"I Feel Fantastic..": The Robot That Freaked Out Youtube

The weird part of YouTube has often been a treasure trove of bizarre, sometimes creepy material, and it comes with the territory that the more bizarre and seemingly random the subject matter is, the more likely it'll become the source of some notorious internet urban legends.

Probably one of the most recognizable is Tara the singing robot.

On April 15, 2009, a video was uploaded on YouTube by the user Creepyblog entitled, "I Feel Fantastic." The video focused on a pale android that looked like something plucked straight from the oddest part of the uncanny valley, singing the words "I feel fantastic, hey hey hey... You feel fantastic, hey hey hey..." repeatedly along with some other ominous lines that we'll get to in a minute. The video eventually went viral and due to its complete lack of context, it was only natural for the internet to begin speculating. And in case you are someone who hasn't run across this weird piece of internet history, take a look at the video below:

The combination of the robot's appearance and the strange song left many confused, and the video's description didn't help things either:

“In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion was a highly accomplished Cypriot sculptor. Though skilled at imitating the human form, and well acquainted with it’s subtleties, he became disgusted by it when he witnessed the Propoetides prostituting themselves. These women were punished by Venus for their lack of worship with a coarseness of skin and a crudeness of nature, and were then forced into prostitution. Seeing this, Pygmalion the sculptor was repelled and could no longer appreciate women.
Seemingly alone, Pygmalion sought to create for himself a perfect, pure, unsullied companion. He used his particular skills to this end: he created a statue bride.

What you are about to watch is a mysterious video. It’s origin is attributed variously, and almost certainly spuriously, to various abstract artists or surrealists. The truth is that what we are seeing, and what we perceive to be strange and disturbing, is actually beauty to it’s creator.
Perhaps what we are viewing is the work of a modern Pygmalion.

To him, her toneless voice, the paleness of her skin and the comparative vibrancy of her lips may indeed be the very embodiment of a perfect woman…
Consider the mind-scape of the creator. In whose mind does this appear beautiful? In whose mind is this pure, near worshipful? Are we missing out on his perspective?

Who are we to be afraid or to judge them? He may well love her fully, perhaps more fully than any of us could ever hope to be loved. In the mind of her creator, she is a near goddess; the perfect representation, not just of femininity, but the peak of human potential. A perfectly satisfactory being.

How does that kind of unconditional love feel?

Well, how does she feel?

Fantastic.”

So where did this thing come from and what was the video supposed to mean if it even was supposed to mean anything? For a while the internet began forming theories, the most popular of which was that the creator of the android was actually a murderer. The reason for this theory came from some unsettling lines in the song she sings. Along with repeating how she feels fantastic, we feel fantastic, we are fantastic, etc., the middle of the song is where things take a turn and she starts singing, "Run, run, run, run... Please leave, please leave, please leave..." There is also a seemingly random shot where the camera zooms in on a wooded area and the robot's clothes even change briefly.

This led to the theory that the robot represented a woman its creator had killed due to her not meeting his standards of perfection (referencing the myth in the description), and he had then built the robot to replace her, dressing it in her clothes and doing his best to make it look like her. The lyrics were supposed to be the things he'd said to her right before her death, and that random shot of the woods? The rumor claimed that was where the body had been buried.

Another theory, also referencing the myth in the description, was that the robot had somehow become fully sentient and murdered its creator. A far less likely theory, but the internet loves its creepypastsas. Obviously, it's always best to pursue these sorts of theories with a healthy dose of skepticism, but that didn't stop people from wondering 'what if?' The answer, while still leaving some questions in its wake, was not nearly as menacing.

The robot's actual name is "Tara" and was created by a man named John Bergeron. She is currently listed on www.androidworld.com and has her own music video you can buy for $11 in the states ($19 everywhere else).

Screenshot from the AndroidWorld homepage.

Promotional image listed on the page that sells Tara's video.

As of writing this, there have been no real updates from John Bergeron himself, offering more of an explanation aside from what we can find on the AndroidWorld website or even Bergeron's original Geocities page. Still, Tara remains one of the best gems in the "that part of YouTube" crown and continues to confuse and freak out new viewers to this day.

