May 6, 2025 • 10 mins
This week in #TrueCrimeTuesday, we talk about Kathrine Knight, "Australia's Hannibal Lecter".
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Side for True Crime Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
The story is true, sounds true?
Speaker 1 (00:07):
No, it sounds made up. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Parry and Shannon present Crime. All right, this is a warning.
This is a pretty violent story. This is the story
of Catherine Knight and just to let you know how
it ends, she was the first woman in the history
of Australia to be sentenced to life in prison. She's
(00:36):
she had severe issues from go.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Can I have some nice music to start this story?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I don't even know what I don't even.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Know what's music. It started off nice, just like every relationship.
Catherine Knight and John Price seemed to be the perfect couple, bubbly,
charming and adored by each other's children. But the relationship
quickly descended into chaos as Katherine stabbed John thirty seven
(01:14):
times into capito. Well it started nice, bubbly, charming and adored.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Okay, let's back it up, all right, please shall we?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
She was born Catherine was Can I get back my
nice music? Oh? Catherine was born and raised in Moore.
It was a dysfunctional family which one isn't which saw
her mother Barbara cheat on her father Jack with his
coworker and friend, Kenneth. It's just kids stuff, Bob. She
(01:52):
had seven She had seven siblings. She was a twin
and oh, this is really dark. I don't know if
I can.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
She was abused.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
She was abused, Yeah, by several family members. It's you
cut the good music. Yeah, no, actually, no good parts
of this story anyway. Apart from her twin sister, the
only person she was Catherine was close to within her
family was her uncle Oscar Knight, who was a champion horseman,
(02:30):
by the way, and then he killed himself.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
She got into high school, she was known as a loner.
She was known as a bully actually that would prey
on the younger kids. She assaulted at least one boy
at school with a weapon, was once left injured by
a teacher, but it turns out that the teacher was
simply defending themselves against her. When she left school at
the age of fifteen, she couldn't read. She couldn't write.
(02:57):
She got a job as a cutter in a clothing factory.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
She was promoted pretty remember that pr Yeah, she was
promoted pretty quickly. Given her own set of butcher's knives,
in fact, which she kept strapped to the ceiling above
her bed. Guys, guys, quick little psa on life. If
you hook up with a woman, a girl, anyone, and
(03:21):
they've got a set up butcher knives strapped to the
ceiling above their bed, No sex is worth that.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
She This job that she had as at the local
abbatois what's an fancy word for slaughterhouse? Okay, that's that's
how she was making money and stayed in that job
until she was eventually put behind bars. She married back
in nineteen seventy three, first first marriage. He was a
(03:50):
heavy drinker. They met while they were working at the
slaughterhouse before they tied the knot in a drunken ceremony
a year.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Later, Catherine's mom said to the soon to be husband
at the ceremony, you better watch this one or she'll
e fin kill you, stir up the wrong way or
do the wrong thing.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
In year f that's very similar to what my mother
in law told me on my wedding day.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Is it really on their wedding night, Michelle, excuse me not, Michelle,
Catherine tried to strangle her husband yeap, later explaining it
was because he fell asleep after only having sex three times. Guys,
never mind are the red flags?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Is that what you're saying? I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I mean that's a real ding dong, isn't it? Is
that a plus or a minus? Like your wife's pissed
off at you because you only want to go out
it three times.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
In one of their fights, she smashed him in the
head with a frying pan because he got home late
after a dart competition when he reached the finals.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
The detail of this story is incredible now is.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
None of this is the crime that put her in
jail for life without parole. But then again, I'm.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Sorry, Like, that's sad. Arrived home late from a darts
competition after he reached the final, so he didn't even
win it.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
He didn't even win.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That sucks.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Maybe that's what it was had he come back with
a trophy.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
This is like when you come home from fantasy camp.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And all I am is sore.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, we are in the middle of True Crime Tuesday
and we're talking about Catherine Knight. Where we left off. Well,
Catherine had a rough go of things right out the
shoot there as well. She had an awful childhood, sexually
abused by different men in her family throughout her childhood,
troubled relationships without men or with men throughout her adult life,
(05:44):
many many, many red flags. None were heated. There is
a book written about Catherine, by the way, it's called Bloodstains,
and it all came to a head in a murder
in two thousand and one. But up until that point,
she was a bully. We talked about how she beat
people up at school. She tried to strangle her first
(06:05):
husband on their wedding night because he didn't want to
have sex more than three times. Later, fractured his skull
with a frying pan, killed another partner's dog, and stabbed
him with a pair of scissors. A former detective says
she was a horror movie in the making, to which
I say, that's a pretty solid horror movie up until
(06:26):
that point, right.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah. She eventually begins an affair with a John Price
before nineteen eighty eight, when his marriage ended. She later
moved into his house in nineteen ninety five. He was
aware of her reputation. I'm going to repeat that, he
was aware of her violent reputation and decided to look
the other way.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Sometimes crazy women there the craziest.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
He refused to marry her, and she tried to force
him by apparently recording him videotape him the stuff that
he had stolen from work, and then sending that videotape
to the boss. He even said at one point he
was so worried about her he told his co workers,
if I don't show up to work tomorrow, call the cops.
