Latest / The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories / Serial Killer Documentary - Katherine Knight: Cannibal, Psychopath, Mother and Wife
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Time Tonight on Beyond the dark Lands, meet the woman
- 0:14Speaker 1: who committed a crime so barbaric it shocked the world
- 0:18Speaker 1: and brought the worst kind of fame to the small
- 0:21Speaker 1: town of Aberdeen.
- 0:22Speaker 2: She wasn't mad, she was just evil.
- 0:25Speaker 3: She could switch on and off so quickly.
- 0:28Speaker 4: It was just an explosive anger which would come out
- 0:31Speaker 4: to the extreme.
- 0:33Speaker 1: Following years of brutal attacks, Katherine Knight committed a murder
- 0:37Speaker 1: that's almost incomprehensible. I don't believe it. It was horrified.
- 0:43Speaker 2: She took a sort of malevolent pleasure in death.
- 0:47Speaker 1: In two thousand and one, Katherine Knight was the first
- 0:50Speaker 1: Australian woman to be jailed for the term of her
- 0:52Speaker 1: natural life, never to be released. He went out and.
- 0:56Speaker 3: Cut his dog's throat. It was a plane cut.
- 1:02Speaker 1: Faced Tonight, clinical psychologist doctor Leah Jarretano takes us inside
- 1:08Speaker 1: the mind of Australia's most vicious female acula and explains
- 1:13Speaker 1: why she comes from Beyond the dark Lands.
- 1:31Speaker 5: This is one of the most distressing and disturbing murders
- 1:34Speaker 5: ever committed in this country. In fact, this horrendous slaughter
- 1:38Speaker 5: is notorious around the world, not just for its gruesome brutality,
- 1:42Speaker 5: but because it was committed by a rare creature, a
- 1:45Speaker 5: female psychopath. To even try to make sense of how
- 1:49Speaker 5: Catherine Knight could commit such a terrible act, we need
- 1:52Speaker 5: to understand where she came from and where she was
- 1:55Speaker 5: always destined to go.
- 2:03Speaker 1: This story takes place in New South Wales at the
- 2:05Speaker 1: Upper Hunter Valley, in coal mining and cattle country. At
- 2:11Speaker 1: the heart of the story is the Aberdeen Meatworks, the
- 2:14Speaker 1: town's lifeblood for more than one hundred years. In the
- 2:19Speaker 1: nineteen forties, the manager of the abbatoir was Jack Rowan.
- 2:23Speaker 1: He was married to Barbara and they had four sons.
- 2:27Speaker 1: It was a huge scandal when Barbara ran off with
- 2:30Speaker 1: another abbatar worker, Ken Knight. Ken and Barbara had four
- 2:35Speaker 1: more children, two boys and two girls. Among them was
- 2:40Speaker 1: Katherine Mary Knight, born on the twenty fourth of October
- 2:44Speaker 1: nineteen fifty five at Tamworth Hospital, just half an hour
- 2:48Speaker 1: after her twin sister Joy.
- 2:50Speaker 2: They were hard people, They were abatoire workers.
- 2:53Speaker 6: They were tinerant, They moved around a lot. They grew
- 2:57Speaker 6: up in abusive families, and they were abusive families was
- 3:00Speaker 6: all they knew.
- 3:02Speaker 1: Catherine and Joy were toddlers when their mother's first husband died,
- 3:06Speaker 1: leaving Barbara to raise eight children.
- 3:09Speaker 2: Catherine moved through a lot of schools.
- 3:11Speaker 6: She was very close to her sister Joy, but she
- 3:14Speaker 6: didn't have a lot of close friends. And Catherine was
- 3:17Speaker 6: not a confident girl and didn't make friends easily. She
- 3:20Speaker 6: had a terrible temper, but she was also very shy.
- 3:24Speaker 1: Catherine craved her mother's love and affection, even though she
- 3:27Speaker 1: claims Barbara frequently beat her.
- 3:30Speaker 6: When a child is brought up like that, a child
- 3:32Speaker 6: turns out very damaged goods, as Catherine did, and a
- 3:35Speaker 6: lot of her siblings did too.
- 3:38Speaker 1: Kenn wasn't one to back down from hitting his wife
- 3:41Speaker 1: or kids, but according to family, Barbara gave almost as
- 3:45Speaker 1: good as she got.
- 3:48Speaker 6: Katherine and some of her partners alleged that her father
- 3:51Speaker 6: was very violent towards her mother, that he demanded sex
- 3:54Speaker 6: and he got it no matter what went on. Catherine
- 3:58Speaker 6: was witnessed to this. It was never hidden, and Catherine
- 4:01Speaker 6: also suggests that she was the victim of abuse at
- 4:04Speaker 6: the hands of family members, sexual and physical abuse.
- 4:09Speaker 5: By age three or four, something would already have died
- 4:12Speaker 5: within Catherine. She knew no one was going to come
- 4:15Speaker 5: to make things better, so she had to learn to
- 4:17Speaker 5: fight or to hide. Obviously, very young children can't fight back,
- 4:21Speaker 5: so when they're under severe threat, some will dissociate. This
- 4:25Speaker 5: is more or less like a circuit tripping. Katherine was
- 4:28Speaker 5: overwhelmed and she mentally disconnected. But while she was in
- 4:32Speaker 5: that state, she was missing out on developing the range
- 4:35Speaker 5: of emotions that make us human, emotions like love, happiness, joy,
- 4:40Speaker 5: and empathy.
- 4:43Speaker 1: Catherine grew up with a fear of rape and was
- 4:46Speaker 1: forever claiming that men had abused her. At school, she
- 4:51Speaker 1: was known for her sudden and violent temper.
- 4:54Speaker 6: I remember one of her classmates telling me that she
- 4:57Speaker 6: saw Catherine turn on her sister Joy. It was an
- 4:59Speaker 6: ear about argument about whose turn it was to ride
- 5:02Speaker 6: the bicycle. Now girls, sisters in that situation might pinch
- 5:06Speaker 6: or pull hair, or slap each.
- 5:08Speaker 2: Other or shout and cry. They beat the crap out
- 5:11Speaker 2: of each other with her fists.
- 5:13Speaker 1: At fifteen, Katherine left Musselbrook High School. She could barely
- 5:18Speaker 1: read or write and had no qualifications.
- 5:22Speaker 6: Her one great hope in life. Her aspiration in life
- 5:25Speaker 6: was to work at the Abbatuarre. She wanted to go
- 5:29Speaker 6: where her brothers went. Her father when her mother had been,
- 5:33Speaker 6: her grandfather had been.
- 5:34Speaker 2: Everyone she knew and respected worked at the Abati.
