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<v Speaker 1>Side for True Crime Tuesday.

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<v Speaker 2>The story is true, sounds true?

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<v Speaker 1>No, it sounds made up. I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>Parry and Shannon present Crime. All right, this is a warning.

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<v Speaker 2>This is a pretty violent story. This is the story

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<v Speaker 2>of Catherine Knight and just to let you know how

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<v Speaker 2>it ends, she was the first woman in the history

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<v Speaker 2>of Australia to be sentenced to life in prison. She's

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<v Speaker 2>she had severe issues from go.

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<v Speaker 1>Can I have some nice music to start this story?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't even know what I don't even.

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<v Speaker 1>Know what's music. It started off nice, just like every relationship.

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<v Speaker 1>Catherine Knight and John Price seemed to be the perfect couple, bubbly,

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<v Speaker 1>charming and adored by each other's children. But the relationship

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<v Speaker 1>quickly descended into chaos as Katherine stabbed John thirty seven

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<v Speaker 1>times into capito. Well it started nice, bubbly, charming and adored.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't even know.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, let's back it up, all right, please shall we?

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<v Speaker 2>Yes?

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<v Speaker 1>She was born Catherine was Can I get back my

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<v Speaker 1>nice music? Oh? Catherine was born and raised in Moore.

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<v Speaker 1>It was a dysfunctional family which one isn't which saw

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<v Speaker 1>her mother Barbara cheat on her father Jack with his

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<v Speaker 1>coworker and friend, Kenneth. It's just kids stuff, Bob. She

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<v Speaker 1>had seven She had seven siblings. She was a twin

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<v Speaker 1>and oh, this is really dark. I don't know if

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<v Speaker 1>I can.

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<v Speaker 2>She was abused.

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<v Speaker 1>She was abused, Yeah, by several family members. It's you

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<v Speaker 1>cut the good music. Yeah, no, actually, no good parts

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<v Speaker 1>of this story anyway. Apart from her twin sister, the

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<v Speaker 1>only person she was Catherine was close to within her

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<v Speaker 1>family was her uncle Oscar Knight, who was a champion horseman,

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<v Speaker 1>by the way, and then he killed himself.

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<v Speaker 2>She got into high school, she was known as a loner.

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<v Speaker 2>She was known as a bully actually that would prey

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<v Speaker 2>on the younger kids. She assaulted at least one boy

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<v Speaker 2>at school with a weapon, was once left injured by

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<v Speaker 2>a teacher, but it turns out that the teacher was

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<v Speaker 2>simply defending themselves against her. When she left school at

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<v Speaker 2>the age of fifteen, she couldn't read. She couldn't write.

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<v Speaker 2>She got a job as a cutter in a clothing factory.

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<v Speaker 1>She was promoted pretty remember that pr Yeah, she was

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<v Speaker 1>promoted pretty quickly. Given her own set of butcher's knives,

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<v Speaker 1>in fact, which she kept strapped to the ceiling above

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<v Speaker 1>her bed. Guys, guys, quick little psa on life. If

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<v Speaker 1>you hook up with a woman, a girl, anyone, and

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<v Speaker 1>they've got a set up butcher knives strapped to the

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<v Speaker 1>ceiling above their bed, No sex is worth that.

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<v Speaker 2>She This job that she had as at the local

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<v Speaker 2>abbatois what's an fancy word for slaughterhouse? Okay, that's that's

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<v Speaker 2>how she was making money and stayed in that job

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<v Speaker 2>until she was eventually put behind bars. She married back

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<v Speaker 2>in nineteen seventy three, first first marriage. He was a

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<v Speaker 2>heavy drinker. They met while they were working at the

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<v Speaker 2>slaughterhouse before they tied the knot in a drunken ceremony

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<v Speaker 2>a year.

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<v Speaker 1>Later, Catherine's mom said to the soon to be husband

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<v Speaker 1>at the ceremony, you better watch this one or she'll

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<v Speaker 1>e fin kill you, stir up the wrong way or

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<v Speaker 1>do the wrong thing.

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<v Speaker 2>In year f that's very similar to what my mother

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<v Speaker 2>in law told me on my wedding day.

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<v Speaker 1>Is it really on their wedding night, Michelle, excuse me not, Michelle,

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<v Speaker 1>Catherine tried to strangle her husband yeap, later explaining it

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<v Speaker 1>was because he fell asleep after only having sex three times. Guys,

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<v Speaker 1>never mind are the red flags?

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<v Speaker 2>Is that what you're saying? I mean, I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean that's a real ding dong, isn't it? Is

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<v Speaker 1>that a plus or a minus? Like your wife's pissed

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<v Speaker 1>off at you because you only want to go out

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<v Speaker 1>it three times.

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<v Speaker 2>In one of their fights, she smashed him in the

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<v Speaker 2>head with a frying pan because he got home late

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<v Speaker 2>after a dart competition when he reached the finals.

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<v Speaker 1>The detail of this story is incredible now is.

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<v Speaker 2>None of this is the crime that put her in

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<v Speaker 2>jail for life without parole. But then again, I'm.

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<v Speaker 1>Sorry, Like, that's sad. Arrived home late from a darts

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<v Speaker 1>competition after he reached the final, so he didn't even

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<v Speaker 1>win it.

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<v Speaker 2>He didn't even win.

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<v Speaker 1>That sucks.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe that's what it was had he come back with

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<v Speaker 2>a trophy.

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<v Speaker 1>This is like when you come home from fantasy camp.

