10 Details Surrounding Katherine Knight, Who Butchered Her Boyfriend And Turned Him Into Stew

6 /10 Knight's Former Partners

All of his three previous partners before John Price (Kellett, a miner named David Saunders, and a co-worker in the slaughterhouse called John Chillingworth) had extreme violent incidents in which she attacked them.

She once beat Saunders in the face with an iron and stabbed him in the stomach with a pair of scissors after an argument, and previously she had cut the throat of his dingo puppy to show him what would happen if he ever had an affair with another woman. Like she did to Kellett, she often hit Chillingworth with a heavy metallic pan.

5 /10 John Price, A Terrific Bloke

Finally, John Price came into her life. A well-known and popular miner known as a “terrific bloke” by his companions, he was aware of her violent reputation but still took her into his home in 1995.

By all accounts, his children liked her, and, despite a few arguments escalating into a physical confrontation, Knight’s behavior was in one of her “quiet” times, and everything was, according to Price’s commentaries to a friend, “a bunch of roses.”

4 /10 On And Off

This came to an end in 1998, when they fought after Price repeatedly refused to marry her, unconvinced after previous divorces that marriage had anything to do with a couple’s happiness.

Knight recorded a tape of some old medical kits that Price had taken from work in a twisted set of actions and sent it to his employer, who fired him from a position he had been occupying for seventeen years.

This made her relationship into an on-and-off sort of deal, with Price repeatedly having enough of Knight, only to later take her back again.

3 /10 The Murder

Eventually, he had enough: a series of fights in the year 2000 ended with Knight stabbing him, after which he threw her out of his house and took a restraining order on her for him and his children.

Fearing for his life, he didn’t want to return home that day from work, but he was afraid that she would target his children instead.

He returned and sent the children away, then went to sleep: Knight arrived, they had sex, and in the middle of the night, she stabbed him to death with a butcher’s knife, with Price waking up and trying to flee before succumbing to his thirty-seven wounds.

2 /10 Kitchen Of Horrors

Not satisfied with this, Knight then skinned his body and hung the skinned body from a hook in the living room.

She chopped his head off and brought the head to the kitchen, where she cooked it in a casserole with vegetables.

She then served this in several plates, one for each of his children, and took down the body to arrange it into a relaxed position (with legs crossed and the left arm resting on an empty bottle of soda) to defile it further.

She left a handwritten note on top of a photograph of him, falsely accusing him of raping her daughter and his children, of confounding the investigation.

1 /10 Never To Be Released

Amazed at her murder’s cruelty, the judge that later tried Knight inscribed in her sentence, the words “never to be released.”

Impenitent for her actions as any psychopath, Knight repeatedly has appealed the ruling for considering it “too severe.

In one of the replies to her, an Australian court would summarize the feeling of all those who hear from her case: “This was an appalling crime, almost beyond contemplation in a civilized society.” She is still in prison, now 65.