- 5:38Speaker 1: At sixteen, she landed her dream job. She began in
- 5:42Speaker 1: the awful room and later became a boner.
- 5:46Speaker 2: They used to burne six hundred a day. He'd kill
- 5:49Speaker 2: six hundred.
- 5:49Speaker 1: To day at the end.
- 5:50Speaker 6: But yeah, it was just like everybody in Aberdeen used
- 5:53Speaker 6: to work in the meetworks.
- 5:55Speaker 1: Catherine was in her element.
- 5:58Speaker 4: A lot of the women and a lot of them,
- 6:00Speaker 4: A lot of the people used to come up out
- 6:01Speaker 4: of the bathroom, stand there and watch through that area.
- 6:03Speaker 1: I watched the people slaughter of the cattle. It wasn't unusual.
- 6:07Speaker 1: The best part about the job was that she was
- 6:09Speaker 1: given her own set of knives blades that soon became
- 6:13Speaker 1: her most surprized possession.
- 6:16Speaker 6: There was something disturbing about the way Catherine loved to work.
- 6:20Speaker 6: Other workers talk of her nicking arterrees just to watch
- 6:23Speaker 6: watch the carcasses bleed or the animals bleed.
- 6:26Speaker 2: She took a sort of malevolent pleasure in death.
- 6:30Speaker 5: Catherine's pathological profile means she would also have had many
- 6:34Speaker 5: fantasies about killing people. Fortunately for those around her, her
- 6:38Speaker 5: bloodlust was partially satisfied at the abattoir. The abbatoar was
- 6:42Speaker 5: her killing field. Catherine got off on the screaming and
- 6:46Speaker 5: the blood of the animals being put to death. She
- 6:48Speaker 5: would also have loved the fear she instilled in others
- 6:50Speaker 5: who watched her and saw that nothing could phase her.
- 6:55Speaker 1: When she wasn't at work, Catherine was hanging out with
- 6:58Speaker 1: the new bloke in down, Dave Kallard, better known as
- 7:02Speaker 1: Shorty Kallard.
- 7:04Speaker 2: She probably stood a head taller than him.
- 7:07Speaker 6: I believe that David was Catherine's first sexual partner, and
- 7:12Speaker 6: once they discovered sex, they fell for it in a
- 7:14Speaker 6: big way. And this was a seventies He was a wild,
- 7:18Speaker 6: drinking while living young man, and I think one day
- 7:21Speaker 6: he woke up and realized that he proposed to her.
- 7:25Speaker 6: The violence was announced on the wedding night, when David
- 7:30Speaker 6: woke up with Catherine attempting to choke him. She was
- 7:35Speaker 6: furious that they hadn't had sex five times, because Catherine
- 7:38Speaker 6: had been told that her mum and dad had sex
- 7:40Speaker 6: five times on their wedding night, and she figured that
- 7:43Speaker 6: this was normal. David had expired after two attempts, and
- 7:47Speaker 6: she tried to kill him.
- 7:49Speaker 1: David died of a heart attack in two thousand and seven,
- 7:53Speaker 1: but his sister remembers the first time he took his
- 7:55Speaker 1: eighteen year old bride home to kof Sabor to meet
- 7:58Speaker 1: the family.
- 8:00Speaker 3: I think in the beginning they were madly in love.
- 8:04Speaker 7: I thought they were totally opposite, you know, the tall
- 8:07Speaker 7: redhead marries a little, short, dark person.
- 8:12Speaker 3: But then they say oppositees a trap.
- 8:15Speaker 8: Well, she was just a girl, auburn, curly hair with glasses,
- 8:21Speaker 8: much taller than David, and I hoped the best for them.
- 8:28Speaker 7: I went to live with her and David in Aberdeen
- 8:30Speaker 7: for a few months, and of course I got to
- 8:33Speaker 7: know her a lot better than she was working at
- 8:35Speaker 7: the abbatois.
- 8:36Speaker 3: She was lovely, she was very charming. We got on
- 8:39Speaker 3: very well.
- 8:39Speaker 7: Actually, most of the time that they were married, Kathy
- 8:42Speaker 7: and I got on very very well.
- 8:46Speaker 8: There was always something about the family that I wasn't
- 8:50Speaker 8: sure of. I just felt there was a roughness around
- 8:55Speaker 8: the edges.
- 8:57Speaker 1: But the most worrying thing about Catherine was her rapid
- 9:00Speaker 1: mood changes.
- 9:03Speaker 7: She could be extremely happy, she'd walk around the house
- 9:05Speaker 7: humming and singing, and the next minute she'd just fly
- 9:08Speaker 7: into a rage. When Kathy was cranky, she got this
- 9:15Speaker 7: strength about her. She became so strong that she could
- 9:19Speaker 7: have picked David up and thrown him across the room.
- 9:24Speaker 1: Catherine had already begun threatening people with her treasured knives,
- 9:28Speaker 1: which were never far from rage.
- 9:31Speaker 3: And that's what David always said to us.
- 9:34Speaker 7: Once she gets cranky, just get out of the way,
- 9:36Speaker 7: because if she picked up a knife or whatever, it
- 9:40Speaker 7: was too late to get out.
- 9:40Speaker 3: Of the way.
- 9:43Speaker 1: By her twentieth birthday, Catherine was pregnant and highly suspicious
- 9:47Speaker 1: of her husband, who had found himself a new girlfriend.
- 9:52Speaker 6: David wasn't the most loyal husband, and admitted to me
- 9:56Speaker 6: later that he had pretty poor morals at that period
- 9:58Speaker 6: of his life. He was just a young boken I suspect.
- 10:01Speaker 6: He wasn't always that comfortable at home anyway.
- 10:06Speaker 1: Katherine and David's baby, Melissa, was born on the eleventh
- 10:09Speaker 1: of May nineteen seventy six. Six weeks later, Katherine tried
- 10:14Speaker 1: to stab her husband with a broken beer bottle. Sick
- 10:19Speaker 1: of his wife's psycho ways, Callip ran away to Queensland
- 10:22Speaker 1: with his new girlfriend, having no idea of the length
- 10:26Speaker 1: his wife would go to to punish him for leaving
- 10:29Speaker 1: her In July nineteen seventy six, twenty year old Katherine
- 10:37Speaker 1: Knight was furious her husband of two years had recently
- 10:41Speaker 1: abandoned her, leaving Katherine with their two month old baby.
- 10:46Speaker 1: Katherine was obsessively jealous and knowing David had run off
- 10:50Speaker 1: with another woman, sent her right over the edge.
- 10:54Speaker 6: Catherine was seen walking down the main street of Aberdeen,
- 10:58Speaker 6: swinging the pram violently from.