(07:13):
Guess what. He didn't show up to work the next day.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Neighbors found the officers the next morning. This was March first,
two thousand. Why well, there were blood stains on the
couple's front door. Police show up, They go inside, and
they find this guy not as lucky as the first husband. No,
they find his body mutilated inside the home. She's found
(07:39):
passed out nearby. Why would you fall asleep? She took
a bunch of pills.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
No, no, no him, She stabbed him at first while
he was sleeping. You already know that what you're living with,
and you know you've just told everybody because you took
a restraining order out on her and told your coworkers
this might be the end of it. Can you fall asleep?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Sergeant Robert Wells was one of the first on the scene.
He says, by the time I got there, Catherine was
leaving in an ambulance. She had taken enough pills, not
enough to kill her, but enough to make her sleep.
Sergeant Robert Wells says, I walked inside. I walked inside
and saw the human skin pelt hanging up, completely intact,
(08:21):
in one piece.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Again. Remember she worked at a slaughterhouse, so she knew
how to do this.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
John Price's decapitated and skinned body was lying on the
floor in the lounge room. We found his head. It
had been boiled and cooked in a pot on the stove.
There were a number of slices of rump taken off
of his human rump, baked in the oven with some vegetables,
(08:48):
and put on plates with the name of two of
his children on them. Good night, everybody. Needless to say.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
She was sence life in prison without parole because they
don't have the death penalty there in Australia. She appealed.
She appealed five years later, lost and appeal thankfully.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I should use different seasoning. You're right, I should not
have made that meal the way I made it.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
During the sentencing, the judge said the last minutes of
his life must have been a time of abject terror,
as they were a time of utter enjoyment for her well.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
And he had no idea. I mean she didn't skin him.
Did she skin him alive? Did she cut off parts
of his rump for the rump roast when he was
still alive? Well, do we know that the cause, the manner,
the whole. How did he die?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I would have said the stab the thirty seven stab
wounds to multiple times.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Are those stab wounds aside from the stab wounds that
go along with getting skinned.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I'm afraid you're asking specific questions that make you weird.
We can just pull back and say he.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Died, Well, it's I mean, it's a matter of science.
It's in the.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Autops what it is. Forensics is what you're concerned.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
But I mean, if you're stabbed thirty seven times, it's
a horrific way to die. But that's not getting skinned
alive and watching part of your you know, your your
rump being cut off for the oven with some parsnips,
Side for True Crime Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
The story is true, sounds true?
Speaker 1 (00:07):
No, it sounds made up. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Parry and Shannon present Crime. All right, this is a warning.
This is a pretty violent story. This is the story
of Catherine Knight and just to let you know how
it ends, she was the first woman in the history
of Australia to be sentenced to life in prison. She's
(00:36):
she had severe issues from go.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Can I have some nice music to start this story?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I don't even know what I don't even.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Know what's music. It started off nice, just like every relationship.
Catherine Knight and John Price seemed to be the perfect couple, bubbly,
charming and adored by each other's children. But the relationship
quickly descended into chaos as Katherine stabbed John thirty seven
(01:14):
times into capito. Well it started nice, bubbly, charming and adored.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Okay, let's back it up, all right, please shall we?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
She was born Catherine was Can I get back my
nice music? Oh? Catherine was born and raised in Moore.
It was a dysfunctional family which one isn't which saw
her mother Barbara cheat on her father Jack with his
coworker and friend, Kenneth. It's just kids stuff, Bob. She
(01:52):
had seven She had seven siblings. She was a twin
and oh, this is really dark. I don't know if
I can.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
She was abused.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
She was abused, Yeah, by several family members. It's you
cut the good music. Yeah, no, actually, no good parts
of this story anyway. Apart from her twin sister, the
only person she was Catherine was close to within her
family was her uncle Oscar Knight, who was a champion horseman,
(02:30):
by the way, and then he killed himself.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
She got into high school, she was known as a loner.
She was known as a bully actually that would prey
on the younger kids. She assaulted at least one boy
at school with a weapon, was once left injured by
a teacher, but it turns out that the teacher was
simply defending themselves against her. When she left school at
the age of fifteen, she couldn't read. She couldn't write.