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<v Speaker 2>And all I am is sore.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we are in the middle of True Crime Tuesday

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<v Speaker 1>and we're talking about Catherine Knight. Where we left off. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>Catherine had a rough go of things right out the

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<v Speaker 1>shoot there as well. She had an awful childhood, sexually

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<v Speaker 1>abused by different men in her family throughout her childhood,

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<v Speaker 1>troubled relationships without men or with men throughout her adult life,

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<v Speaker 1>many many, many red flags. None were heated. There is

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<v Speaker 1>a book written about Catherine, by the way, it's called Bloodstains,

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<v Speaker 1>and it all came to a head in a murder

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<v Speaker 1>in two thousand and one. But up until that point,

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<v Speaker 1>she was a bully. We talked about how she beat

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<v Speaker 1>people up at school. She tried to strangle her first

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<v Speaker 1>husband on their wedding night because he didn't want to

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<v Speaker 1>have sex more than three times. Later, fractured his skull

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<v Speaker 1>with a frying pan, killed another partner's dog, and stabbed

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<v Speaker 1>him with a pair of scissors. A former detective says

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<v Speaker 1>she was a horror movie in the making, to which

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<v Speaker 1>I say, that's a pretty solid horror movie up until

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<v Speaker 1>that point, right.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. She eventually begins an affair with a John Price

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<v Speaker 2>before nineteen eighty eight, when his marriage ended. She later

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<v Speaker 2>moved into his house in nineteen ninety five. He was

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<v Speaker 2>aware of her reputation. I'm going to repeat that, he

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<v Speaker 2>was aware of her violent reputation and decided to look

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<v Speaker 2>the other way.

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<v Speaker 1>Sometimes crazy women there the craziest.

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<v Speaker 2>He refused to marry her, and she tried to force

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<v Speaker 2>him by apparently recording him videotape him the stuff that

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<v Speaker 2>he had stolen from work, and then sending that videotape

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<v Speaker 2>to the boss. He even said at one point he

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<v Speaker 2>was so worried about her he told his co workers,

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<v Speaker 2>if I don't show up to work tomorrow, call the cops.

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<v Speaker 2>Guess what. He didn't show up to work the next day.

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<v Speaker 1>Neighbors found the officers the next morning. This was March first,

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<v Speaker 1>two thousand. Why well, there were blood stains on the

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<v Speaker 1>couple's front door. Police show up, They go inside, and

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<v Speaker 1>they find this guy not as lucky as the first husband. No,

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<v Speaker 1>they find his body mutilated inside the home. She's found

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<v Speaker 1>passed out nearby. Why would you fall asleep? She took

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<v Speaker 1>a bunch of pills.

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<v Speaker 2>No, no, no him, She stabbed him at first while

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<v Speaker 2>he was sleeping. You already know that what you're living with,

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<v Speaker 2>and you know you've just told everybody because you took

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<v Speaker 2>a restraining order out on her and told your coworkers

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<v Speaker 2>this might be the end of it. Can you fall asleep?

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<v Speaker 1>Sergeant Robert Wells was one of the first on the scene.

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<v Speaker 1>He says, by the time I got there, Catherine was

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<v Speaker 1>leaving in an ambulance. She had taken enough pills, not

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<v Speaker 1>enough to kill her, but enough to make her sleep.

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<v Speaker 1>Sergeant Robert Wells says, I walked inside. I walked inside

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<v Speaker 1>and saw the human skin pelt hanging up, completely intact,

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<v Speaker 1>in one piece.

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<v Speaker 2>Again. Remember she worked at a slaughterhouse, so she knew

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<v Speaker 2>how to do this.

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<v Speaker 1>John Price's decapitated and skinned body was lying on the

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<v Speaker 1>floor in the lounge room. We found his head. It

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<v Speaker 1>had been boiled and cooked in a pot on the stove.

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<v Speaker 1>There were a number of slices of rump taken off

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<v Speaker 1>of his human rump, baked in the oven with some vegetables,

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<v Speaker 1>and put on plates with the name of two of

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<v Speaker 1>his children on them. Good night, everybody. Needless to say.

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<v Speaker 2>She was sence life in prison without parole because they

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<v Speaker 2>don't have the death penalty there in Australia. She appealed.

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<v Speaker 2>She appealed five years later, lost and appeal thankfully.

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<v Speaker 1>I should use different seasoning. You're right, I should not

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<v Speaker 1>have made that meal the way I made it.

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<v Speaker 2>During the sentencing, the judge said the last minutes of

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<v Speaker 2>his life must have been a time of abject terror,

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<v Speaker 2>as they were a time of utter enjoyment for her well.

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<v Speaker 1>And he had no idea. I mean she didn't skin him.

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<v Speaker 1>Did she skin him alive? Did she cut off parts

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<v Speaker 1>of his rump for the rump roast when he was

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<v Speaker 1>still alive? Well, do we know that the cause, the manner,

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<v Speaker 1>the whole. How did he die?

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<v Speaker 2>I would have said the stab the thirty seven stab

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<v Speaker 2>wounds to multiple times.

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<v Speaker 1>Are those stab wounds aside from the stab wounds that

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<v Speaker 1>go along with getting skinned.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm afraid you're asking specific questions that make you weird.

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<v Speaker 2>We can just pull back and say he.

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<v Speaker 1>Died, Well, it's I mean, it's a matter of science.

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<v Speaker 1>It's in the.

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<v Speaker 2>Autops what it is. Forensics is what you're concerned.

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<v Speaker 1>But I mean, if you're stabbed thirty seven times, it's

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<v Speaker 1>a horrific way to die. But that's not getting skinned

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<v Speaker 1>alive and watching part of your you know, your your

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<v Speaker 1>rump being cut off for the oven with some parsnips,