Sources:

• "I Feel Fantastic," Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLy-AwdCOmI
• Tom Bergeron's Geocities Page: http://www.geocities.ws/androidmusicvideos/
• Tara's Page on Andriod World: http://www.androidworld.com/prod68.htm
• Review: "I Feel Fantastic": https://medium.com/@CounttheClock/review-i-feel-fantastic-3a5a82b46473
• "The Horrifying History of Tara the Android": http://www.the13thfloor.tv/2016/04/12/i-feel-fantastic-the-horrifying-history-of-tara-the-android/

Howard Schneider: The Nightmare Dentist of Jacksonville

Note:

This entry is not about the Howard Schneider from Long Island who was mistaken for the one who will be covered here. While this blog does not condone abuse sent towards anyone it might cover, please take this as a reminder to always check facts before reacting in any way.

Very few people enjoy their trip to the dentist. Whether it's the fear of a painful procedure, a condescending doctor criticizing your oral hygiene, or the worry that they'll discover a severe problem that requires a painful procedure in the future, the fear of going to the dentist is one that is very well earned. Even Hollywood has helped fuel this fear in the past with dentists often portrayed as sadistic individuals or the idea that every exam is doomed to be an agonizing ordeal.

Steve Martin as Orin Scrivello in Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

So when it turns out that your dentist is in fact an actual monster, that alone can be the stuff of nightmares. But when that monster is also a pediatric dentist, it becomes exponentially worse. Children depend on their parents to keep them safe, to chase away the monsters in the closet and warn them about strangers with candy. So when the danger lies in the hands of someone who is supposed to be a trusted professional, the best way to fight back is to speak out. This would lead to the ultimate downfall of pediatric dentist, Howard Schneider of Jacksonville, Florida.

For several decades, Howard Schneider practiced dentistry on children. He was the only dentist in the area who accepted medicaid and this attracted many low-income families to his practice. Allegations of malpractice starts as early as 1995, though those cases were dropped and the details aren't currently available as of writing this. However, nearly a decade later, one parent would spark enough outrage that finally drew full attention to the sadistic dentist.

In 2014, Brandi Motley brought in her 6-year-old daughter Bri'el for a tooth extraction. Bri'el was taken into the office while her mother had to sit in the waiting room during the procedure. However, when 3 hours passed and she was still not allowed in the room to see her daughter, it became clear something wasn't right. That's when one of the nursing assistants came to fetch her, informing her that there had been an accident.

When Motley was brought into the room, she was greeted with the horrifying scene of her daughter lying face-down on the ground, hyperventilating, and her blood all over the floor. The nurse told her that Bri'el had been on a papoose board, left alone for only a few minutes, and that when they returned they had found her on the floor. But according to Motley, her daughter had bruises and scratches on her body, and her mouth had been packed with bloody gauze. That was when she pulled her daughter immediately out of the office and into her car.

The scene had been enough to make Motley justifiably suspicious, but when Bri'el took the gauze out of her mouth, her worst fears were confirmed. Bri'el told her mother that Schnieder and his nurse had lied and that he had been choking her while pulling out her teeth. Motley then noticed that even though Bri'el had only been scheduled for one extraction, Schneider had instead pulled out eight of her front teeth, prompting the mother to take her daughter straight to the ER. Further examination showed that Bri'el also had a fractured nose, eye, and a bruised hand print on her neck.

Motley attempted to sue the dentist for malpractice, but the lawyer she met with, John Phillips, refused to take the case, informing her it would be nothing more than a case of he-said-she-said that she couldn't win. This did not stop her from trying to expose Schneider, so in April of 2015, Motley took to Facebook, posting the photos taken of her daughter after the procedure, as well as her account as to what happened that day.

The post went viral and soon other angered parents began speaking out about their own experiences. This led to a wave of horror stories being made public, triggering protesters to picket outside of Schneider's office as well as some much-warranted attention from the media.

