How Katherine Knight Slaughtered Her Boyfriend And Made Him Into Stew
How Katherine Knight Slaughtered Her Boyfriend And Made Him Into Stew Slaughterhouse worker Katherine Knight became the first woman in Australia to receive a life sentence without parole after she decapitated and cooked John Charles Thomas Price. Most lovers’ quarrels end with an apology. But for Katherine Knight, murder and mutilation were the end result. Not only did this Australian abattoir worker stab her lover with a butcher knife at least 37 times in February 2000, she then chopped him up, cooked him, and prepared to serve him to his own children. Even before this grisly killing, the life of Katherine Mary Knight was marked by violence and sexual abuse that only hinted at the bloodshed to come. A Brutal Childhood Born on October 24, 1955, in Tenterfield, Australia, Katherine Mary Knight was the product of a scandalous affair between her mother, Barbara Roughan, and her father, Ken Knight. Roughan was not only already a mother of four boys with another man, but she even met