Conceived during an extramarital affair, Katherine's early years were laden with abuse brought on by multiple members of her family. Her mother was routinely beaten and raped by her partner, and in turn she would give Katherine graphic details of the encounters, as well as telling her how much she hated sex and men. Katherine herself was said to have been sexually abused several times by members of her family until she was 11 years old, and the family members she accused of the abuse have since all confirmed her claims were true.
Though she often had a tendency for violence, Katherine was an otherwise model student, and though she couldn't read or write, she managed to find employment as a cutter in a clothing factory. She later found other work cutting up offal at the local abattoir, where she was quickly promoted to boning and given her own set of butcher knives. She claimed it was her dream job and had a set of knives hung above her bed "in case I ever need them."
Katherine's violent tendencies grew over time, and she soon earned herself a reputation of being willing to attack anyone who upset her. Her first marriage was to an alcoholic coworker named David Stanford Kellett, and on their wedding day, her mother warned him to keep an eye out or her daughter would likely kill him if he made her mad. On their wedding night, Katherine attempted to strangle him, saying she was angry at him for falling asleep after only having intercourse with her three times.
The couple had a child together, but Katherine's violence grew as she often attacked her husband in fits of jealous rage, including an incident where she hit her husband's head so hard with a frying pan, she fractured his skull. Kellett eventually left Katherine for good, unable to cope with the constant abuse any longer. The following night, she was admitted to St. Elmo's hospital after being seen violently tossing her infant's pram from side to side, the baby still inside, but was released on good behavior. Katherine then left the baby on a railway line, took up an ax, and headed into town where she threatened to kill people. The infant was rescued minutes before the next train was due to arrive, and Katherine was admitted into St. Elmo's again, but released the very next day.
Not long after, Katherine attacked a woman, slashing her face with a knife and forcing her to drive towards Queensland to find her husband. The woman managed to escape and by the time the police arrived, Katherine was holding a young boy hostage. She was eventually subdued, then admitted into another psychiatric hospital where she revealed she had intended to kill her husband, his mother, and his mechanic as punishment for fixing the car he left in.
Some months after her release, she became involved with, and even had a child with a man named David Saunders, but this would also prove to be disastrous. Katherine suffered severe jealousy over her partner and even cut the throat of his 2-month-old dingo pup in front of him as a warning of what she would do if he ever cheated on her. The two eventually got a house together, but after a fight that ended in Katherine smashing his face with an iron and stabbing him in the stomach with a pair of scissors, Saunders went into hiding. He came back briefly in an attempt to see their daughter, but Katherine went to the police and had an AVO issued against him.
Another relationship and another child later, Katherine soon became involved with a man named John Price. Price had three children of his own, one of which was living with his ex-wife. He was well aware of Katherine's violent history. Despite that, he let her move in with him and his two children, willing to overlook the occasional violent arguments. When Price refused to marry her, Katherine retaliated by video taping items Price had stolen from work and sent it to his boss, causing him to get fired. Price kicked her out of the house for it, but it did not end there.
Despite their falling out, Price restarted his relationship with Katherine, though he refused to let her move in with him again. Unable to handle the violent relationship, Price's friends abandoned him, no longer wanting to be a part of it. Soon enough the violent fights began again, and after Katherine stabbed him in the chest, Price drove her out again and went out to have a restraining order placed against her. He told he coworkers that day that if he didn't show up for work the next day, it was because Katherine killed him.
The following morning, Price did not show up for work, and his coworker and a neighbor turned up at his house to check on him. When they found blood on his front door, they called the police who broke down the door when they arrived. What they found was something out of a horror movie.
Price's body was on the floor, having been stabbed up to 37 times. He had been skinned, his skin hanging from a meat hook on the architrave of a door to the lounge room. He had been beheaded and parts of him had been cooked up and served on two settings with vegetables on the dining table. Next to each setting was a place card, each with a name for both his children. Thankfully, neither of his children were home at the time of the murder.
Katherine is the first Australian woman to have ever received a life sentence without the chance of parole and is currently still being held at the Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre in New South Wales.
The couple had a child together, but Katherine's violence grew as she often attacked her husband in fits of jealous rage, including an incident where she hit her husband's head so hard with a frying pan, she fractured his skull. Kellett eventually left Katherine for good, unable to cope with the constant abuse any longer. The following night, she was admitted to St. Elmo's hospital after being seen violently tossing her infant's pram from side to side, the baby still inside, but was released on good behavior. Katherine then left the baby on a railway line, took up an ax, and headed into town where she threatened to kill people. The infant was rescued minutes before the next train was due to arrive, and Katherine was admitted into St. Elmo's again, but released the very next day.
Not long after, Katherine attacked a woman, slashing her face with a knife and forcing her to drive towards Queensland to find her husband. The woman managed to escape and by the time the police arrived, Katherine was holding a young boy hostage. She was eventually subdued, then admitted into another psychiatric hospital where she revealed she had intended to kill her husband, his mother, and his mechanic as punishment for fixing the car he left in.
Some months after her release, she became involved with, and even had a child with a man named David Saunders, but this would also prove to be disastrous. Katherine suffered severe jealousy over her partner and even cut the throat of his 2-month-old dingo pup in front of him as a warning of what she would do if he ever cheated on her. The two eventually got a house together, but after a fight that ended in Katherine smashing his face with an iron and stabbing him in the stomach with a pair of scissors, Saunders went into hiding. He came back briefly in an attempt to see their daughter, but Katherine went to the police and had an AVO issued against him.
Another relationship and another child later, Katherine soon became involved with a man named John Price. Price had three children of his own, one of which was living with his ex-wife. He was well aware of Katherine's violent history. Despite that, he let her move in with him and his two children, willing to overlook the occasional violent arguments. When Price refused to marry her, Katherine retaliated by video taping items Price had stolen from work and sent it to his boss, causing him to get fired. Price kicked her out of the house for it, but it did not end there.
Despite their falling out, Price restarted his relationship with Katherine, though he refused to let her move in with him again. Unable to handle the violent relationship, Price's friends abandoned him, no longer wanting to be a part of it. Soon enough the violent fights began again, and after Katherine stabbed him in the chest, Price drove her out again and went out to have a restraining order placed against her. He told he coworkers that day that if he didn't show up for work the next day, it was because Katherine killed him.
The following morning, Price did not show up for work, and his coworker and a neighbor turned up at his house to check on him. When they found blood on his front door, they called the police who broke down the door when they arrived. What they found was something out of a horror movie.
Price's body was on the floor, having been stabbed up to 37 times. He had been skinned, his skin hanging from a meat hook on the architrave of a door to the lounge room. He had been beheaded and parts of him had been cooked up and served on two settings with vegetables on the dining table. Next to each setting was a place card, each with a name for both his children. Thankfully, neither of his children were home at the time of the murder.
Katherine is the first Australian woman to have ever received a life sentence without the chance of parole and is currently still being held at the Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre in New South Wales.
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