Possibly the most disturbing piece of evidence to be leaked, was a video that was secretly filmed by a mother named Sherraine Christopher, who had taken her 3-year-old son, Zion, for an appointment. During this visit, Schneider ground down 16 of the toddler's teeth to be fitted for crowns (a procedure the child allegedly did not need) without using painkillers or anesthetic of any kind, nor offering an explanation to the concerned mother. In the video, Zion is seen already strapped down, screaming and kicking while Schneider and the nurse proceed, ignoring the boy's agony.

The video is still available to be seen on YouTube, but viewer discretion is advised as it is disturbing to watch.

With the evidence and outrage mounting, Schneider finally closed the doors to his practice, voluntarily surrendered his medical license, and lawyer John Phillips, who had initially refused to take on the case for Bri'el, had a change of heart and took up a total of 131 individual cases from families against Schneider. At least 104 of those cases were settled while Schneider refused any admission of wrongdoing.

Even though turning over his license spared him from a full investigation from the medical board, Schneider was not able to escape a criminal investigation entirely. In November of 2015, Schneider was arrested and charged with 11 counts of Medicaid provider fraud, alleging that he had collected over $4 million in payments from the government in five years alone. He plead not guilty and was examined by medical professionals who deemed him incompetent to stand trial. They stated he was likely suffering dementia at the time and in 2018, the State Attorney's Office dropped all criminal charges due to his deteriorating mental condition.

While there are still many who feel the former dentist should have faced time in prison for the damage he caused on so many children, Jacksonville parents can at least take comfort in the knowledge that Howard Schneider will not be operating on their children ever again.

Sources:

• ABC News: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/dentist-accused-harming-child-patients-making-millions-dollars/story?id=36528657
• Lawyer John Phillips' Official Site: https://floridajustice.com/dentist-howard-s-schneider-update-happened-incompetency-hearing/
• Action News Jax: https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/charges-dropped-against-jacksonville-pediatric-dentist-accused-of-mistreatment/708443763

Refbatch: The Russian Dancer

A Note From the Writer:

Let me open this post by saying this took so long to post for a number of reasons. The biggest being it is very hard to get any concrete information on this case as those closely involved are rarely a source of reliable information. The other is the more I've dug into this case, the more depressing it becomes. So before reading this, please be aware that I've done the best I can with my research but everything should be taken with a grain of salt. I will leave links of my sources at the bottom of this post. Whatever the real answers are, much like the case of Chip-Chan, none of them are happy. Most of this post was aided by YouTuber, Atrocity Guide, and her amazing coverage of this case. I will link her video below to check out. I would also like to state before we go any further, if you do end up looking up this user's channel, please do not harass her or mock her. I do not condone that behavior in any way and she does not deserve that.

We've all entered that part of YouTube before. Whether it's a video that seems completely random and makes no sense, or an entire channel we can barely begin to comprehend, we've all been there. Sometimes it's worth it to dig around to find out the meaning of what we're seeing. Sometimes it's a part of an ARG or sometimes it's a piece of interpretive art with a meaning we may have missed. But sometimes there are just more questions than answers and the circumstances just put a bad feeling in the pit in our stomachs. Such is the case with the YouTube user, Anna Matskevich, more infamously known as "Refbatch."

In 2008, Anna began uploading videos to YouTube of a very bizarre nature. They mostly consisted of her shouting rapidly and angrily into the camera, often while wandering the streets, as well as performing short interpretive dances in various states of undress, usually in a snowy forest. Her appearance typically involved some form of very frizzy, disheveled hairstyle, and odd combination of dance attire sometimes not worn completely (ie. arms not in sleeves, tops pushed around her waist, etc.), and heavy eye makeup stylized in an odd manner. The descriptions in her videos were usually written in very broken English with numerous typos and her actual dialogue has been known to be virtually impossible to translate as it consists of a mixture of Russian and English which is spoken so rapidly, it's hard to follow. On top of that, Anna's post history is in the tens of thousands and has spanned numerous channels over the years.