- 11:00Speaker 2: Signed to the other. She was disheveled, she was wailing.
- 11:03Speaker 6: She was a mad woman and it looked like at
- 11:05Speaker 6: one stage she was going to send the pram hurling
- 11:07Speaker 6: into the traffic.
- 11:10Speaker 1: The police were called and Catherine was admitted to Saint
- 11:13Speaker 1: Elmo's Psychiatric Hospital in Tamworth. She was treated with antidepressants.
- 11:19Speaker 1: She was back home after a couple of weeks, but
- 11:22Speaker 1: there was still no sign of David and her rage
- 11:25Speaker 1: hadn't subsided. Unaware she was being watched by Lorna from
- 11:31Speaker 1: the corner store, she placed twelve week old Melissa on
- 11:35Speaker 1: the railway tracks and walked away. The southbound train was
- 11:39Speaker 1: due any minute.
- 11:41Speaker 6: Ted Abrahams found the baby on the track before the
- 11:43Speaker 6: train came.
- 11:45Speaker 2: It was a touch and go thing, I believe, and in.
- 11:49Speaker 9: The meantime, she left the line and went up to
- 11:53Speaker 9: a house just up the road and raced into the
- 11:56Speaker 9: backyard of it and grabbed the X and was swinging
- 12:00Speaker 9: ran in her head.
- 12:05Speaker 1: Catherine was taken back to the same psychiatric wardsint Elmo's Hospital,
- 12:09Speaker 1: but checked herself out the same day. Less than twenty
- 12:13Speaker 1: four hours later, she snapped again.
- 12:17Speaker 6: She went around to a neighbor's house and knocked on
- 12:19Speaker 6: the door and said, my baby's ill.
- 12:21Speaker 2: You need to drive me to the hospital.
- 12:24Speaker 1: The family agreed. Katherine went home, and the woman and
- 12:27Speaker 1: her children drove to Catherine's place and found her very agitated.
- 12:33Speaker 6: And one of the daughters went in with Catherine to
- 12:35Speaker 6: get Melissa out of the cot. Instead of getting Melissa
- 12:40Speaker 6: out of the Catherine produced a knife and began chasing
- 12:43Speaker 6: this teenage girl out.
- 12:44Speaker 2: Of the house.
- 12:46Speaker 6: She slashed her face under the lemon tree. Then she
- 12:50Speaker 6: took the family hostage and said that she wanted them
- 12:53Speaker 6: to drive her to David Kellett's mother's house.
- 12:57Speaker 1: She wanted to kill David's mother. She knew a sure
- 13:00Speaker 1: fire away to get a man's attention was to go
- 13:03Speaker 1: after his mum.
- 13:05Speaker 6: Somehow, the family convinced Catherine that they needed to stop
- 13:08Speaker 6: at the service station and that one of the boys
- 13:10Speaker 6: should be let go because he was asthmatic.
- 13:13Speaker 1: The boy alerted the police.
- 13:16Speaker 6: That took two policemen and the service station attendant to
- 13:20Speaker 6: quiet and Catherine down.
- 13:21Speaker 2: She was swinging a big.
- 13:22Speaker 6: Metal rod at the service station attendant, threatening to kill
- 13:27Speaker 6: people again.
- 13:29Speaker 2: She was in charged again. She was shipped off to
- 13:31Speaker 2: a mental institution.
- 13:33Speaker 5: Catherine uses violence and fear to intimidate people into doing
- 13:37Speaker 5: exactly as she wants. She's seen it done in her
- 13:40Speaker 5: own family and she's carrying on the tradition. But while
- 13:43Speaker 5: Catherine's rage is at times spontaneous, at other times she's
- 13:47Speaker 5: coldly calculating. You see, Catherine enjoys seeing people terrified of
- 13:51Speaker 5: her unpredictability. She's amused by their fear.
- 13:57Speaker 1: In Queensland, things weren't working out and he's now pregnant girlfriend.
- 14:03Speaker 6: When David heard what had happened with Catherine back in Aberdeen,
- 14:07Speaker 6: he called his mother and they decided to go back
- 14:10Speaker 6: and collect her from the psychiatric institution at Morrissett.
- 14:15Speaker 1: Catherine was released into Florence's care. The following day, David
- 14:20Speaker 1: drove his wife and mother to Aberdeen to pick up
- 14:22Speaker 1: baby Melissa. This was only the second time Florence had
- 14:27Speaker 1: met Catherine's mother, Barbara.
- 14:30Speaker 8: Kathy's mother came out to the car proceeded to choke
- 14:35Speaker 8: David through the window. I was petrified, David. David just
- 14:45Speaker 8: held the steering wheel.
- 14:48Speaker 3: Oh.
- 14:49Speaker 6: David's mother was sitting in the back of the car
- 14:51Speaker 6: freaking out. She didn't know what to do. She'd never
- 14:53Speaker 6: seen people behave like this in her life. She's a
- 14:55Speaker 6: very nice woman.
- 14:56Speaker 8: Kathy came out, saw what her mother was doing, wing
- 15:00Speaker 8: hit her with a fist across the head and knocked
- 15:08Speaker 8: her mother down. That saved David's life.
- 15:12Speaker 6: He was the father yelling the mother unconsciously the daughter
- 15:16Speaker 6: with the gray's knuckles from what she'd just done. It
- 15:21Speaker 6: was a circus.
- 15:26Speaker 1: A few weeks later, Catherine and David relocated to Woodbridge
- 15:30Speaker 1: in Queensland to make a fresh start. David got a
- 15:34Speaker 1: job driving trucks and Catherine began work at an avatar
- 15:38Speaker 1: near Brisbane. In October seventy six, David organized a surprise
- 15:45Speaker 1: twenty first party for his wife.
- 15:48Speaker 7: And she was just so thrilled that she couldn't stop
- 15:52Speaker 7: kissing him all night because she was feeling like a
- 15:55Speaker 7: princess for a night.
- 15:57Speaker 3: That night she was so well behaved, and it was
- 16:00Speaker 3: a good night. We all enjoyed ourselves.
- 16:04Speaker 1: It was in Queensland that Catherine's love of her work
- 16:07Speaker 1: knives became obsessive. She started taking them everywhere she went.
- 16:12Speaker 1: She even hung them above the bed when she slept.
- 16:17Speaker 8: And I said to Kathy, why do you have knives
- 16:20Speaker 8: in the bed or hang them on the wall. She said,
- 16:24Speaker 8: shrugged her shoulders and with a pout. You know, she
- 16:27Speaker 8: was just a child, like a jud They're there in
- 16:29Speaker 8: case I need them.
- 16:31Speaker 2: They were her pride and joy.
