Latest / Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast / Katherine Knight - Part 1
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- 0:06Speaker 1: What does evil look like? Do you think you could
- 0:09Speaker 1: identify it if you were looking right at it? And
- 0:12Speaker 1: even if you could, do you think you could explain it?
- 0:16Speaker 1: Could you explain what makes someone evil? Were they born
- 0:21Speaker 1: with it? Or were they made evil? Even if you
- 0:24Speaker 1: knew the answer to all these questions and you could
- 0:27Speaker 1: identify evil in a heartbeat, what would you do about it? Then?
- 0:32Speaker 1: Do you think you could stop it? Catherine Knight is
- 0:37Speaker 1: described as being pure evil. Her actions were malicious and brutal,
- 0:42Speaker 1: even against those closest to her. This is the story
- 0:48Speaker 1: of Catherine Knight. My name's Ben and.
- 0:51Speaker 2: I'm Nicole and you're listening to Wicked and Grim, a
- 0:55Speaker 2: true crime podcast.
- 0:57Speaker 1: Warning the following podcast material more mature audience listener. What
- 1:26Speaker 1: do you mean you don't have anything? That's right there?
- 1:27Speaker 1: What's that?
- 1:28Speaker 2: It's empty?
- 1:29Speaker 1: It's empty.
- 1:30Speaker 2: I drank a lead of water today.
- 1:32Speaker 1: Well, so you have a water bottle with you but
- 1:34Speaker 1: nothing to drink?
- 1:35Speaker 2: Right? Well? Yeah, I paulish it off while you were
- 1:36Speaker 2: doing your thing getting ready.
- 1:38Speaker 1: The intro gotcha, So you have no.
- 1:42Speaker 2: Today and you don't either.
- 1:43Speaker 1: I've got water because well I made Margarita's for dinner.
- 1:47Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Okay, that's why I don't feel like having any.
- 1:49Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, are we pre drank?
- 1:52Speaker 2: Okay, that's so funny here. I'm like, oh, I haven't
- 1:54Speaker 2: had a drink today, and I forgot that you had
- 1:56Speaker 2: a drink today.
- 1:58Speaker 1: You had a big old mar garita. It was fantastic,
- 2:01Speaker 1: it was delicious. Yeah. So yeah, we're back from vacation.
- 2:05Speaker 1: We had a fantastic time. Stayed in maybe a haunted hotel,
- 2:08Speaker 1: in a haunted house, who knows, only because they were
- 2:12Speaker 1: super old. That's why I have suspicions. But there was
- 2:14Speaker 1: no ghost to be found.
- 2:15Speaker 2: Just everything everywhere we stay now we think is haunted.
- 2:18Speaker 1: Apparently I kind of just I don't know. They were.
- 2:21Speaker 1: They had the vibe, you know.
- 2:22Speaker 2: But then the actual place that was haunted was the
- 2:25Speaker 2: new built maybe who knows. Maybe that we stated.
- 2:28Speaker 1: Maybe it was.
- 2:30Speaker 2: You never know.
- 2:31Speaker 1: Dun, dun, dun. Yeah, but it's good to be home.
- 2:35Speaker 1: It is good to be on track, get our things together.
- 2:38Speaker 2: It was June was very busy, so I feel like
- 2:41Speaker 2: July it's kind of just take a deep breath.
- 2:44Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, although we still got shit going on,
- 2:47Speaker 1: like yeah.
- 2:48Speaker 2: We always we always have shit going on, but not
- 2:50Speaker 2: quite as much shit, No one.
- 2:52Speaker 1: Thing that's really cool though, is we are headed down
- 2:54Speaker 1: to a local brewery on Wednesday to do a local
- 2:58Speaker 1: true crime trivia night, which.
- 2:59Speaker 2: Is all awesome and it sold out, like so cool, like.
- 3:02Speaker 1: That sold out. And we've been prepping for this for
- 3:04Speaker 1: a while. So I got some epic and I mean
- 3:08Speaker 1: epic true crime trivia questions which will probably like doing
- 3:11Speaker 1: reels and shorts and stuff. Yeah, so you guys will
- 3:13Speaker 1: be able to do that as well and take part.
- 3:16Speaker 2: And none of them, all of them are easy questions. No,
- 3:19Speaker 2: got to bring your a game to this.
- 3:21Speaker 1: There are going to be some of them that we're
- 3:22Speaker 1: going to put up there on for you guys as well,
- 3:25Speaker 1: on like reels, shorts or whatever. I do not expect
- 3:28Speaker 1: you guys to get it, because they are a little
- 3:30Speaker 1: more tailored to our local area. So we will put
- 3:34Speaker 1: those ones up there still because who knows some of
- 3:36Speaker 1: you might actually still know it.
- 3:38Speaker 2: I don't only think of one.
- 3:40Speaker 1: Well the one in particular, okay, but there was, uh
- 3:45Speaker 1: the other one with the highway.
- 3:48Speaker 2: Oh no hints here know No, I'm not getting okay, okay,
- 3:54Speaker 2: we're gonna I'm shutting you down here that's too.
- 3:57Speaker 1: Much saying highway. Yeah, okay, fair, fair.
- 4:03Speaker 2: We got to keep this a secret because some of
- 4:05Speaker 2: those people that are there might be listening to.
- 4:07Speaker 1: That that's true episode. Well, if they listen to this
- 4:10Speaker 1: episode before the trivia night and they get that clue
- 4:13Speaker 1: and do their homework on it in the meantime, props
- 4:16Speaker 1: to them for it.
- 4:17Speaker 2: Well, yeah, like that's a big old hint.
- 4:20Speaker 1: Not really for one question. Yeah, not really, because that
- 4:23Speaker 1: question can go a lot of ways.
- 4:25Speaker 2: That's true, that's true.
- 4:27Speaker 1: But we are also going to be streaming it over
- 4:29Speaker 1: on our Patreon live as well. Yeah, so that's gonna
- 4:31Speaker 1: be awesome. It's gonna be accessed accessible for anyone over
- 4:34Speaker 1: a Patreon to join live for the whole event.
- 4:37Speaker 2: And speaking of Patreon, got some to thank, don't we.
- 4:40Speaker 1: We do. So these individuals signed up for a Patreon
- 4:43Speaker 1: this week and they're going to have that behind the
- 4:45Speaker 1: scenes access, the exclusive content and access to the live
- 4:48Speaker 1: stream on Wednesday for the trivia. So the people who
- 4:51Speaker 1: joined we have Juno, Poppy, Dina Costa, Corey Stefan, Jessica Beer,
- 4:58Speaker 1: and Jessica Nice.
- 5:00Speaker 2: That's a good list of names right there, it is.
- 5:02Speaker 1: They all get that awesome access and there's some pretty
- 5:04Speaker 1: wicked people right there.
- 5:05Speaker 2: Cool, thank you, that's awesome.
- 5:07Speaker 1: So you're ready to dive into today's case.
- 5:09Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm actually a little bit worried because
- 5:12Speaker 2: you were some things were coming out of the office
- 5:16Speaker 2: today when you were like researching.
- 5:19Speaker 1: What was I doing. I didn't tell you anything.
- 5:21Speaker 2: You didn't but you were just like, whoa or shit
- 5:24Speaker 2: or whoa? That's a lot.
- 5:26Speaker 1: Well, this is a brutal case. This is the as
- 5:30Speaker 1: I already mentioned, the case of Catherine Knight, Catherine Mary Knight,
- 5:34Speaker 1: be more specific. Okay, we've had many requests to cover her.
- 5:39Speaker 1: She's been on my list to cover for a long time,
- 5:41Speaker 1: and it's it's just time to do it. And there's
- 5:43Speaker 1: a lot of details within this on the build up
- 5:46Speaker 1: side that I was really like, holy shit, didn't know
- 5:48Speaker 1: about that. Didn't know about this?
- 5:50Speaker 2: Like you, Oh, okay, so you're about to blow our monds.
- 5:54Speaker 1: I am about to blow your minds okay, And uh,
- 5:57Speaker 1: just a heads up for you guys. This is a
- 6:00Speaker 1: two parter.
- 6:01Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, you're kind Yeah.
- 6:04Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if I should tell you guys, but
- 6:06Speaker 1: it's gonna be in the title anyways, it'll say part
- 6:08Speaker 1: one unless I really want it to be mean and
- 6:10Speaker 1: just posted it.
- 6:11Speaker 2: You did do that one time, I did.
- 6:13Speaker 1: And then like next week change it to say part one,
- 6:16Speaker 1: you know, which that's really mean. I don't know.
- 6:19Speaker 2: And likes to keep you guys on your toes.
