberment. And
• 42:45
  Speaker 8: not only was she in her right mind, She was
• 42:47
  Speaker 8: having one of the best times of her life. So
• 42:51
  Speaker 8: if she's not mad, is Catherine just bad? Is she
• 42:54
  Speaker 8: some kind of evil monster, completely alien to the rest
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  Speaker 8: of us? Catherine Knight's personality is best summed up in
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  Speaker 8: one word, psychopath. She's ruthless, self-serving, incapable of feeling guilt
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  Speaker 8: and dangerous until the day she dies.
• 43:24
  Speaker 7: For the first time, the real story behind Australia's notorious Mr.
• 43:29
  Speaker 9: Asia.
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  Speaker 2: He was a vicious little bugger. How he got beautiful
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: young women under his spell.
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  Speaker 3: He had something about him that people were attracted to.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: The corpse he had under his thumb.
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  Speaker 14: Goodbye the New South Wales and the Queensland police for
• 43:42
  Speaker 14: a hamburger.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: And why most of his friends ended belly up. A
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: lot more people disappeared than we had found out about.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: The true story of Terry Clark. Seven's new Beyond the
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Dark Lands. Next Monday, 9.30.