- 16:32Speaker 8: I think she loved those her knives as much as
- 16:35Speaker 8: she loved David.
- 16:37Speaker 1: While staying with them at Woodridge, Sandy witnessed one vicious
- 16:41Speaker 1: act she'll never forget.
- 16:44Speaker 7: There was one occasion that I heard one of her
- 16:48Speaker 7: children crying very very loudly in the bathroom, and I
- 16:54Speaker 7: went in to see why there was so much crying
- 16:59Speaker 7: in the bathroom, and she had the hot tap on
- 17:04Speaker 7: and she was holding her daughter under the hot tap.
- 17:09Speaker 7: I told David what I saw, and my brother said,
- 17:12Speaker 7: promise me, Sandy, you won't say anything to Kathy tonight, because.
- 17:17Speaker 3: She will kill you. When your sleep, and she will
- 17:19Speaker 3: most likely kill me.
- 17:22Speaker 1: By nineteen seventy nine, the couple's marriage was in real trouble.
- 17:27Speaker 1: David found Catherine in bed with another man. She begged
- 17:30Speaker 1: him for one more chance. They moved to Landsborough and
- 17:35Speaker 1: Catherine convinced her husband to have another baby.
- 17:39Speaker 3: Kathy's moods became worse.
- 17:41Speaker 7: She became more violent, and by then David was quite
- 17:45Speaker 7: scared of being married to her.
- 17:47Speaker 1: David had every reason to be scared. He never knew
- 17:51Speaker 1: what was going to set Catherine off and just how
- 17:54Speaker 1: brutal she was going to be. The next attack would
- 17:57Speaker 1: come when he was least expecting it and would almost
- 18:01Speaker 1: kill him. It was nineteen seventy nine and Catherine was
- 18:07Speaker 1: pregnant with her second child. Her six year marriage to
- 18:11Speaker 1: David wasn't going well. He was now very scared of
- 18:15Speaker 1: his wife, never knowing when she would attack him. One night,
- 18:21Speaker 1: he was laid home from the pub because he'd made
- 18:23Speaker 1: the finals of the darts competition.
- 18:27Speaker 6: She hated men being late, but David put it out
- 18:30Speaker 6: of the back of his mind.
- 18:31Speaker 2: Played in the final.
- 18:32Speaker 6: God knows of he won or lost, but he certainly
- 18:34Speaker 6: lost when he got home because he walked through the door.
- 18:37Speaker 2: And she carved in the back of his head with
- 18:38Speaker 2: a skillet. She fractured his skull.
- 18:42Speaker 1: He staggered to a neighbour's place before collapsing.
- 18:46Speaker 8: I thought he was going to die.
- 18:47Speaker 10: I thought she'd cut him in half on the head
- 18:49Speaker 10: because there was just so much blood.
- 18:52Speaker 1: David spent the next week in hospital. Back home, he
- 18:56Speaker 1: discovered what Catherine had been doing while he'd been playing darts.
- 19:01Speaker 8: She grabbed all his stuff and put it all in
- 19:03Speaker 8: the bathtub and bertie shoes, his belts, his socks, his shirts,
- 19:07Speaker 8: his shorts.
- 19:08Speaker 3: He only had the clothes he had on.
- 19:10Speaker 6: The police wanted to press very serious charges against her,
- 19:14Speaker 6: but she was back to her sweetest and best and
- 19:18Speaker 6: pleaded with him not to do it for the sake
- 19:19Speaker 6: of their children, and he didn't press charges, but she
- 19:22Speaker 6: very nearly killed him.
- 19:24Speaker 1: In March nineteen eighty, twenty four year old Katherine Knight
- 19:28Speaker 1: gave birth to Natasha Callet at Nambor Hospital. Around this time,
- 19:34Speaker 1: David was driving furniture trucks, which involved being away a lot.
- 19:39Speaker 1: This led to more anxiety and more madness.
- 19:43Speaker 6: One night, he woke up with her threatening to stab him.
- 19:46Speaker 6: She said, I know you truck divers have women in
- 19:49Speaker 6: every town. You've got one, haven't you. You've got one?
- 19:51Speaker 2: He denied it.
- 19:52Speaker 6: He probably did, but he denied it. This eventually put
- 19:57Speaker 6: so much strain on their relationship that one day he
- 19:58Speaker 6: came home and she gone out of the blue. Everything
- 20:01Speaker 6: was gone, and she went back home into Aberdeen.
- 20:05Speaker 5: It might look like Catherine has a terrible fear of
- 20:08Speaker 5: abandonment that she lashes out when she's frightened David will
- 20:12Speaker 5: leave her. In fact, Catherine's anger is triggered when someone
- 20:16Speaker 5: doesn't do exactly what she wants. She's not hopelessly in
- 20:19Speaker 5: love with David and unable to live without him. She's
- 20:22Speaker 5: already cheated on him once, and when it suited her,
- 20:25Speaker 5: she left him.
- 20:30Speaker 6: When Catherine got back to Aberdeen with the two kids,
- 20:32Speaker 6: she wasn't alone very long. She took up with a
- 20:34Speaker 6: local bloke called Dave Saunders, who sort of fitted the
- 20:37Speaker 6: bill with blokes.
- 20:39Speaker 2: That Catherine went out with.
- 20:40Speaker 6: He was a hard work and hard drinking, hard talking
- 20:43Speaker 6: sort of man.
- 20:44Speaker 1: Saunders was a former speedway driver who was working at
- 20:47Speaker 1: the coal mines when he met Catherine in nineteen eighty six.
- 20:52Speaker 1: He and his dingo pop soon moved from Scone to
- 20:54Speaker 1: Aberdeen to live with Catherine and her daughters, but Saunders
- 20:58Speaker 1: reckons the honeymoon period only lasted a couple of months.
- 21:04Speaker 6: One night, he opened the door of the house to
- 21:07Speaker 6: be met by Catherine, who was in the middle of
- 21:08Speaker 6: the ironing.
- 21:09Speaker 2: She didn't put the iron down to greet him.
- 21:11Speaker 6: She swung it and smashed him in the face with
- 21:14Speaker 6: the iron. Apparently, they said you could see the steam
- 21:16Speaker 6: marks on the side of his face for weeks later.
- 21:19Speaker 2: But she wasn't finished.
- 21:20Speaker 6: She had him by the by one arm and was
- 21:22Speaker 6: swinging him around the front room of the house, attempting
- 21:25Speaker 6: to cave his skull in with the iron. The only
- 21:28Speaker 6: reason she was doing this is because he was late
- 21:29Speaker 6: on Why did Dave Saunders stay with Catherine Knight? Why
- 21:35Speaker 6: did Dave cat stay with Catherine Knight? Apparently she was
- 21:39Speaker 6: fantastic in bed.