- 6:21Speaker 1: I do, but I also, like, I got a soft
- 6:23Speaker 1: spot for you, so I kind of want to, like,
- 6:25Speaker 1: you know, keep you in the know as well.
- 6:26Speaker 2: Yeah. So so you just decided to listen to your
- 6:29Speaker 2: little angel today, not.
- 6:31Speaker 1: The angel, not the devil. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Okay, Well,
- 6:36Speaker 1: let's get on with the story. Ready for it? I'm ready, okay.
- 6:40Speaker 1: Catherine Mary Knight committed such horrific crimes that she is
- 6:44Speaker 1: considered the most brutal female murderer in Australian history, if
- 6:50Speaker 1: not the most still, even if you disregard gender.
- 6:55Speaker 2: Oh wow.
- 6:56Speaker 1: Yeah. But the thing is, why is it important to
- 7:00Speaker 1: include gender in that prolific most serial killer person whatever?
- 7:04Speaker 1: Why is gender included in this case? Well? I want
- 7:08Speaker 1: to make a big note of this because it is
- 7:10Speaker 1: important that research. It's important because Reacher and sorry stumbling
- 7:16Speaker 1: here right out of the gate, it's important because Reacher
- 7:19Speaker 1: researchers if I can get that.
- 7:21Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a hard work for you.
- 7:23Speaker 1: Today, researchers show that men are three to five times
- 7:28Speaker 1: more likely to become psychopaths than women.
- 7:32Speaker 2: Really, yes, Oh I didn't know that.
- 7:35Speaker 1: Yes, So Catherine being a psychopath is considered a very
- 7:41Speaker 1: rare individual.
- 7:42Speaker 2: Really, I'm searious of why that is.
- 7:46Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 7:47Speaker 2: Interesting.
- 7:47Speaker 1: Yeah, so she is very rare because she is a
- 7:51Speaker 1: cold blooded psychopath.
- 7:53Speaker 2: A female psychopathy. Okay, wow, that's that's a that's getting
- 7:58Speaker 2: us ready here first.
- 7:59Speaker 1: Yeah, So starting off, we're going to go back into
- 8:03Speaker 1: Catherine's past. We're going to start with her growing up
- 8:05Speaker 1: and kind of get to know who she was. So
- 8:08Speaker 1: Catherine was born on October twenty fourth, nineteen fifty five,
- 8:12Speaker 1: in Tenorfield, New South Wales, Australia. Now Tennerfield is a
- 8:17Speaker 1: relatively small community today, boasting a population number of around
- 8:21Speaker 1: four thousand residents. So when Catherine was born, I'm sure
- 8:24Speaker 1: it would have been much smaller at the time. Even now,
- 8:29Speaker 1: the area was kind of like a bunch of small communities,
- 8:32Speaker 1: like side to side, like you go to one to
- 8:33Speaker 1: the next, to the next to the next sort of thing.
- 8:35Speaker 1: So it's like they're not really all that far apart.
- 8:37Speaker 1: But they're all just a bunch of small communities, towns, cities,
- 8:40Speaker 1: that sort of thing.
- 8:41Speaker 2: Okay.
- 8:42Speaker 1: Now, her mother, Barbara, Barbara Rogan, had previously been married
- 8:47Speaker 1: to another man by the name of Jack Rogan, where
- 8:51Speaker 1: she instead lived in the town of Aberdeen in New
- 8:54Speaker 1: South Wales in Hunter Valley. Now together they would conceive
- 8:58Speaker 1: four sons in two total, but Barbara would eventually run
- 9:02Speaker 1: off with another man by the name of Ken Knight.
- 9:06Speaker 1: So Ken was a co worker and a friend of Jack,
- 9:10Speaker 1: but that didn't work to Ken or Barbara.
- 9:14Speaker 2: Oh wow, Yes, that's a little bit saucy, hey, just a.
- 9:18Speaker 1: Little bit, I mean even more so because Jack was
- 9:22Speaker 1: apparently a supervisor at the place, so she went running
- 9:26Speaker 1: off with one of his workers.
- 9:29Speaker 2: Yeah, like employees or whatever.
- 9:32Speaker 1: Exactly.
- 9:33Speaker 2: Definitely don't love that, but.
- 9:35Speaker 1: No, no, I don't think anyone really would.
- 9:37Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 9:39Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean all that mattered to them was
- 9:40Speaker 1: each other and their new life. But they were going
- 9:42Speaker 1: to start together, and just like you're sitting here, oh WHOA,
- 9:46Speaker 1: A lot of the people in small town thought the
- 9:49Speaker 1: same thing.
- 9:49Speaker 2: So they were the talk of the town.
- 9:52Speaker 1: They were the talk of the town. It was a great,
- 9:53Speaker 1: big scandal. It was sweeping across Everyone was talking about it, whispering,
- 9:59Speaker 1: and there was a a lot of local backlash that
- 10:01Speaker 1: hit them hard. There were scowls, cold shoulders, and perhaps
- 10:06Speaker 1: even I'm just saying this because it's my assumption, perhaps
- 10:10Speaker 1: even threats going along with it. So Barbara and Ken
- 10:15Speaker 1: were eventually forced to move because of their relationship. Now,
- 10:20Speaker 1: initially they moved to a town called Marie, and Barbara
- 10:23Speaker 1: had to leave her four sons behind. Her two eldest
- 10:27Speaker 1: boys continued to live with their father, Jack, while the
- 10:30Speaker 1: other two younger sons were sent off to live with
- 10:32Speaker 1: their aunt in the big city of Sydney, Australia. Okay, oh,
- 10:36Speaker 1: hold on, I messed up my notes here? What did
- 10:38Speaker 1: I do? That's okay, Okay, there we go.
- 10:41Speaker 2: And how do we know why she couldn't take the sons.
- 10:45Speaker 1: I'm not too sure. I don't know if she wanted to,
- 10:47Speaker 1: or if the father wouldn't let them.
- 10:49Speaker 2: Or write, Yeah, the father might have been like, no,
- 10:51Speaker 2: you're not taking that.
- 10:52Speaker 1: I think that's kind of more so the case. I
- 10:54Speaker 1: think she just kind of left them and run off,
- 10:56Speaker 1: and yeah, the father was like, fuck you, I'm keeping
- 10:59Speaker 1: the kids sort of thing.
- 11:00Speaker 2: Yeah, jeez, well she just broke his heart.
- 11:02Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure, And especially with a whole town kind
- 11:05Speaker 1: of like scolding you, I don't think it's going to
- 11:07Speaker 1: be very easy to just like screw you. I'm going
- 11:09Speaker 1: to run away with my new man and take the kids, right. Yeah,
- 11:12Speaker 1: so I think the town was kind of on his
- 11:13Speaker 1: side and he was easily able to just keep the
- 11:15Speaker 1: kids right. The two lovebirds, though, were now out of
- 11:19Speaker 1: town and they were on their own, and they were
- 11:21Speaker 1: child free. It was time for them to have a
- 11:25Speaker 1: family of their own, so together they would have a
- 11:28Speaker 1: total of four children as well. Oh wow, two boys
- 11:32Speaker 1: and a set of twin girls, the twin girls being
- 11:35Speaker 1: born in nineteen fifty five, one of which which was
- 11:39Speaker 1: Catherine Knight.
- 11:40Speaker 2: Oh she was a twin, she was.
- 11:43Speaker 1: And Catherine was delivered just half an hour after her
- 11:45Speaker 1: sister Joy. So Barbara would eventually see more children in
- 11:51Speaker 1: her life, though now in a different way than you're
- 11:53Speaker 1: probably initially thinking. I want to clarify that when I
- 11:56Speaker 1: was writing this, I'm like, I need to snuff that
- 11:58Speaker 1: fire immediately, she didn't have more kids. It would be
- 12:02Speaker 1: nineteen fifty nine when Catherine was four years old, her mother,
- 12:07Speaker 1: Barbara's ex husband, Jack, Yeah, passed away.
- 12:11Speaker 2: Oh shit, poor Jack.
- 12:13Speaker 1: Yeah. So the two sons that were living with Jack
- 12:16Speaker 1: would then move in with Barbara Ken and their family. Okay, Yeah,
- 12:20Speaker 1: so they would then have a household filled with six children.
- 12:24Speaker 1: That's a lot of children, it is. It's a lot
- 12:26Speaker 1: of children to look after and to actually maintain a
- 12:28Speaker 1: household with that many mouths to feed, yeah, is a
- 12:32Speaker 1: lot to do.
- 12:32Speaker 2: That would be very expensive.
- 12:34Speaker 1: Yeah. So when they did move in, though, the only
- 12:37Speaker 1: problem was these two boys had no idea the type
- 12:40Speaker 1: of family they were about to move in with. The
- 12:44Speaker 1: household was extremely abusive and disfunctional.
