In the shocking crimes by Katherine Knight, which is referred to as “Australia's Hannibal Lecter”

Katherine Knight's story reads like the plot of a horror film.

The first woman in Australian history, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, was arrested in 2001 after the police had passed her next to her murdered husband John Price, whom she had brutally stabbed, before she pounded him alive to serve his remains in a stew for his two children.

According to Australian Broadcasting Company and News.com.au.

People looks back on the terrible murder of 2001 and the warning signs that the investigators said, previous cruel death of Price, all of which were documented in the book Blood stains From journalist Peter Lalor a year later.

Warning signs from Ritter's past

Before the murder, Knight in her Aberdeen, New South Wales, had a certain reputation to be “a very competent meat worker”, the neighbor Rick Banyard told ABC on the 20th anniversary of the murder. According to the former detective Luke Taylor, the News.com.

The outlet reported that Knight claimed that she had been sexually abused by different men in her family during her childhood, which led to a number of worried relationships with men during her adult life. “There were so many warning signs, none has yet been considered,” said Taylor.

Lalor's book about Knight examines some of these incidents: she was reminded by classmates in childhood as a bully, who once beat up a boy. She tried to strangle her first husband, David Kellett, on her wedding night and later broke his skull with a pan during a home dispute. She also killed another partner's dog and stabbed it with scissors.

“She was a horror film in the manufacture,” said Taylor, the former detective.

Price's murder

The relationship between Knight and Price seemed to be “nothing out of the norm” to the neighbors and employees, Barnyard told ABC. “Basically, I think nobody expects an important drama, let alone the crime, which was recorded as one of the worst history of history in Australia,” he said.

But Knight was abusive and once stabbed the price during a dispute, which caused the price to receive an injunction against her. But according to the outlet, the couple briefly reconciled.

After another particularly tense dispute at home, Price warned the employees that they should call the police and search for him if he did not appear for work.

The next morning, the next morning, March 1, 2000, called officers after worrying about blood stains at the couple's front door. The police came and soon found Price's body mutilated in the house, while Knight passed out nearby, news.com.au reported.

“When I came into the scene, Katherine went into an ambulance. She had taken some pills. Not enough to kill her, but they made them sleepy,” said former Sergeant Robert Wells earlier in 2025, 25 years after the cruel. “I went in and saw how the human skin furs catch in one piece completely.

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Knight was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001 and later lost an appeal procedure in 2006, so The guardian.

“The last minutes of [Price’s] Life must have been a bit of bitter horror for him because they were a time of complete pleasure for them, ”said the Supreme Court, Barry O'keefe, according to the newspaper.

Knight is the first woman in Australian history to receive a life sentence without probation. It remains in custody in the Silverwater Women's Correctional Center.

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