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