- 12:50Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was not how their household was prior
- 12:54Speaker 2: to by the sounds of it, as.
- 12:55Speaker 1: Far as I know, it was not, but I don't know.
- 12:58Speaker 1: I don't know the history on how Jack had treated
- 13:01Speaker 1: the children.
- 13:02Speaker 2: Okay.
- 13:04Speaker 1: And because of this, though, because of this terrible household atmosphere, understandably,
- 13:09Speaker 1: Catherine was not really a confident girl at a young age,
- 13:13Speaker 1: and she did not have many friends either. It was
- 13:15Speaker 1: not easy for her to make friends, and her twin
- 13:17Speaker 1: sister was pretty well one of the only people she
- 13:21Speaker 1: really seemed to be close with, so because of how
- 13:25Speaker 1: she was being raised, though she did have an extremely
- 13:30Speaker 1: terrible temper, So perhaps she got this directly from her
- 13:34Speaker 1: father Ken, because Ken was a ruthless man and a
- 13:39Speaker 1: violent alcoholic.
- 13:43Speaker 2: Was her mom also abusive? Am I allowed to ask that?
- 13:45Speaker 1: Yet? We'll get there.
- 13:47Speaker 2: We'll get there.
- 13:47Speaker 1: We're going to touch on Ken here and then we'll
- 13:49Speaker 1: move on.
- 13:49Speaker 2: But it's just like, I'm already getting a little pissy
- 13:52Speaker 2: because this is just like setting up a psychopath. Is
- 13:57Speaker 2: that was that what you called her psychopath? Yep, it's
- 14:00Speaker 2: litteral because I mean, nine times out of ten their
- 14:03Speaker 2: child is shitty.
- 14:04Speaker 1: Yeah. Right, But that begs a question that I asked
- 14:07Speaker 1: in the very beginning, one of the many questions, actually,
- 14:10Speaker 1: can a psychopath be made? Or are they born? Yeah?
- 14:14Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know the answer to that question. Yeah,
- 14:17Speaker 2: I think they could be made. I do. Actually, Yeah,
- 14:20Speaker 2: that's my thought.
- 14:21Speaker 1: Yeah, Well we'll talk about this one and it might
- 14:24Speaker 1: swade some people one way or the other. Okay, So
- 14:28Speaker 1: what Ken did was pretty brutal. Whatever he said goes.
- 14:34Speaker 1: He ruled the rousse sort of thing. He was a
- 14:36Speaker 1: man who wouldn't shy away from striking and assaulting both
- 14:39Speaker 1: his kids and his wife.
- 14:42Speaker 2: Wow.
- 14:42Speaker 1: Now, it is also reported that he would often sexually
- 14:45Speaker 1: assault and rape Barbara multiple times a day, up to
- 14:50Speaker 1: ten times a day.
- 14:52Speaker 2: Apparently. Shit.
- 14:55Speaker 1: Yes, that alone is an absolutely horrific thing to go
- 14:59Speaker 1: through one. It's let alone many times a day, day
- 15:02Speaker 1: in day out, especially when it's by an alleged quote
- 15:07Speaker 1: loved one.
- 15:08Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's really disturbing.
- 15:12Speaker 1: That is fucked up, is what that is. Super fucked
- 15:15Speaker 1: Ken wasn't the only monster in the home, though you
- 15:19Speaker 1: were asking about Barbara, well, she was reportedly no better,
- 15:24Speaker 1: no no. For context, in Catherine's adolescent years, she confided
- 15:29Speaker 1: in her mother about a boyfriend, reportedly a boyfriend that
- 15:32Speaker 1: wanted to do a sexual act or favor that Catherine
- 15:36Speaker 1: wasn't quite ready for comfortable with at the time, and
- 15:40Speaker 1: upon hearing this, Catherine's mother, Barbara simply told her, quote,
- 15:44Speaker 1: put up with it and stop complaining.
- 15:47Speaker 2: That was the advice that she gave her daughter.
- 15:49Speaker 1: That was the advice she gave her daughter.
- 15:51Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, yeah, holy shit.
- 15:55Speaker 1: So you know, I like to play devil's advocate here,
- 15:57Speaker 1: so I'm gonna do that for a moment. Okay, put
- 15:59Speaker 1: this into content text here.
- 16:00Speaker 2: Well, we're all processing this.
- 16:02Speaker 1: Yes, that might just be how she was dealing with
- 16:05Speaker 1: her sexual abuse at home. So maybe that's the only
- 16:07Speaker 1: real advice she could she had to give it.
- 16:10Speaker 2: They could muster m yeah, but generally, like you kind
- 16:16Speaker 2: of want better for your kids, that's true, So then
- 16:19Speaker 2: you would think you would want to change it so
- 16:23Speaker 2: that they're not having like the same lifestyle as you.
- 16:26Speaker 1: Yeah, so wow, it is. Don't get me wrong, I'm
- 16:29Speaker 1: not backing her up here.
- 16:31Speaker 2: Yeah, but no, I get what you're saying.
- 16:33Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 16:33Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 16:34Speaker 1: Regardless though, whether it was her intentions that way or not,
- 16:39Speaker 1: Barbara seemed to give out abuse in the home basically
- 16:42Speaker 1: just as much as she was receiving it. She would
- 16:44Speaker 1: assault her husband, she would assault her children, both without hesitation.
- 16:49Speaker 2: Oh man, that's just I'm sorry, I'm still in this.
- 16:51Speaker 2: That's just the most terrible advice.
- 16:54Speaker 1: Yeah, it is like, just shut up and put up
- 16:57Speaker 1: with it. Stop complaining. Are you fucking kidding me?
- 17:00Speaker 2: And that's like your mom yeahow.
- 17:02Speaker 1: Okay, that's supposed to be someone that you can trust
- 17:05Speaker 1: and rely on. Yeah, And she's like, eh, shut up,
- 17:08Speaker 1: just let him do what he wants. Oh okay, yeah, no,
- 17:12Speaker 1: fucking thanks No. At times when at a time, sorry,
- 17:17Speaker 1: when Catherine was still very young. I'm so kind of
- 17:21Speaker 1: back from when that advice occurred. It just it was
- 17:23Speaker 1: a good time to actually talk about that. So backing up,
- 17:25Speaker 1: when she was still very young, Barbara would actually describe
- 17:29Speaker 1: very intimate and graphic details of her sex life and
- 17:33Speaker 1: personal sex life with of course her.
- 17:37Speaker 2: Husband, like describe it what to her kids?
- 17:41Speaker 1: Yeah, she would describe it to Catherine. She would tell
- 17:44Speaker 1: her all about these very vivid details. She would spare
- 17:49Speaker 1: no expense, and she would continue to talk about it,
- 17:52Speaker 1: and she would tell her about her hate for her
- 17:54Speaker 1: husband and how she absolutely despises men. Whoa, and this
- 18:00Speaker 1: is a very young child. She is doing this too.
- 18:03Speaker 2: This is like I'm like kind of sweating here. This
- 18:06Speaker 2: is really like uncomfortable. Yeah, this is uncomfortable. Shit.
- 18:10Speaker 1: Oh yeah, now you know why I was having those
- 18:13Speaker 1: reactions in the office.
- 18:15Speaker 2: My gosh. Okay.
- 18:18Speaker 1: All the details of what occurred inside the broken home
- 18:21Speaker 1: will never really be known because by the sounds of it,
- 18:24Speaker 1: a lot happened in those walls, and some claims are contested,
- 18:30Speaker 1: but many details have come forward and are corroborated by
- 18:34Speaker 1: some of the siblings who lived in the home as well.
- 18:36Speaker 2: Well. Remember how at one point I was like, poor Jack. Well,
- 18:39Speaker 2: I mean poor Jack because he died. But maybe he
- 18:41Speaker 2: actually like dodged a bullet by having her leave.
- 18:45Speaker 1: Maybe, but she's horrid, but unfortunately he left his children.
- 18:50Speaker 2: Oh, and then had to go back to her. Oh,
- 18:54Speaker 2: I wonder why they couldn't go to that other family member.
- 18:56Speaker 2: Come on, yeah, brutal.
- 19:00Speaker 1: Where am I at here?
- 19:01Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm making you get distracted here by it.
- 19:05Speaker 1: Oh no, it's all good. I'm actually like looking at
- 19:06Speaker 1: the notes of my phone here, and I usually don't,
- 19:08Speaker 1: so I'm like kind of out of my element looking
- 19:11Speaker 1: at these notes. Yeah, oh okay, here, I got it.
- 19:14Speaker 1: So one detail that Catherine would speak on about some
- 19:17Speaker 1: of the stuff that she endured as a young child,
- 19:20Speaker 1: and is generally accepted by psychiatrists, is the fact that
- 19:23Speaker 1: she was sexually assaulted and abused by many of her
- 19:29Speaker 1: family members.