(02:57):
She got a job as a cutter in a clothing factory.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
She was promoted pretty remember that pr Yeah, she was
promoted pretty quickly. Given her own set of butcher's knives,
in fact, which she kept strapped to the ceiling above
her bed. Guys, guys, quick little psa on life. If
you hook up with a woman, a girl, anyone, and
(03:21):
they've got a set up butcher knives strapped to the
ceiling above their bed, No sex is worth that.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
She This job that she had as at the local
abbatois what's an fancy word for slaughterhouse? Okay, that's that's
how she was making money and stayed in that job
until she was eventually put behind bars. She married back
in nineteen seventy three, first first marriage. He was a
(03:50):
heavy drinker. They met while they were working at the
slaughterhouse before they tied the knot in a drunken ceremony
a year.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Later, Catherine's mom said to the soon to be husband
at the ceremony, you better watch this one or she'll
e fin kill you, stir up the wrong way or
do the wrong thing.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
In year f that's very similar to what my mother
in law told me on my wedding day.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Is it really on their wedding night, Michelle, excuse me not, Michelle,
Catherine tried to strangle her husband yeap, later explaining it
was because he fell asleep after only having sex three times. Guys,
never mind are the red flags?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Is that what you're saying? I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I mean that's a real ding dong, isn't it? Is
that a plus or a minus? Like your wife's pissed
off at you because you only want to go out
it three times.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
In one of their fights, she smashed him in the
head with a frying pan because he got home late
after a dart competition when he reached the finals.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
The detail of this story is incredible now is.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
None of this is the crime that put her in
jail for life without parole. But then again, I'm.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Sorry, Like, that's sad. Arrived home late from a darts
competition after he reached the final, so he didn't even
win it.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
He didn't even win.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That sucks.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Maybe that's what it was had he come back with
a trophy.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
This is like when you come home from fantasy camp.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And all I am is sore.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, we are in the middle of True Crime Tuesday
and we're talking about Catherine Knight. Where we left off. Well,
Catherine had a rough go of things right out the
shoot there as well. She had an awful childhood, sexually
abused by different men in her family throughout her childhood,
troubled relationships without men or with men throughout her adult life,
(05:44):
many many, many red flags. None were heated. There is
a book written about Catherine, by the way, it's called Bloodstains,
and it all came to a head in a murder
in two thousand and one. But up until that point,
she was a bully. We talked about how she beat
people up at school. She tried to strangle her first
(06:05):
husband on their wedding night because he didn't want to
have sex more than three times. Later, fractured his skull
with a frying pan, killed another partner's dog, and stabbed
him with a pair of scissors. A former detective says
she was a horror movie in the making, to which
I say, that's a pretty solid horror movie up until
(06:26):
that point, right.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah. She eventually begins an affair with a John Price
before nineteen eighty eight, when his marriage ended. She later
moved into his house in nineteen ninety five. He was
aware of her reputation. I'm going to repeat that, he
was aware of her violent reputation and decided to look
the other way.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Sometimes crazy women there the craziest.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
He refused to marry her, and she tried to force
him by apparently recording him videotape him the stuff that
he had stolen from work, and then sending that videotape
to the boss. He even said at one point he
was so worried about her he told his co workers,
if I don't show up to work tomorrow, call the cops.
(07:13):
Guess what. He didn't show up to work the next day.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Neighbors found the officers the next morning. This was March first,
two thousand. Why well, there were blood stains on the
couple's front door. Police show up, They go inside, and
they find this guy not as lucky as the first husband. No,
they find his body mutilated inside the home. She's found
(07:39):
passed out nearby. Why would you fall asleep? She took
a bunch of pills.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
No, no, no him, She stabbed him at first while
he was sleeping. You already know that what you're living with,
and you know you've just told everybody because you took
a restraining order out on her and told your coworkers
this might be the end of it. Can you fall asleep?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Sergeant Robert Wells was one of the first on the scene.
He says, by the time I got there, Catherine was
leaving in an ambulance. She had taken enough pills, not
enough to kill her, but enough to make her sleep.
Sergeant Robert Wells says, I walked inside. I walked inside
and saw the human skin pelt hanging up, completely intact,
(08:21):
in one piece.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Again. Remember she worked at a slaughterhouse, so she knew
how to do this.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
John Price's decapitated and skinned body was lying on the
floor in the lounge room. We found his head. It
had been boiled and cooked in a pot on the stove.
There were a number of slices of rump taken off
of his human rump, baked in the oven with some vegetables,
(08:48):
and put on plates with the name of two of
his children on them. Good night, everybody. Needless to say.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
She was sence life in prison without parole because they
don't have the death penalty there in Australia. She appealed.
She appealed five years later, lost and appeal thankfully.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I should use different seasoning. You're right, I should not
have made that meal the way I made it.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
During the sentencing, the judge said the last minutes of
his life must have been a time of abject terror,
as they were a time of utter enjoyment for her well.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
And he had no idea. I mean she didn't skin him.
Did she skin him alive? Did she cut off parts
of his rump for the rump roast when he was
still alive? Well, do we know that the cause, the manner,
the whole. How did he die?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I would have said the stab the thirty seven stab
wounds to multiple times.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Are those stab wounds aside from the stab wounds that
go along with getting skinned.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I'm afraid you're asking specific questions that make you weird.
We can just pull back and say he.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Died, Well, it's I mean, it's a matter of science.
It's in the.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Autops what it is. Forensics is what you're concerned.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
But I mean, if you're stabbed thirty seven times, it's
a horrific way to die. But that's not getting skinned
alive and watching part of your you know, your your
rump being cut off for the oven with some parsnips,
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