The Cannibalistic Katherine Knight

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My fairly new found enthusiasm for psychology has lead me to become even more fascinated by humans with mental disorders.  This week's blog is being dedicated to all those crazed murders; the ones who see nothing wrong with the crimes they have committed simply because their brains don't function as normal.  I'd like to expose you to the story of one particular lunatic; Katherine Knight.

To Summarize: 

Kathrine Knight is the first Australian woman to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. 

She was convicted of the murder of her partner, John Price, in October 2001, and is currently imprisoned at the Silverwater Women's Correctional Center in NSW. 

She stabbed John Price to death and then skinned him. She then put his skin on a meat hook, cooked his head and parts of his body and placed them together with vegetables on plates with place-cards with his children's names.

Are You Ready for the Full Murder Tale?:

Katherine Knight's trail of demented offence begins when she tried to strangle her first husband to death on their wedding night for daring to only have sex with her three times before falling asleep. When he finally left her, Knight took their infant daughter and dropped her on a stretch of nearby train tracks (the baby was rescued by a hobo), then rampaged through town threatening random strangers with an ax.

David (first husband) and Kathrine on their wedding day

She later went on another rampage, slashing a woman's face and forcing her to drive to a service station, where Knight took a little boy hostage until the police arrived and beat her into submission with brooms, because law enforcement in Australia is apparently hilarious. None of this is the crazy part of her story.

Continue Towards Her Madness?:

If you've made it this far you're probably just as intrigued as I am by this.  Anyways, Knight eventually met a father of three named John Price and they moved in together, despite the fact that Price was well aware of her explosive fits of inexplicable slobbering Looney Tunes rage. Price wound up kicking her out and filed a restraining order against her, telling his co-workers that if he ever failed to show up for work, she had probably killed him. 

John Price and Kathy

He then gallantly allowed Knight back into his house for sex and fell asleep beside her, which suggests that Price perhaps didn't completely understand how restraining orders are supposed to work. Knight underscored this error by stabbing Price 37 times. When Price didn't show up for work the next day, his co-workers called the police, who showed up at Price's house to discover his skinned, headless body lying on the living room floor.

Knight had draped his skin, completely intact in a single piece, over an S hook in a doorway like a vanity curtain in Leatherface's house. Price's head was boiling in a pot on the stove, and pieces of his butt had been pan-fried with vegetables and gravy and plated up on the table in two place settings with name tags indicating that they were meant for Price's adult children (although the kids weren't expected, so she probably should have covered the plates with tinfoil).

May he stay resting peacefully