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1. Katherine knight

2. Contents I ntroduction to culprit Introduction to victim Prior to crime Crime scene Modes of death Investigations History of culprit Judiciary Reports

3. Introduction to Culprit Katherine Mary Knight born on October 24, 1955, in Tenterfield, Australia . Katherine Mary Knight was the product of a scandalous affair. When their secret rendezvous came to light, it rocked their small conservative town . Following this tumultuous start, Knight’s chaotic childhood didn’t get much better from there. Her father was a violent alcoholic who raped her mother multiple times a day. Knight herself claims that she was sexually assaulted by several family members until the age of 11.

4. C ontinue….. Without ever learning how to read or write, she quit at the age of 15 to work at a clothing factory. A year later, she landed her “dream job” at a slaughterhouse. Knight met David Kellett. In 1974, she convinced him to marry her. Her mother even warned him about her daughter’s temper, saying that Knight had “a screw loose somewhere .” Mother of 4 children.

5. Introduction to victim John Charles Thomas Price (born 4 April 1955) was the father of three children, when Knight had an affair with him. Reputedly a "terrific bloke" liked by everyone who knew him, his own marriage had ended in 1988.

6. Their house

7. Prior to crime During February 2000, John would be stabbed among other acts of abuse, in this month he would kick her out of the house. John was really scared of being killed by Katherine and would even joke about it to his co-workers about her murdering him.

8. Crime night

9. Crime night The 29th of February / the 1st of March would be the start of awful events. On the night of the 29th of February, John would spend the night with neighbors and his children would be staying with another family member . At 11pm, John returned home where Katherine was waiting for him, they then proceeded to have “pleasurable sex” before Katherine killed him.

10. Photograph of Katherine shortly before her crime .

11. Continue… After he fell asleep. Moments later, Knight impaled him repeatedly in the chest. Despite suffering multiple injuries, Price managed to escape from the bedroom, leaving a bloody trail behind him as he made his way to the front door but didn’t survive.

12. The only released crime scene photo

13. Once John was dead, Knight used a knife to remove the head and skin from his body and hung it from a meat hook in the entranceway of the house . She then decapitated him and cooked parts of his body, serving up the meat with baked potato, pumpkin, zucchini, cabbage, yellow squash and gravy in settings at the dinner table . Knight placed Price’s head in a pot on her stove and also roasted cut pieces of flesh from buttock in the oven.

14. tiny kitchen area where the blood trail led to the shocking discovery on the stove

15. Modes od death Butcher's knife. Stabbed at least 37 times – the ferocity of the attack made it difficult to count the number of wounds . Many were deep. Vitals like the lungs, liver, kidneys and aorta were hit. The blood loss was massive.

16. Continue….. The victim’s skin was on display, dangling from a meat hook on the architrave. Plated on the kitchen table were what appeared to be steaks, presented with vegetables. The steaks were from a human . she wrote place cards with messages for Price's adult children, which she set next to each meal.

17. Investigation John Price hadn’t turned up for work on the morning of March 1, a colleague went to see if he was OK. After noticing blood on the door, the workmate called police . They arrived at the house around 8am and were confronted with a pool of blood around 1m by 2m in the hallway of the house. Blood spatter and smears were found throughout the house.

18. From crime scene evidence, investigators deduced the first blows were struck in the master bedroom. He tried to escape, heading down the hallway toward the front door. His assailant chased him, stabbing him repeatedly in the back . His glimpse of hope was brief, and he was dragged back into the hallway where he finally expired . In the lounge room, police found Price’s headless body. Forensic evidence suggested he was dragged there after his death.

19. Then he’d been skinned. Then decapitated. Both were done skillfully and without signs of hesitation . In the kitchen, they found Price’s head, described as a “sickening stew” was still at 40-50C. On the kitchen table were “gruesome steaks”, carved from Price’s buttocks, that had been roasted in the oven with vegetables . After the post mortem examination, the skin was able to be re-sown onto Price’s body

20. police map of murder scene

21. History of violence She Strangled Her First Husband On Their Wedding Night. She later hit him in the head with a frying pan, fracturing his skull, because he came home late one night. She Killed A Former Boyfriend's Puppy. She Left Her Baby On Railroad Tracks.

22. Medical reports of culprit Knight claimed she's been subjected to repeated violence and sexual assaults. She also alleged her parents routinely beat her and her siblings with a dog leash and an electrical cord . She Was Diagnosed With Borderline Personality Disorder. BPD is a serious mental disorder that can cause sufferers to have unstable behavior and moods, and people with this disorder are prone to impulsivity and often experience intense anger and depression.

23. Judiciary reports The courts sentenced Knight to life in prison without the possibility of parole, making her the first woman in Australia's history to receive a true life sentence . Five years later, in 2006, Knight filed to appeal her sentence, claiming it was too severe a punishment, but the Supreme Court of South Wales dismissed her appeal.