- 19:30Speaker 2: Many of her family members, yes.
- 19:32Speaker 1: Though thankfully at least not at the hand of her father.
- 19:38Speaker 1: The smallest of silver linings, but at least that's there geez.
- 19:43Speaker 1: So okay, Yeah, it's not easy for anyone to live
- 19:47Speaker 1: in a house like that, let alone like a child
- 19:49Speaker 1: growing up in that environment. I can't begin to fathom
- 19:54Speaker 1: what that life would have been like.
- 19:56Speaker 2: And it's unfortunate because it's like a reality for.
- 19:59Speaker 1: Some people, reality for a lot of people.
- 20:01Speaker 2: Yeafe like, which is beyond sad.
- 20:05Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean beyond set. Like I don't know, it
- 20:08Speaker 1: feels like that's not a heavy enough word to say,
- 20:11Speaker 1: but that's that's that nails it though. It is beyond sad.
- 20:15Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Like it's like you're helpless, Like it's you
- 20:19Speaker 2: wish that you could help all of the people out
- 20:22Speaker 2: there and stuff, but she just can't. Really.
- 20:24Speaker 1: Yeah, you're either helpless or you're hopeless. And that is
- 20:31Speaker 1: so sad to say.
- 20:32Speaker 2: Oh boy, then we're real grim here today.
- 20:36Speaker 1: Yeah apparently. Wow. Okay. Anyways, as I already mentioned, though,
- 20:40Speaker 1: Catherine didn't have many many friends, right okay, and she
- 20:44Speaker 1: didn't make them very easily either. So Aside from her sister,
- 20:47Speaker 1: she was also rather close with her uncle Oscar. But however,
- 20:52Speaker 1: it would hit her hard when he ended his own
- 20:55Speaker 1: life in nineteen sixty nine when Catherine was just thirteen
- 20:58Speaker 1: years old.
- 21:00Speaker 2: I thought that was going to go a different way,
- 21:01Speaker 2: but Okay, no.
- 21:02Speaker 1: No, thankfully, yeah yeah. So to this day, though, however,
- 21:07Speaker 1: Catherine continues to claim that his ghost still visits her
- 21:10Speaker 1: at times.
- 21:11Speaker 2: Oh really yes.
- 21:14Speaker 1: So the same year he passed away, the family would
- 21:17Speaker 1: move to another small town called Aberdeen. Here is where
- 21:21Speaker 1: Catherine began attending high school. Okay, so her mannerisms will
- 21:26Speaker 1: continue here as she was, you know, an outcast and
- 21:30Speaker 1: a loner. Though because of her situation growing up, Catherine
- 21:34Speaker 1: seemed to develop much of a different much different than
- 21:36Speaker 1: normal children would have, and she would have grown up
- 21:39Speaker 1: in constant fear for her physical and physical wellbeing and
- 21:43Speaker 1: the potential sexual abuse. And because of such an extreme atmosphere,
- 21:47Speaker 1: psychologists believed she would have begun to basically disassociate from
- 21:51Speaker 1: the world around her. Basically like any sort of overwhelming
- 21:55Speaker 1: times when she didn't know how to deal with things
- 21:56Speaker 1: or cope, she would just go into this disassociation mode.
- 22:00Speaker 2: Okay, that makes sense.
- 22:02Speaker 1: And this would basically just yeah, be here coping mechanism,
- 22:04Speaker 1: and in turn, it left her developing her extreme temper
- 22:07Speaker 1: and lack of love because at those overwhelming times she
- 22:11Speaker 1: would just disassociate.
- 22:13Speaker 2: Huh what I imagine She also wasn't really ever shown
- 22:16Speaker 2: love either.
- 22:17Speaker 1: No, I can't imagine so much.
- 22:19Speaker 2: No, it was a loving household of any in any way.
- 22:21Speaker 1: Yeah, and because of all this personality sort of stuff
- 22:25Speaker 1: that was going on with her when she was in
- 22:27Speaker 1: high school, basically it would turn and make her become
- 22:32Speaker 1: into a bully in school.
- 22:34Speaker 2: Oh really, Yes, So.
- 22:36Speaker 1: Reportedly she seemed to target boys more than any other
- 22:40Speaker 1: though she really didn't seem to discriminate. It was just
- 22:43Speaker 1: kind of more her general target whether she flowed to
- 22:46Speaker 1: so she would get angry over benign things, and it
- 22:49Speaker 1: seemed like she would just assault at least one boy
- 22:52Speaker 1: per day at her school per day.
- 22:55Speaker 2: But that makes sense because of how her mom had
- 22:58Speaker 2: like the hatred of yeah and your boys or whatever. Right.
- 23:02Speaker 1: Definitely, it seemed like she just hated everybody, but she
- 23:05Speaker 1: specifically hated boys. It seemed like, Okay, a lot of
- 23:09Speaker 1: times she was actually trying to assault them with any
- 23:12Speaker 1: sort of makeshift weapons she could find, like maybe a
- 23:15Speaker 1: book in the classroom or something like that. She would
- 23:17Speaker 1: just like take something and like throw it at them,
- 23:20Speaker 1: hit them whatever she could. A classmate of hers would
- 23:23Speaker 1: actually report at a time when Catherine and her twin
- 23:26Speaker 1: sister joy were arguing over a bike, so like, whose
- 23:31Speaker 1: turn is it to ride the bike home? Okay, So
- 23:33Speaker 1: generally when you think of two like thirteen fourteen year
- 23:37Speaker 1: old girls arguing over something, but what do you see
- 23:40Speaker 1: them doing as far as an argument? How far do
- 23:43Speaker 1: you think this would go? Generally speaking?
- 23:45Speaker 2: Not there, man, Well, not these two. I don't know.
- 23:49Speaker 2: I feel like there'd probably be like some tears and
- 23:52Speaker 2: some yelling and someone storming off. Yeah, fair enough, it's
- 23:58Speaker 2: kind of how I think it would go.
- 23:59Speaker 1: Maybe normal, maybe a push or a shove something like that.
- 24:02Speaker 2: I don't even know if I would see that necessarily.
- 24:04Speaker 1: Okay, but like if it got physical, maybe a push
- 24:06Speaker 1: or a shove will probably be as far as it goes, right, Well,
- 24:10Speaker 1: these two girls, that was not the case. Far from it.
- 24:14Speaker 1: They baled their fists up and they began to full
- 24:17Speaker 1: out fist fight each other, punching each other as hard
- 24:21Speaker 1: as they could while rolling on the ground. And that
- 24:23Speaker 1: was just normal for them.
- 24:25Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Yeah, that was literally how they would
- 24:30Speaker 2: just get through an argument.
- 24:31Speaker 1: Yeah, they just beat the absolute shit out of each.
- 24:34Speaker 2: Other, Oh my gosh.
- 24:37Speaker 1: Because that's how they dealt with it.
- 24:39Speaker 2: Huh wow, right there, is just like a very descriptive
- 24:46Speaker 2: of their childhood and stuff like it really is. It
- 24:49Speaker 2: really paints a picture there.
- 24:51Speaker 1: Huh yeah, yeah, sorry. Another story would tell about Catherine
- 24:59Speaker 1: how she would actually injure be injured sorry, by a
- 25:02Speaker 1: teacher on the school grounds.
- 25:04Speaker 2: The teacher injured her, or she injured a teacher.
- 25:06Speaker 1: The teacher injured her, okay, and after kind of questions
- 25:09Speaker 1: about it, they figured out that the teacher actually did
- 25:13Speaker 1: it in self defense, oh my gosh, against Catherine.
- 25:17Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Everyone was probably just like praying that this
- 25:22Speaker 2: and none of these kids were in like their class,
- 25:25Speaker 2: or that they didn't end up having them in their class.
- 25:27Speaker 1: Kay, oh definitely. Now, However, this wasn't Catherine's general normal behavior.
- 25:34Speaker 1: She was a well behaved kid. She was kind of quiet,
- 25:37Speaker 1: she was kind of reserved and shy. She would just
- 25:40Speaker 1: snap at times out of nowhere. Okay, she would be
- 25:44Speaker 1: actually rewarded for good behavior from the teacher quite a bit.
- 25:47Speaker 1: Like she wasn't a very good student like academic wise,
- 25:50Speaker 1: but her behavior generally was good. But something would just
- 25:54Speaker 1: set her off and she would fly off the fucking handlebars.
- 25:58Speaker 2: Really, so it was just a switch almost.
- 26:00Speaker 1: Her brain exactly which again comes to that whole disassociation thing.