- 21:47Speaker 1: Things had gotten worse with Saunders. One particularly ugly fight
- 21:52Speaker 1: began when he tried to leave her. The fight ended
- 21:55Speaker 1: when Catherine ran outside. Saunders followed and saw she was
- 22:00Speaker 1: nursing his dingo parp.
- 22:03Speaker 6: He realized she was holding a knife and she'd slit
- 22:05Speaker 6: his dog's throat it was dying in front of his eyes.
- 22:08Speaker 2: She was that angry at him for leaving her that
- 22:11Speaker 2: she killed his dog.
- 22:13Speaker 1: After she'd killed the dog, she turned up at her
- 22:16Speaker 1: sister Joy's place with a shotgun, saying she'd killed Dave Saunders.
- 22:22Speaker 5: Catherine has two reasons for telling her sister Joy she's
- 22:26Speaker 5: killed Dave. The first is for the shock and distress
- 22:29Speaker 5: this will create. She finds this funny. The second reason
- 22:33Speaker 5: is because she's actually planning his death. She's rehearsing the
- 22:36Speaker 5: method of murder in her mind, and she's experiencing people's
- 22:39Speaker 5: reaction to the news without going through with it.
- 22:44Speaker 6: After she killed the dog, Saunders tried to leave Catherine
- 22:47Speaker 6: a few times. He moved in with mates, but she
- 22:49Speaker 6: would never let him go. She was very persistent.
- 22:53Speaker 1: In June nineteen eighty eight, Catherine and Saunders had a
- 22:56Speaker 1: baby daughter. Saunders bought an old weatherboard cottage a McQueen Street.
- 23:01Speaker 1: When their baby was six months old, they moved in,
- 23:05Speaker 1: but things hadn't improved, and Saunders kept trying to escape.
- 23:10Speaker 6: He took long service leave from the mine and told
- 23:12Speaker 6: her he was going to visit a mate another town.
- 23:15Speaker 6: He wasn't going to another town, and he wasn't coming
- 23:18Speaker 6: back either, as far as he was concerned. He disappeared
- 23:20Speaker 6: and he'd gone to Newcastle, and he hid in Newcastle,
- 23:22Speaker 6: got another job.
- 23:24Speaker 1: The fiery Redhead was furious that Saunders had managed to
- 23:27Speaker 1: get away, and so she told their two year old
- 23:30Speaker 1: daughter her father was dead. While searching for Saunders, she
- 23:35Speaker 1: stumbled upon her next prey. This relationship followed her usual pattern.
- 23:41Speaker 6: Pretty soon after they got together, she was pregnant pretty
- 23:45Speaker 6: soon after that. Their relationship turned violent. At one stage,
- 23:49Speaker 6: she broke his glasses.
- 23:50Speaker 2: She hit him. There are a lot of allegations that
- 23:53Speaker 2: he hit her.
- 23:55Speaker 1: This hookup produced Catherine's first and only son. He was
- 23:59Speaker 1: born in March nineteen ninety one, just eleven months after
- 24:03Speaker 1: they met.
- 24:06Speaker 6: Their relationship came to a sticky end. She left him
- 24:09Speaker 6: with the kids. He felt the abandonment this time and
- 24:14Speaker 6: tried to follow her about, but she'd already.
- 24:16Speaker 2: Found a new book and that bloke with John Price.
- 24:19Speaker 1: Unfortunately for John Bryce, no one could have foreseen the
- 24:23Speaker 1: acts of untold horror that were awaiting him. Catherine Knight
- 24:34Speaker 1: had four children to three former partners. All her exes
- 24:38Speaker 1: claimed she used to beat the marp in October nineteen
- 24:44Speaker 1: ninety three, she met John Price. Both were thirty eight
- 24:47Speaker 1: years old. Bryce he had an ex wife and three
- 24:50Speaker 1: kids he adored. He was the one for Catherine and
- 24:55Speaker 1: she had no intention of letting him get away.
- 24:58Speaker 6: Price he was another He had left school early, loved
- 25:01Speaker 6: to drink, drove big trucks, worked at the mine. You know,
- 25:05Speaker 6: he was your knock about, ordinary Australian bloke.
- 25:08Speaker 7: Well, only meeting for a few moments, and I thought,
- 25:11Speaker 7: what a lovely man, a real country, a lovely man.
- 25:15Speaker 3: He shook my hand and I went, well, you know,
- 25:17Speaker 3: good manners too.
- 25:18Speaker 6: All four of her partners were very similar people and
- 25:22Speaker 6: there was rarely a night in their lives that they
- 25:24Speaker 6: were sober, at least when they were with Catherine.
- 25:27Speaker 1: Initially the relationship was good.
- 25:31Speaker 11: They got on quite well, like they could sit down
- 25:34Speaker 11: and have conversation and have meals, and you know, I
- 25:38Speaker 11: never really seen much arguing.
- 25:42Speaker 12: I actually didn't mind her. I knew she was different,
- 25:46Speaker 12: and I knew she was she was good for Dad,
- 25:49Speaker 12: but she wasn't good for Dad. She had a lot
- 25:51Speaker 12: of good points and she had a lot of bad points.
- 25:53Speaker 12: But the same with Dad. He had good points and
- 25:55Speaker 12: he had bad.
- 25:56Speaker 1: Points, but some of Catherine's bad points we're just downright strange.
- 26:02Speaker 11: She'd swerve to hit a dog, like a dog would
- 26:04Speaker 11: run across the road and she'd swerve to hit it, like, Cather,
- 26:07Speaker 11: what are you doing that? Push like I don't like dogs.
- 26:09Speaker 1: The relationship followed the usual pattern.
- 26:13Speaker 6: This time she didn't get pregnant. She was getting older,
- 26:17Speaker 6: but there was violence. She beat him. Perhaps he beat her,
- 26:21Speaker 6: I don't know. She says that he did. His children
- 26:25Speaker 6: say that there were scars on his body from where
- 26:27Speaker 6: she'd stabbed him and hit him.
- 26:29Speaker 1: Pricey's nickname for Catherine was the Speckled Hen. After about
- 26:34Speaker 1: eighteen months, the Speckled Hen was pushing for a lifelong commitment.
- 26:39Speaker 1: Pricey told her he was only in it for the sex,
- 26:42Speaker 1: and she ought to get used to it.
- 26:45Speaker 12: She wanted Dad to Maria, She wanted dad to Marrion,
- 26:49Speaker 12: and Dad wouldn't.
- 26:51Speaker 1: When Pricey wouldn't do what she wanted, she tried to
- 26:54Speaker 1: hurt his children.