- 26:06Speaker 1: Catherine will be fifteen though when she did drop out
- 26:09Speaker 1: of high school. She was nearly illiterate at the time
- 26:12Speaker 1: that she left. But despite not having any sort of
- 26:15Speaker 1: like illiterate literal literary skills or any sort of qualifications really,
- 26:19Speaker 1: she was able, able bodied, and managed to get a
- 26:22Speaker 1: job at a clothing factory cutting fabrics pretty much right away.
- 26:25Speaker 2: Okay, well, that's good she was able to get a job. Yeah,
- 26:28Speaker 2: it sucks that she had to drop out of.
- 26:30Speaker 1: School, though, I agree, But I mean we are talking
- 26:34Speaker 1: in the seventies though, Yeah, so it was kind of
- 26:36Speaker 1: like a lot of people dropped out of school. It
- 26:38Speaker 1: wasn't it was abnormal to graduate grade twelve, you know.
- 26:42Speaker 1: It would be a year later, though, twelve months when
- 26:44Speaker 1: Catherine obtained what she describes as her quote dream job,
- 26:50Speaker 1: which was working at the local arbiter. I think I
- 26:53Speaker 1: said that, right, and another word for an arbitoire.
- 26:56Speaker 2: That's what Okay, I was like, I have no idea
- 26:58Speaker 2: what that is even.
- 26:59Speaker 1: Arbuitoire is how they say and another word for an arbitoire.
- 27:02Speaker 1: And this is how I'm gonna be referring to it
- 27:03Speaker 1: from here and out is a slaughterhouse.
- 27:07Speaker 2: Oh and that was her dream job.
- 27:09Speaker 1: Hey, that was her dream job. Now there's two parts
- 27:12Speaker 1: to this. Devil's advocate here, Okay, okay, So being a
- 27:16Speaker 1: butcher is by no means a red flag No, in
- 27:18Speaker 1: my opinion, No, it's not. It's a legit job. I've
- 27:22Speaker 1: done some butchering before. It's bloody, sure, it's kind of gross. Sure, violent,
- 27:26Speaker 1: not by any means.
- 27:27Speaker 2: If you describe it kind of as like a butcher
- 27:30Speaker 2: like that, it doesn't sound as bad as like her
- 27:32Speaker 2: dream jobs working in a slaughterhouse. Yeah.
- 27:35Speaker 1: Well yeah, but I mean, like if you go to
- 27:36Speaker 1: like many supermarkets or delis, you have a guy behind
- 27:40Speaker 1: the counter cutting up meat.
- 27:41Speaker 2: Yeah, and I would definitely not like be alarmed.
- 27:42Speaker 1: By that person exactly. So like most people who do
- 27:45Speaker 1: this job, they're not violent. It's not creepy as fuck.
- 27:49Speaker 1: A lot of people do it.
- 27:50Speaker 2: It's actually an awesome skill to have.
- 27:52Speaker 1: It really is. Yeah. Now, second piece to this, Catherine
- 27:57Speaker 1: did have a reason for this being her dream job
- 27:59Speaker 1: or why she wanted to work in this slaughterhouse. Much
- 28:04Speaker 1: of the surrounding area in these small towns depended on this.
- 28:07Speaker 1: This was the industry, the cow farming was huge. Many
- 28:12Speaker 1: people she knew worked at this place, the slaughterhouse. Her
- 28:14Speaker 1: father worked there, her brothers worked there. It was a
- 28:17Speaker 1: place to go get a good paying job for many
- 28:20Speaker 1: people in the area.
- 28:21Speaker 2: Okay, that makes sense then.
- 28:23Speaker 1: Like for us here in northern BC, forestry is the
- 28:26Speaker 1: main thing that drives you know, the economy.
- 28:29Speaker 2: Yeah, like you're working in a sawmill or planer or
- 28:31Speaker 2: palt mill or.
- 28:32Speaker 1: Exactly, it's just normal around here. Yeah, and that's kind
- 28:35Speaker 1: of what it was for Catherine. It was just normal.
- 28:38Speaker 2: Okay. Describing that makes it's not like as alarming to me.
- 28:42Speaker 1: No, I mean, in hindsight, it's like, okay, maybe there
- 28:44Speaker 1: are some some red flags there a little bit, but
- 28:46Speaker 1: it's not a red flag for just a normal person
- 28:48Speaker 1: to work there, you know, right. Yeah, So Catherine started
- 28:52Speaker 1: working here. She started working at the bottom of the
- 28:54Speaker 1: ranks in the workforce, cutting up scrap meats and organ meats,
- 28:57Speaker 1: that sort of thing. But she would quickly move up
- 29:00Speaker 1: and she would be promoted to boning, where she would basically,
- 29:04Speaker 1: with precision, remove the meat from the bones of the beef.
- 29:09Speaker 1: And it was reported that they did approximately five hundred
- 29:12Speaker 1: or six hundred beef per.
- 29:14Speaker 2: Day, like like cows.
- 29:16Speaker 1: Yes, holy heck, which is a lot? That is so much? Yeah,
- 29:19Speaker 1: so it's like it's a big factory, right, it's not
- 29:22Speaker 1: a small little place. Like a lot of people worked here,
- 29:25Speaker 1: A lot of people in these surrounding towns came here,
- 29:27Speaker 1: did this sort of thing. It was just it was
- 29:30Speaker 1: what drove their economy. It was her industry.
- 29:32Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 29:33Speaker 1: So along with this position, though, Catherine also got her
- 29:36Speaker 1: own set of butcher's knives for her job. So having
- 29:40Speaker 1: her own set of these knives manes that you are
- 29:42Speaker 1: basically looking after them. You're caring for them and suring
- 29:45Speaker 1: they're sharp, ready for work, ready for your shift and everything, right.
- 29:49Speaker 1: And Catherine was elated with this and took pride in
- 29:52Speaker 1: her knives so much so that they were her most
- 29:56Speaker 1: prized possession.
- 29:58Speaker 2: Okay, but is it kind of like they earned their
- 30:01Speaker 2: knife their knives kind of Oh yeah, definitely. Okay, so
- 30:04Speaker 2: that makes it. That makes some sense.
- 30:06Speaker 1: It does make some sense. But what doesn't really make
- 30:08Speaker 1: a whole lot of sense is that at home she
- 30:11Speaker 1: even hung her knives above her bed so they would
- 30:14Speaker 1: quote would always be handy if I needed them. Oh shit,
- 30:20Speaker 1: that's a little bit of a red flag there.
- 30:22Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's a little bit next level yeap, unnecessary yep, yeah, okay.
- 30:28Speaker 1: So that's a bit crazy, I'm out sort of thing.
- 30:31Speaker 2: I mean, but sometimes people will have a weapon of
- 30:35Speaker 2: sorts by their bed.
- 30:36Speaker 1: That's true in case.
- 30:38Speaker 2: Yeah, but if.
- 30:39Speaker 1: You're if it's like your most prized possession that you
- 30:42Speaker 1: take from work and you hang above your like, I
- 30:44Speaker 1: don't know, it just seems a little bit too attached.
- 30:46Speaker 2: It's a bit weird, it's a bit odd.
- 30:48Speaker 1: Yes, And this is a habit she would reportedly continue
- 30:52Speaker 1: everywhere she lived until her eventual arrest and incarceration.
- 30:57Speaker 2: Oh okay, and I'm imagining she probably got some good
- 31:00Speaker 2: use of these knives.
- 31:02Speaker 1: Well, I mean she worked with them every day outside
- 31:05Speaker 1: of work. Yeah, I know what you were aunt saying.
- 31:10Speaker 1: So while Catherine was working happily at her job, she
- 31:13Speaker 1: began to spend a lot of time, like you know,
- 31:15Speaker 1: away from work. You know, you've got to go somewhere
- 31:17Speaker 1: when you're not in shift, right, with a new guy
- 31:20Speaker 1: that she met in nineteen seventy three. So this man
- 31:24Speaker 1: was a coworker of hers, and his name was David
- 31:28Speaker 1: Stanford Kellet. So David unfortunately was a very heavy drinker.
- 31:35Speaker 2: Okay, Oh, so probably gave her like reminded her of
- 31:39Speaker 2: her father maybe thinking, Okay.
- 31:41Speaker 1: Very possible. And I do want to say, like, and
- 31:45Speaker 1: those substance abuses never justified, Like, I mean, there's reasons
- 31:51Speaker 1: that make it like more understandable, right, But it's like
- 31:54Speaker 1: substance abuse is not like, don't do that. But he
- 31:58Speaker 1: at least did have somewhat of a good reason for
- 32:00Speaker 1: his substance abuse. He was likely suffering. And this is
- 32:04Speaker 1: my diagnosis here from PTSD as he was involved in
- 32:08Speaker 1: two very traumatic work incidents previously on another job. Okay,
- 32:15Speaker 1: so he was working at Coff's Harbor on the railway
- 32:19Speaker 1: when in one incident, his friend was killed in front
- 32:22Speaker 1: of him, as during a train shunting incident. So train
- 32:27Speaker 1: shunting is basically like shifting the cars back and forth
- 32:30Speaker 1: on hooking hooking up.