- 26:57Speaker 11: I was what thirteen year old girl, fourteen year old girl?
- 27:00Speaker 11: And I just come home and she set me down,
- 27:01Speaker 11: like really serious conversation to tell me that my father
- 27:05Speaker 11: wasn't you know, I wasn't my father's that my mother
- 27:07Speaker 11: asleept with some other bloke, And you know I didn't
- 27:11Speaker 11: belong to my father.
- 27:13Speaker 1: Although they weren't officially living together, Catherine treated Pricey's place
- 27:18Speaker 1: like it was her own. Pricey told friends he wanted
- 27:22Speaker 1: her out of his house, but in Catherine's mind, the
- 27:25Speaker 1: house was rightly hers. When she found Pricey's will and
- 27:31Speaker 1: saw he'd left everything to his ex wife and kids,
- 27:34Speaker 1: she demanded ten thousand dollars to leave. When Pricey refused
- 27:39Speaker 1: to give her anything, she got a video camera and
- 27:42Speaker 1: filmed the first aid kids he'd stolen from work.
- 27:46Speaker 13: Catherine said to me, I got him good and proper now.
- 27:49Speaker 13: And I said, what do you mean? And she said,
- 27:51Speaker 13: I taped the stuff that he got from work he
- 27:54Speaker 13: wasn't supposed to have. And she said, and I send
- 27:56Speaker 13: a video to his workplace into the cops, and that's fixed.
- 28:00Speaker 13: He's lost his job now. And I can remember thinking
- 28:04Speaker 13: at the time, oh my god, how could you do
- 28:06Speaker 13: that to anybody?
- 28:09Speaker 1: Pricey was forty three and unemployed. Catherine told her daughter
- 28:13Speaker 1: Natasha that if Pricey took her back this time, it
- 28:17Speaker 1: would be until death.
- 28:19Speaker 12: I don't know.
- 28:19Speaker 1: I went back to her.
- 28:23Speaker 12: Maybe he just felt that he needed somebody.
- 28:26Speaker 1: I don't know. Little did Pricy know that death would
- 28:31Speaker 1: come sooner rather than later. Catherine Knight was furious when
- 28:38Speaker 1: she videoed First Aid kits her partner had stolen from work.
- 28:42Speaker 1: She sent the videos to his boss and the police.
- 28:46Speaker 1: John Price was sacked. No one could believe Pricey would
- 28:50Speaker 1: take Catherine back after a stunt like that, but he did.
- 28:57Speaker 1: With her two younger children now at school, Catherine was
- 29:00Speaker 1: spending more time alone at home, watching her disturbing horror
- 29:04Speaker 1: movies and enjoying the death that surrounded her.
- 29:09Speaker 6: One of her favorite places was the lounge room in
- 29:11Speaker 6: her home. The lounge room was full of dead things.
- 29:14Speaker 6: It was full of skulls and skins and horns.
- 29:19Speaker 11: She'd have machetes and all your old farm working stuff,
- 29:24Speaker 11: like your little old push mullers and stuff. Well that'd
- 29:26Speaker 11: be all hanging off the roof. She'd have like animal heads,
- 29:31Speaker 11: stuff like animal heads, just all creepy country type of stuff.
- 29:40Speaker 5: Catherine's been obsessed with death since she was as young
- 29:43Speaker 5: as four or five. She keeps the trophies of dead
- 29:46Speaker 5: animals around her, partly because she finds death attractive. The
- 29:50Speaker 5: way some of us would view art. But she also
- 29:53Speaker 5: loves the way these corpses creep others out. They make
- 29:56Speaker 5: people more scared of her. Catherine also watches sadistic movies
- 30:00Speaker 5: as though there were pornography. These movies enrich her violent
- 30:04Speaker 5: fantasy life.
- 30:07Speaker 1: It was late nineteen ninety nine and forty four year
- 30:10Speaker 1: old Catherine was desperately trying to hold onto her man
- 30:14Speaker 1: while he was desperately trying to get away from her.
- 30:20Speaker 3: Deep down, I think that he knew. He knew what
- 30:22Speaker 3: was going to happen. He knew because on him, it
- 30:27Speaker 3: was going to be somebody else.
- 30:31Speaker 1: The last few days of Pricey's life were building to
- 30:34Speaker 1: a grizzly climax. On the Sunday before his death, the
- 30:38Speaker 1: couple had a massive fight, which resulted in a visit
- 30:41Speaker 1: from the police. On Monday, Pricey went to work and
- 30:47Speaker 1: for the first time, he showed two colleagues where Catherine
- 30:50Speaker 1: had previously stabbed him.
- 30:53Speaker 12: He went back to work on the Tuesday and said
- 30:55Speaker 12: to his boss, I've got to go to the courthouse
- 30:57Speaker 12: and the police station so that they can do to
- 30:58Speaker 12: keep this crazy bitch away from me.
- 31:01Speaker 1: The news wasn't good. Pricey was told he'd have to
- 31:04Speaker 1: wait three weeks to go to court. He thought he'd
- 31:07Speaker 1: probably be dead by then, but had no idea he
- 31:10Speaker 1: was already halfway through the last day of his life.
- 31:17Speaker 1: Workmates pleaded with him not to stay at home that.
- 31:19Speaker 12: Night, and he said, I've got to go home because
- 31:23Speaker 12: if I don't, she's going to go after Mayo my kids,
- 31:25Speaker 12: and I'd sit her, get me the my kids and she.
- 31:31Speaker 1: While Pricey was busy trying to get help, Catherine was
- 31:34Speaker 1: playing out her fantasy. She bought a sexy Black nightety
- 31:39Speaker 1: and then went to Natasha's place to make a final
- 31:41Speaker 1: family video. On the videos, she's kissing and tugging her
- 31:48Speaker 1: children and making statements that could be perceived to be
- 31:51Speaker 1: her last will and testament, don't forget that old Caine
- 31:56Speaker 1: pram that Mama owned, I own you own. She arrived
- 32:02Speaker 1: at Saintantrew's Street around eleven thirty pm. Price he was asleep.
- 32:07Speaker 1: She watched some TV, had a shower, put on the
- 32:11Speaker 1: new Black ninety, and went to bed. They had sex,
- 32:17Speaker 1: and then she struck. Price's workmates were immediately worried when
- 32:23Speaker 1: he didn't show up the next day.
- 32:25Speaker 4: John Price was a person who was always the first
- 32:28Speaker 4: to arrive at work. That's why the consumer was raised.
- 32:31Speaker 4: Concerns were raised very early by his workmates.
- 32:34Speaker 12: Apparently, let us kept bringing and ringing and ringing.
- 32:39Speaker 1: There's no answer, so they all.