- 32:32Speaker 2: That would be hard to witness, I mean friend or not.
- 32:35Speaker 1: Gosh, yeah, definitely. And I don't know the details on
- 32:40Speaker 1: how the accident occurred, what exactly happened to the friend,
- 32:44Speaker 1: but a lot of these sort of incidents during this
- 32:46Speaker 1: is usually between two cars.
- 32:49Speaker 2: Yeah, like it wouldn't have been pretty no.
- 32:53Speaker 1: And the second one was he reportedly rescued injured individuals
- 32:58Speaker 1: from a school bus. Injured children from a school bus
- 33:02Speaker 1: that had been struck by a train.
- 33:04Speaker 2: Oh wow.
- 33:06Speaker 1: In the incident, six children reportedly lost their lives.
- 33:10Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. So he had like some super trauma
- 33:13Speaker 2: that he was dealing with. Yes, and then back then,
- 33:16Speaker 2: who knows if, like if the help that he needed
- 33:20Speaker 2: was even readily available, right?
- 33:22Speaker 1: Oh no, I highly doubt it was available. Yeah, so
- 33:25Speaker 1: he was carrying some shit and his shoulders. Like I mentioned,
- 33:28Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure saying he had PTSD is kind of
- 33:32Speaker 1: spot on with that assessment.
- 33:34Speaker 2: Yeah, but then that wouldn't have probably even been like
- 33:37Speaker 2: a thing that they well back then, would they still
- 33:40Speaker 2: thought had like the diagnosis.
- 33:43Speaker 1: I think they would have, like in the seventhies of.
- 33:45Speaker 2: War and stuff.
- 33:46Speaker 1: Probably, yeah, yeah, they would have, but I don't think
- 33:48Speaker 1: it would have been as commonly recognized. So it's hard
- 33:52Speaker 1: to say with him, though, he did eventually lose his
- 33:55Speaker 1: job though due to a parent deteriorating behaviors and performances
- 33:59Speaker 1: at work.
- 34:00Speaker 2: He was probably drinking at.
- 34:01Speaker 1: Work, yeah, perhaps trying to deal with the trauma, that's
- 34:06Speaker 1: all wrapped up in his head, and from there he
- 34:09Speaker 1: would go on to get his job at the Slaughterhouse,
- 34:11Speaker 1: where he would meet Katherine. Okay, so his drinking may
- 34:17Speaker 1: have started as a coping mechanism, but he had turned
- 34:20Speaker 1: into a loud, obnoxious, party type alcoholic who was always
- 34:25Speaker 1: getting out of control. He was just the man for
- 34:29Speaker 1: Catherine really, as her drinking was starting to escalate. Though
- 34:31Speaker 1: she wasn't really as much of an alcoholic from my readings,
- 34:35Speaker 1: but he was a heavy, heavy drinker.
- 34:38Speaker 2: Okay.
- 34:40Speaker 1: So David would soon learn that Catherine was much more
- 34:44Speaker 1: than he bargained for.
- 34:46Speaker 2: That's probably the nicest way you could put that.
- 34:49Speaker 1: Hey, yeah, that's yeah, I think so.
- 34:52Speaker 2: Oh gosh.
- 34:54Speaker 1: So after David popped the big question proposing to her,
- 34:58Speaker 1: the couple would get married married in nineteen seventy four.
- 35:02Speaker 2: Oh shit, so he even married her.
- 35:04Speaker 1: He definitely got married to her.
- 35:06Speaker 2: Okay.
- 35:07Speaker 1: So, at Catherine's request, they would arrive to their ceremony
- 35:11Speaker 1: on Catherine's motorcycle, with her driving and David on the
- 35:16Speaker 1: back holding onto her. Now it was quite the sight,
- 35:19Speaker 1: as Catherine actually as much taller than David is He's
- 35:22Speaker 1: a rather short individual, and Catherine's quite tall, and David
- 35:27Speaker 1: was clearly very intoxicated.
- 35:31Speaker 2: Which is actually illegal, is it not. Oh yeah, yeah,
- 35:34Speaker 2: Like you can't be signing those kind of documents when
- 35:38Speaker 2: you're intoxicated.
- 35:38Speaker 1: Oh, I thought you meant like riding on the back
- 35:40Speaker 1: of a motorcycle.
- 35:41Speaker 2: Oh that.
- 35:43Speaker 1: Too, I guess, yes, yeah, okay, both those things. So
- 35:49Speaker 1: when they arrived at their wedding, the moment they arrived
- 35:51Speaker 1: at the ceremony, before they could even walk down the aisle,
- 35:55Speaker 1: Catherine's mother, Barbara, pulled David aside for some motherly advice.
- 36:00Speaker 2: Oh I'm intrigued to see what the fuck this advice was.
- 36:03Speaker 1: Well, this was coming from David, So, remembering back to
- 36:06Speaker 1: what she had told him, David said this quote. The
- 36:12Speaker 1: old girl said to me, watch out. You better watch
- 36:15Speaker 1: this one or she'll fucking kill you. Stir her up
- 36:18Speaker 1: the wrong way or do the wrong thing, and you're fucked.
- 36:22Speaker 1: Don't ever think of playing up on her. She'll fucking
- 36:25Speaker 1: kill you. And that was her mother talking. She told
- 36:29Speaker 1: me she's got something loose, she's got a screw loose somewhere.
- 36:34Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I'm surprised that you didn't run for
- 36:37Speaker 2: the goddamn hills.
- 36:38Speaker 1: No shit.
- 36:39Speaker 2: Could you imagine if, like you're the person you're marrying
- 36:43Speaker 2: their parents said that to you right before you're about
- 36:46Speaker 2: to like walk down the aisle, would you not question
- 36:48Speaker 2: like what you're doing?
- 36:49Speaker 1: I mean maybe for sure, but I mean, like David
- 36:53Speaker 1: kind of brushes off. I'm sure he's heard stories of
- 36:55Speaker 1: Catherine's mother, Catherine growing up, the shit she said to her,
- 37:00Speaker 1: how she was treated.
- 37:01Speaker 2: So she probably He probably just thought she was crazy
- 37:04Speaker 2: or kind of had a screw loose or whatever she
- 37:07Speaker 2: said about Catherine.
- 37:08Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's thinking, yeah, Catherine's a crazy one. Sure,
- 37:12Speaker 1: Like you know, he's probably thinking, Barbara, you're the one
- 37:14Speaker 1: who's got a screw loose.
- 37:15Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 37:17Speaker 1: So yeah, he didn't. He didn't listen to her.
- 37:20Speaker 2: Huh.
- 37:20Speaker 1: He didn't take her advice.
- 37:22Speaker 2: That's terrifying though, gosh, okay, yeah.
- 37:27Speaker 1: So he didn't take the words to heart. They walked
- 37:29Speaker 1: down the aisle and they said the I dos, and
- 37:32Speaker 1: this was supposed to be the happiest day of their life.
- 37:36Speaker 1: But things would take a very dark turn that very
- 37:40Speaker 1: same night.
- 37:41Speaker 2: Are you about to end this episode?
- 37:44Speaker 1: No? Not yet?
- 37:44Speaker 2: Okay. I was like, you better not not yet. I
- 37:48Speaker 2: was already glaring at you.
- 37:49Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, we good. Don't worry.
- 37:52Speaker 1: Don't worry.
- 37:53Speaker 2: Next paragraph.
- 37:56Speaker 1: David would wake up after falling asleep on their wedding
- 38:00Speaker 1: night with Catherine straddling him and her hands wrapped around
- 38:04Speaker 1: his throats, attempting to strangle him on.
- 38:08Speaker 2: Their fucking wedding night, on.
- 38:10Speaker 1: Their fucking wedding night. What the actual Yeah? Okay, so
- 38:16Speaker 1: it's not exactly clear how David managed to wrestle himself free,
- 38:21Speaker 1: but luckily for him, he was able to save himself
- 38:23Speaker 1: for the situation and he made it through this assault,
- 38:26Speaker 1: this attack. But Catherine would tell him she was furious
- 38:30Speaker 1: with him because they only had sex three times that night.
- 38:34Speaker 2: Oh wow, yes, okay, and because that's honestly where I
- 38:38Speaker 2: thought you were going. I was like, oh, there's like
- 38:39Speaker 2: she's straddling him. Okay, wow, you're really telling less about
- 38:43Speaker 2: their wedding night. Eh.
- 38:44Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I am, I very much, so am.
- 38:46Speaker 2: But I thought in like a good way, Like I
- 38:47Speaker 2: thought it was a good way at first, but okay,
- 38:50Speaker 2: three she was upset.
- 38:52Speaker 1: She was upset it was only three times, and she's
- 38:55Speaker 1: she was pissed. Do you know why? Because apparently her
- 38:58Speaker 1: mom was so vocal about her sex life and her
- 39:01Speaker 1: experiences that Catherine knew her parents had sex five times
- 39:05Speaker 1: on the night that she got married, so Catherine assumed
- 39:08Speaker 1: they needed to do the same thing, thinking that was
- 39:11Speaker 1: just normal and what was expected.
- 39:14Speaker 2: Geez. Yeah, Oh, I don't even know what to say.
- 39:19Speaker 2: That's just like.
- 39:22Speaker 1: A lot.
- 39:23Speaker 2: Yeah. Interesting, and her like her mum was probably just
- 39:27Speaker 2: like spelling shit.
- 39:28Speaker 1: Probably she's probably just bullshitting.
- 39:31Speaker 2: But exaggerating, like being Yeah.
- 39:33Speaker 1: Also, if her husband did have a libido to sexually
- 39:36Speaker 1: assault her up to ten times a day, that might
- 39:39Speaker 1: not be surprising, I guess, But I mean that is
- 39:41Speaker 1: a lot though, Like that is a lot, Yeah, like
- 39:45Speaker 1: a lot.
- 39:46Speaker 2: Could you imagine waking up and someone just pissed because
- 39:50Speaker 2: you only had sex with them three times that night?
- 39:52Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. I think I would actually probably not
- 39:57Speaker 2: be able to contain myself my laughter there.
- 40:00Speaker 1: If they're strangling you, maybe not.
- 40:03Speaker 2: Oh, and then I'd try to probably look into an
- 40:06Speaker 2: annulment of sort.
- 40:07Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. I mean, needless to say, this was
- 40:11Speaker 1: quite the wedding night for these two, and basically this
- 40:16Speaker 1: night would paint the way for what their marriage would
- 40:18Speaker 1: look like in the coming years, with violence and with
- 40:21Speaker 1: fits of rage. So by the age of twenty though,
- 40:25Speaker 1: Catherine would now be pregnant and the couple would be
- 40:28Speaker 1: expecting their first child. So, on one occasion during her pregnancy,
- 40:32Speaker 1: Catherine decided to take all of her husband's close and
- 40:36Speaker 1: his shoes, throw them into a pile, and light them
- 40:39Speaker 1: on fire. Okay, why Well, during this commotion, she would
- 40:44Speaker 1: then pick up a frying pen turn it on her husband.
- 40:47Speaker 1: She raised it in the air and struck him hard
- 40:51Speaker 1: on the back of the head.
- 40:52Speaker 2: Holy shit.
- 40:54Speaker 1: So she did all this because she suspected him of
- 40:57Speaker 1: not being loyal in the relationship.
- 40:59Speaker 2: Ok well, that's kind of fair.
- 41:01Speaker 1: I mean, you shouldn't light his clothes on fire and
- 41:04Speaker 1: strike him on the backhead with a fire frying pan, But.
- 41:06Speaker 2: You would have to be certain.
- 41:09Speaker 1: Even if you're certain, you shouldn't.
- 41:11Speaker 2: Do that, right, Yeah, you shouldn't do that.
- 41:14Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, carry on, whoa gotcha? Never cheat on Nicole?
- 41:24Speaker 1: Holy shit. Anyways, she did all this because she expected
- 41:29Speaker 1: him of cheating, basically because he had returned home late
- 41:33Speaker 1: one evening from a game of from a dark tournament
- 41:36Speaker 1: where he had made it into the finals. So, I mean,
- 41:39Speaker 1: he's out there playing darts. He's making it into deeper
- 41:41Speaker 1: and deeper in tournaments. He's taken longer longer, So yeah,
- 41:43Speaker 1: I get it.
- 41:44Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 41:44Speaker 1: Now, in later years, David did admit to actually cheating
- 41:47Speaker 1: on his wife and her suspicions were true.
- 41:50Speaker 2: Holy shit.
- 41:51Speaker 1: Ye okay, So a friend of David's would actually talk
- 41:53Speaker 1: about this in an interview about how David confided in this,
- 41:56Speaker 1: basically saying, yeah, he was young, he was dumb, he
- 41:58Speaker 1: was doing shit he shouldn't have been doing. But it
- 42:01Speaker 1: was also he was not happy at home.
- 42:04Speaker 2: Well yeah, yeah, like it was almost probably he never
- 42:07Speaker 2: knew what the hell he was going home to.
- 42:09Speaker 1: Yeah, there was just violence and again like she would
- 42:14Speaker 1: be happy then all of a sudden something would change
- 42:17Speaker 1: and she would snap.
- 42:18Speaker 2: Yeah, and she could even be making up shit two
- 42:21Speaker 2: in her head right, exactly full.
- 42:23Speaker 1: So regardless though, after being struck with a frying pan
- 42:26Speaker 1: in the back of the head, David was days and
- 42:28Speaker 1: in fear of his life, so he ran outside to
- 42:31Speaker 1: the neighbor's house, where he would collapse in their home.
- 42:34Speaker 1: Cops were called, and via Catherine's convincing, he didn't press
- 42:39Speaker 1: any charges, but he did get taken to the hospital
- 42:43Speaker 1: where he was treated for a severe skull fracture. Wow,
- 42:48Speaker 1: she struck him that hard.
- 42:49Speaker 2: That's pretty hard, yes, huh.
- 42:53Speaker 1: On May eleventh, nineteen seventy six, Catherine would give birth
- 42:57Speaker 1: to their daughter, daughter Melissa Anne. The same month, May
- 43:04Speaker 1: of nineteen seventy six, David would leave Catherine for another woman.
- 43:08Speaker 1: Oh really, yes, and the two would move to Queensland.
- 43:12Speaker 1: So soon after, Catherine would commit an absolutely atrocious crime,
- 43:18Speaker 1: and I mean atrocious one that even criminals will try
- 43:23Speaker 1: to kill you for when you're in prison. She attempted
- 43:27Speaker 1: to kill her own newborn daughter.
- 43:30Speaker 2: In spite of him leaving. Hey, ess basically or maybe not.
- 43:35Speaker 1: Well, we'll get into this here.
- 43:37Speaker 2: Oh man.
- 43:38Speaker 1: So Catherine was seen walking down the street with her
- 43:41Speaker 1: daughter in the stroller and reportedly violently swerving it. And
- 43:46Speaker 1: I do want to say violently is the word used
- 43:48Speaker 1: to describe this violently swerving it from side to side.
- 43:52Speaker 1: She was screaming and yelling in fits of rage as
- 43:55Speaker 1: she walked with the stroller. Onlookers were deathly afraid that
- 43:59Speaker 1: she was actually to push the stroller into oncoming traffic. Thankfully,
- 44:05Speaker 1: before anything like that happened, she was taken into custody.
- 44:08Speaker 1: And admitted into Saint Elmo's Hospital, where she was diagnosed
- 44:12Speaker 1: with postnatal depression.
- 44:16Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, okay, so.
- 44:18Speaker 1: She was being treated for depression and she spent several
- 44:21Speaker 1: weeks recovering before being released. Upon her release, however, she
- 44:27Speaker 1: took her now two month old daughter to the nearby
- 44:30Speaker 1: railway tracks and placed her daughter on the railway line
- 44:34Speaker 1: where a train was due to come soon, and she
- 44:37Speaker 1: left her there.
- 44:39Speaker 2: Oh my fuck, seriously, yes, why? Holy shit?
- 44:47Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, So, thankfully, unbeknownst to Catherine, a local homeless
- 44:53Speaker 1: man was in the area, a man by the name
- 44:55Speaker 1: of Old Ted, and he saw this, and he walked
- 44:59Speaker 1: up and found oun Melissa laying on the track. Yeah,
- 45:04Speaker 1: laying on the track.
- 45:05Speaker 2: Jeez.
- 45:07Speaker 1: So Melissa was thankfully saved, and only by a few minutes.
- 45:14Speaker 1: Oh my god, because it was not long after the
- 45:17Speaker 1: train came streaming, screaming down the tracks. If it wasn't
- 45:20Speaker 1: for Old Ted, she would know Old Ted have survived.
- 45:24Speaker 2: And please tell me that she never went back with
- 45:27Speaker 2: her mom. Okay she did. Wow, Holy shit.