- 32:43Speaker 12: Prove on it.
- 32:45Speaker 2: Price had predicted his death.
- 32:47Speaker 6: He'd run around town for days, trying to get help
- 32:50Speaker 6: from magistrates and police and neighbors.
- 32:53Speaker 2: But nobody took him seriously enough. Unfortunately, police were cold.
- 33:00Speaker 1: The crowd of concerned locals gathered outside eighty four Saint
- 33:03Speaker 1: Andrew's Strait. When police forced their way into the house,
- 33:09Speaker 1: they found Catherine Knight asleep on the bed. She had
- 33:12Speaker 1: swallowed a number of pels and was out of it.
- 33:16Speaker 12: A good friend of mine, she said, she was there
- 33:18Speaker 12: the morning they brought her out. She said, Rosie, I
- 33:20Speaker 12: don't care what anybody says. She walked out of that
- 33:23Speaker 12: house as sad as you and I.
- 33:24Speaker 1: She said.
- 33:25Speaker 3: The only one she looked at was my brother.
- 33:26Speaker 12: She said, she just had a grin on her face,
- 33:28Speaker 12: and my brother just dropped to his knees.
- 33:30Speaker 1: When Detective Sergeant Bob Wells arrived at the scene, Catherine
- 33:34Speaker 1: Knight was being taken away in an ambulance.
- 33:38Speaker 4: I initially spoke with the duty officer at the time,
- 33:41Speaker 4: who briefed me basically of what he'd witnessed inside their premises.
- 33:47Speaker 4: I then went into the house and it was just
- 33:50Speaker 4: totally horrific and it was a shock to everybody that
- 33:53Speaker 4: had anything to do with that particular crime scene. I
- 33:56Speaker 4: just couldn't believe that one human being, either male or female,
- 34:00Speaker 4: with how species, could carry out such a calculated a
- 34:07Speaker 4: fence or.
- 34:16Speaker 1: Catherine Knight stabbed John Price thirty seven times before skinning,
- 34:22Speaker 1: beheading and further mutilating his corpse. She then cooked parts
- 34:26Speaker 1: of his body, including his head. She'd prepared two plates
- 34:30Speaker 1: for his children. The meals consisted of human meat and vegetables.
- 34:37Speaker 4: There was a note beside each plate was writing on
- 34:40Speaker 4: it with the names.
- 34:45Speaker 2: John and Beck.
- 34:47Speaker 12: She didn't let me one apparently she'd actually put knives
- 34:51Speaker 12: through their photos.
- 34:52Speaker 3: Left mine alone.
- 34:56Speaker 11: Yeah, she's left a couple of notes to my brother myself.
- 35:01Speaker 11: It was more or less along the lines of if
- 35:04Speaker 11: I can't have your father, nobody else will have him either.
- 35:08Speaker 1: It didn't take long for the unfathomable news to spread.
- 35:12Speaker 7: It came over the radio that a lady from Aberdeen
- 35:15Speaker 7: had killed her husband and I just looked at my
- 35:19Speaker 7: husband and I said, you know that that would have
- 35:21Speaker 7: to be my sister in law.
- 35:22Speaker 3: It couldn't be anybody else. It would have to be Kathy.
- 35:26Speaker 3: And my husband.
- 35:26Speaker 7: Said, you know, Sandy, You've said a lot of things
- 35:29Speaker 7: about her over the years, but I don't think she's
- 35:31Speaker 7: that crazy. And then it came over the news only
- 35:35Speaker 7: hours later that.
- 35:36Speaker 3: It was Kathy. And it was no surprise to me.
- 35:39Speaker 3: It was no surprise to any of our family.
- 35:42Speaker 1: The police had the dreadful task of informing Price's family.
- 35:47Speaker 1: They spoke to his son Jonathan, but no one knew
- 35:50Speaker 1: how to tell fourteen year old Rebecca she read the
- 35:54Speaker 1: horrendous details in a newspaper.
- 35:58Speaker 3: I just asked my mum if it was true.
- 36:00Speaker 13: She said yes.
- 36:02Speaker 11: I just laid on the floor for about three hours
- 36:03Speaker 11: and couldn't move. I was just so sick, sick, that's you.
- 36:08Speaker 1: I was just so sick.
- 36:09Speaker 3: That's wonder woman. I just couldn't believe it.
- 36:13Speaker 1: For the next six days, Catherine was at Musselbrook and
- 36:17Speaker 1: Maitland hospitals. She claimed to have no knowledge of the
- 36:20Speaker 1: monstrous crime she had committed, but two things would lead
- 36:25Speaker 1: to her undoing greed, and the testimony from one of
- 36:29Speaker 1: those closest to her. Catherine Knight stabbed her lover thirty
- 36:38Speaker 1: seven times. She skinned, beheaded and cooked parts of him.
- 36:44Speaker 1: She then took some pills to make it look like
- 36:46Speaker 1: she tried to take her own life. Detective Sergeant Bob
- 36:51Speaker 1: Wells first interviewed Katherine at Maitland Hospital just a few
- 36:55Speaker 1: days after the murder.
- 36:57Speaker 4: You recall price Boom in the bed.
- 36:59Speaker 3: I can't remember anything, do you call yourself?
- 37:03Speaker 2: Gained a bit.
- 37:08Speaker 3: Faintly.
- 37:10Speaker 1: Although she claims to have no memory of the Knight
- 37:12Speaker 1: of Pricey's death, she did remember stabbing him six months earlier.
- 37:18Speaker 10: When Surprise he got off the phone. He started on
- 37:21Speaker 10: me and I was around washing up, and I could
- 37:26Speaker 10: have been a fork, a spoon or anything in my hand.
- 37:28Speaker 10: It was a knife that cut your meal with and
- 37:31Speaker 10: I aimed at ad him and it got him. He
- 37:35Speaker 10: was leaning closer than what I thought, and my eyesight
- 37:40Speaker 10: was bad at that time. I Bonny had new glasses.
- 37:42Speaker 10: Since then, you.
- 37:45Speaker 6: Had this notion that Cassin Knight might have been the
- 37:46Speaker 6: most evil woman to ever walk the planet. You didn't
- 37:49Speaker 6: want to walk into the same room as it. You
- 37:50Speaker 6: didn't want to set eyes on her. But what was
- 37:53Speaker 6: most surprising was when you did see her, just how
- 37:57Speaker 6: terribly ordinary she looked. She could have been a librarian.
- 38:00Speaker 6: If you walked past her in the supermarket, you wouldn't
- 38:02Speaker 6: have thought twice of it. She was a very ordinary
- 38:05Speaker 6: looking woman. They showed the video of the crime scene
- 38:10Speaker 6: in court and it's perhaps the most horrific video you.