- 45:34Speaker 1: I'm just going to hold onto this here.
- 45:36Speaker 2: Well.
- 45:36Speaker 1: Old Ted reported the incident to authorities, and it didn't
- 45:39Speaker 1: take long for them to identify little Melissa because Melissa's mom, Catherine,
- 45:45Speaker 1: had gone into town, stolen an axe out of someone's backyard,
- 45:49Speaker 1: and was wielding it around her head, threatening to kill people. Understandably,
- 45:56Speaker 1: she was quickly arrested and readmitted into Saint Elmo's Hospital.
- 46:00Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's actually amazing that she got released.
- 46:05Speaker 1: Yeah. What's even more amazing is she was released again
- 46:09Speaker 1: that very same day.
- 46:10Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Okay, that is actually yeah, yeah.
- 46:13Speaker 1: Because she miraculously recovered and signed herself out.
- 46:17Speaker 2: There's no way she should have been in there for
- 46:19Speaker 2: a while, like getting some help.
- 46:21Speaker 1: Yeah, most definitely. So in hindsight, it's clear to us
- 46:25Speaker 1: that Catherine is not fit to, i mean, leave the hospital.
- 46:28Speaker 1: But one way or another, she managed to fool the doctors.
- 46:32Speaker 1: So once she was out, she continued her wrath, fueled
- 46:35Speaker 1: primarily by anger and jealousy of her husband leaving her
- 46:38Speaker 1: for another woman. Her focus was on David. She woned revenge,
- 46:43Speaker 1: and she was willing to go to extreme lengths to
- 46:47Speaker 1: get it.
- 46:48Speaker 2: Okay, I just have to say two things. First of all,
- 46:50Speaker 2: it just popped in my head. I'm surprised that David
- 46:52Speaker 2: didn't take Melissa, that he like left her with the
- 46:55Speaker 2: mom you know. Yeah, and then second of all, but
- 47:01Speaker 2: psychopaths are like very charming, usually write and persuasive, So
- 47:05Speaker 2: that's probably how she might have been when she was
- 47:08Speaker 2: in the hospital. Yeah, potentially, right, like easy to just
- 47:11Speaker 2: talk her way out of shit and stuff.
- 47:13Speaker 1: Yeah. So, less than twenty four hours after she signed
- 47:17Speaker 1: herself out of the hospital, Catherine's violent actions would continue.
- 47:22Speaker 1: She made her way over to a neighbor's house, asking
- 47:24Speaker 1: them for help. She told them that her daughter, Melissa
- 47:27Speaker 1: was sick and she needed someone to drive them to
- 47:29Speaker 1: the hospital together so she can be looked at. So
- 47:33Speaker 1: the neighbor agreed, Catherine walked back over to their house.
- 47:36Speaker 1: The neighbors got their things hopped into their car, and
- 47:39Speaker 1: then drove over to Catherine's house to pick the two
- 47:41Speaker 1: of them up. When they went inside, however, to assist Katherine,
- 47:45Speaker 1: they were not met with her and her sick daughter. Instead,
- 47:49Speaker 1: they were met with Katherine wielding one of her butcher knives.
- 47:54Speaker 2: Oh boy.
- 47:56Speaker 1: Katherine chased them and even slashed a large cut across
- 48:01Speaker 1: the woman's face, and she threatened to kill them if
- 48:05Speaker 1: they didn't do what she said. She wanted them to
- 48:08Speaker 1: drive her to David's mother's house.
- 48:12Speaker 2: Oh wow.
- 48:13Speaker 1: Her intentions were if she couldn't have David, then David
- 48:18Speaker 1: couldn't have his mother.
- 48:22Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, Oh sorry, I totally misheard that wanted
- 48:26Speaker 2: to go to David's mom's house. Not David's house. Yes, okay, sorry.
- 48:30Speaker 2: For some reason, I think in my brain just was
- 48:31Speaker 2: like going to David's house. No, David's mom.
- 48:34Speaker 1: She wanted them to drive to David's mother's house so
- 48:37Speaker 1: she could kill David's mom.
- 48:40Speaker 2: Yep.
- 48:41Speaker 1: And that's where we're going to end this episode.
- 48:43Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I felt like it was coming to
- 48:47Speaker 2: an end. Heerh wow. Okay, okay, just okay, I mean
- 48:56Speaker 2: this one is what is quite a lot here? Yeah
- 49:01Speaker 2: you think, yeah, like for the next week now, I'm
- 49:04Speaker 2: just gonna be like in deep thought over this. This person.
- 49:10Speaker 1: Did I break you? Is your brain broken right now?
- 49:13Speaker 2: A little bit? Actually, I'm processing so much shit right
- 49:17Speaker 2: now that I my little innocent brain would never have
- 49:20Speaker 2: thought could be. So just bear with me.
- 49:24Speaker 1: Okay, I'll bear with you. I got it.
- 49:26Speaker 2: I am very surprised. Sometimes that shit still stocks me
- 49:29Speaker 2: so much.
- 49:30Speaker 1: I can tell. Do you feel like a drink now?
- 49:33Speaker 2: Maybe?
- 49:35Speaker 1: Maybe this is an absolutely wild case. Researching it has
- 49:40Speaker 1: been very interesting, to say the least. I'm kind of
- 49:43Speaker 1: glad I'm doing a deeper dive on this one.
- 49:46Speaker 2: Sometimes I honestly find it not easier, but like because
- 49:51Speaker 2: you're more in control when you're researching it, almost like
- 49:54Speaker 2: doesn't affect me as much as like me just like
- 49:56Speaker 2: stet like sitting here and standing here whatever listening. Yeah,
- 50:00Speaker 2: fair enough, No, because and then you're literally having to
- 50:02Speaker 2: process all the shit in like such a small period
- 50:05Speaker 2: of time.
- 50:06Speaker 1: And well, researching it you can you can absorb it
- 50:09Speaker 1: and read it at your own pace. Yeah, right, So
- 50:12Speaker 1: we take the time we research it. We stand the
- 50:14Speaker 1: same topic for a little while, we read several articles
- 50:17Speaker 1: about the same thing, we write it out ourselves, and
- 50:20Speaker 1: then that's a lot of time to, like you say,
- 50:23Speaker 1: process it before you move on to the next piece
- 50:25Speaker 1: of information. Yeah, this it's just right across your face.
- 50:29Speaker 2: A slap in the face.
- 50:31Speaker 1: Yeah that was a very low, like low sounding clap,
- 50:34Speaker 1: her slap.
- 50:37Speaker 2: But it's also amazing that I don't I have never
- 50:40Speaker 2: heard of her.
- 50:40Speaker 1: You've never heard of her?
- 50:42Speaker 2: No, really no, which is bizarre.
- 50:45Speaker 1: I'm sure you have, you just don't recognize the case
- 50:47Speaker 1: yet because we're still her early years.
- 50:50Speaker 2: It's true. Oh gosh, Lord knows what she's going to
- 50:53Speaker 2: get up to.
- 50:55Speaker 1: Yeah, Ben knows it's not cool. I'm sure a lot
- 51:00Speaker 1: of people out there listening to this episode also know
- 51:02Speaker 1: it's not cool. It's a lot so heads up on that.
- 51:06Speaker 1: But well, we'll buckle up and we'll talk all about
- 51:10Speaker 1: it next week, next Tuesday, next Tuesday. Yeah, So should
- 51:16Speaker 1: we maybe do a post show today from Patreon talk
- 51:18Speaker 1: about this, maybe unfold some of your emotions you're dealing
- 51:21Speaker 1: with right now.
- 51:23Speaker 2: I don't even know, let's do it. I might just
- 51:25Speaker 2: be like, still stunned.
- 51:27Speaker 1: We're gonna do a quick little post show. If you're
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- 51:36Speaker 1: cool too. But we have all our links down there, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube,
- 51:41Speaker 1: which we are actually actively vlogging on now.
- 51:45Speaker 2: Yeah, there's we never even mentioned that yet that there's
- 51:47Speaker 2: a new new blog up. Yeah, I have video up.
- 51:50Speaker 2: That's cool.
- 51:51Speaker 1: So link is down below, go check it out. We're
- 51:52Speaker 1: gonna be doing a lot more vlogs coming up. Yeah,
- 51:55Speaker 1: all the good stuff is down there, including also the
- 51:58Speaker 1: link to go listen to our podcast Fearful.
- 52:02Speaker 2: So there's a lot of goodies down there, look at so.
- 52:05Speaker 1: Go check it out. In the meantime though, like I said,
- 52:08Speaker 1: we'll see you next week or maybe we'll see you
- 52:10Speaker 1: on Patreon.
- 52:11Speaker 2: Yeah, so entil Part two, Stay wicked.