- 38:14Speaker 2: Would ever wish to see.
- 38:15Speaker 6: It's just unimaginable what the police saw that day.
- 38:19Speaker 2: And what was recorded on that video. The skin looked like.
- 38:25Speaker 6: A wet suit. It took you a while to work
- 38:27Speaker 6: out what it was. It was hanging on a butcher's
- 38:29Speaker 6: hook in the doorway. It had all come off in
- 38:32Speaker 6: one piece. Probably the worst bit of the video was
- 38:35Speaker 6: when they went to the stove in the kitchen and
- 38:38Speaker 6: you see the gloved hand of a forensic policeman take
- 38:41Speaker 6: the lid off the pot on top of the stove,
- 38:43Speaker 6: and inside its Price's head staring back up at the camera.
- 38:49Speaker 3: That to me is Kathy showing her ultimate power.
- 38:56Speaker 4: I've stuffered a nervous breakdown in relation to.
- 39:01Speaker 2: My involvement in this manner.
- 39:04Speaker 4: I know that it had a huge impact on the
- 39:06Speaker 4: officers that day. Although Catherine had displayed this bizarre behavior
- 39:12Speaker 4: committed this absolutely shocking and horrific crime that through the
- 39:18Speaker 4: tests that they Psychitris carried out, they believed that she
- 39:21Speaker 4: was not suffering from any form of mental illness.
- 39:26Speaker 1: Further evidence to support she was of sound mind was
- 39:29Speaker 1: discovered by John Price's solicitor, who noticed money had been
- 39:33Speaker 1: withdrawn from Price's account. The night he was killed.
- 39:38Speaker 4: Catherine had gone and driven some substantial distance to the
- 39:41Speaker 4: Tangi with Musselbrook, where she withdrew a thousand dollars from
- 39:47Speaker 4: John Price's bank account by way of using his coup
- 39:53Speaker 4: card and then after all that, returning to the crime scene,
- 40:01Speaker 4: just trying.
- 40:02Speaker 12: To play insanity. And she told her brother that she's
- 40:04Speaker 12: going to kill Pricing. She said, I'm going to kill him,
- 40:06Speaker 12: and she said, I'm going to get away with it.
- 40:08Speaker 12: She said, I'm going to do it in the way
- 40:09Speaker 12: to make him think that I'm crazy. And her brother
- 40:14Speaker 12: had actually made a statement against her about her, saying
- 40:18Speaker 12: that she told him three weeks before she murdered.
- 40:23Speaker 7: Dud David rang me and he said, you know, she's
- 40:29Speaker 7: finally done it, And I said, and how do you
- 40:31Speaker 7: feel about that? He said Sandy, I just cannot believe.
- 40:36Speaker 3: That it was not me.
- 40:39Speaker 1: On the eighteenth of October two thousand and one, Catherine
- 40:43Speaker 1: Knight pleaded guilty to murdering John Price. She was sentenced
- 40:47Speaker 1: to life imprisonment.
- 40:49Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 40:50Speaker 12: For some reason, I just can't seem to hate her.
- 40:53Speaker 12: I can't feel the hate. But a lot of my
- 40:56Speaker 12: friends I've always said to me, that's a good thing.
- 41:00Speaker 12: That's a lot of my dad and soy because Dad
- 41:03Speaker 12: was how Dad was, he was, he didn't have anybody,
- 41:06Speaker 12: and he used to say to me, babe, just be happy,
- 41:08Speaker 12: just be happy, Just be happy.
- 41:13Speaker 13: I can remember asking her sister Joy had she been
- 41:17Speaker 13: to see Catherine, and I think at that point in
- 41:21Speaker 13: time she'd been twice. But Catherine had said to her
- 41:24Speaker 13: that she didn't want visitors and that she was happy
- 41:28Speaker 13: where she was because she felt safe.
- 41:30Speaker 4: Now I didn't attempt to visit Catherine Knight in prison.
- 41:35Speaker 2: Night.
- 41:37Speaker 4: I've spent most of my time through treatment trying to
- 41:46Speaker 4: forget about the actions of Catherine Knight. Basically, with all of.
- 41:51Speaker 6: The partners that survived Catherine Knight, whenever I sat down to.
- 41:54Speaker 2: Talk to them, here were tough men, you know.
- 41:56Speaker 6: Colised hands, cigarettes, rough faces, rough talking.
- 42:00Speaker 2: All three, at one.
- 42:02Speaker 6: Stage or another person of tears as they described the
- 42:04Speaker 6: violence they suffered at her hands. They were genuine victims
- 42:09Speaker 6: of domestic violence. No matter how hard they're outer shell.
- 42:13Speaker 6: They were rattled by what Catherine had done to them,
- 42:15Speaker 6: and they remained rattled for decades later.
- 42:19Speaker 5: So could it be possible that Catherine Knight was sane
- 42:22Speaker 5: when she committed this murder? How could someone in their
- 42:25Speaker 5: right mind do something so completely deranged? Well, the fact
- 42:30Speaker 5: is that Catherine was not insane when she butchered John Price.
- 42:34Speaker 5: She planned what she was doing, she knew right from wrong,
- 42:37Speaker 5: and there were no voices telling her to kill him.
- 42:40Speaker 5: She was coldly lucid throughout the murder and dismemberment. And
- 42:45Speaker 5: not only was she in her right mind, she was
- 42:47Speaker 5: having one of the best times of her life.
- 42:50Speaker 2: So if she's not.
- 42:51Speaker 5: Mad, is Catherine just bad? Is she some kind of
- 42:54Speaker 5: evil monster completely alien to the rest of us? Catherine
- 42:59Speaker 5: Knight's person is best summed up in one word psychopath.
- 43:04Speaker 5: She's ruthless, self serving, incapable of feeling guilt, and dangerous
- 43:09Speaker 5: until the day she dies.
- 43:24Speaker 2: For the first time. The real story behind Australia is notorious.
- 43:29Speaker 2: Mister Asia.
- 43:30Speaker 3: He was a vicious little bugger.
- 43:31Speaker 2: How he got beautiful young women under his spell?
- 43:34Speaker 3: He hit something about him that people were attracted.
- 43:37Speaker 2: To the corps he had under his day.
- 43:39Speaker 4: The New South Wales and the Queensland place for a Hamburg.
- 43:43Speaker 2: And why most of his friends end at Bally. A
- 43:46Speaker 2: lot more people disappeared than we had found out about her.
- 43:48Speaker 6: True story of Terry Clarke seventh knew Beyond the Dark
- 43:52Speaker 6: Lands next
- 43:52Speaker 3: Monday, nine point thirty