While it's almost impossible to translate what Anna says in her videos, what little has been deciphered reveals her overwhelming belief that the Russian government is watching and harassing her. She believes that she herself has fallen victim to their barbaric practices as punishment for speaking out against them.

The story might sound unlikely but Anna is not the only one making these claims. Her husband, Maxim Belov, who also runs a YouTube channel, has stated that Anna was victimized by the Russian government by being forcibly detained in a psychiatric ward against her will in order to try to silence her. Maxim's channel mainly consists of videos of his wife and in the descriptions he tells the story of her forced psychiatric treatment, along with other claims of abuse. The stories are frightening to think about if they are true, but many have come to believe that Maxim and Anna are exhibiting a condition known as "folie a deux," a phenomenon in which two people share the same delusion due to spending a significant amount of time around each other.

While the general consensus is that she suffers from paranoid schizophrenia (which is the most likely situation based on her behavior, speech patterns, and seemingly compulsive uploading), exploring her claims shines a darker light on the reality of the Russian government and its history. For example, Anna and her husband are by far not the only ones to claim to have been forced into treatment within psychiatric wards as punishment for protesting or speaking out against the Russian government. In fact, this practice has very much existed in Russia's past.

During the reign of the Soviet Union, punitive psychiatry was practiced, incarcerating thousands of dissidents in order to quiet them and prevent an uprising. Most notoriously, the USSR invented a disease called "Sluggish Schizophrenia," claiming the victim was suffering from a slow onset of schizophrenia that surfaced much later in life than schizophrenia typically would. This was used in order to explain away any anti-soviet behavior, claiming that a mentally stable person would not oppose the Soviet Union. The imprisoned dissenters, after being diagnosed, were then subjected to "treatments" such as electroshock therapy without anesthetic, insulin comas, and large amounts of anti-psychotic medication.

Despite punitive psychiatry in Russia essentially being done away with in the 90s, there have been recent claims that the practice is resurfacing. Since 2012, over 30 cases have been reportedly documented. There are varying claims as to the truth to those numbers but the Russian government, unfortunately, has a history of hiding such information, making it difficult to tell what is the truth and what is a fabrication. Given their past as well as their current regime under Vladimir Putin, this isn't entirely beyond the realm of possibility.

Unfortunately, in Anna's case, we may never know if her claims are true. Whether the Russian government is to blame or mental illness, her reality is a sad story and all one can really hope for is that she either receives actual help for whatever condition she may have or that she is and remains safe in her current situation. Currently, Anna can be found on Youtube under the username, "Youdon'tknowyouknow Youknowyoudon't."

Sources:

• Anna's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeRXV0lrOTQMKEdvcP_z0Pg
• Maxim Belov's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQU_51WSn02lHm4dCN6xVMg
• Atrocity Guide's Analysis of Refbatch (recommended watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OSReIXxyrI
• "The Cosmic Vision of Refbatch" (long): http://www.actionyes.org/issue15/wang/wang1.html
• "Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the Soviet Union"(*Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union
• "Is Soviet-era punitive psychiatry making a return?":
   https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/05/soviet-era-punitive-psychiatry-making-return-170530141852510.html

*- I am citing Wikipedia because it was a starting point to more legit sources on the history of the Soviet Union and punitive psychiatry cited throughout the page. I recognize that Wikipedia itself should not be considered a legitimate source of information and am not citing it to claim that it is as it can be edited by anyone. But since it led me to other, more informed sources, I'm giving back credit where credit is due.

Update: Comments!

I just realized I had my comments section set so only Google users could comment. I've since opened it up to anyone and wanted to add something while I'm at it:

If you have any topics you would like me to cover, requests are always welcome! The only thing I'm reluctant to cover are ARGs, mostly because with many of them there is so much to cover it could take essays and I'd probably still miss a lot of it. However, if there is one you really really want, I might be willing to take a crack at it. If you also notice any important information I may have missed or new updates to the stories of any post, feel free to let me know. I'm striving for accuracy on this blog and appreciate being told if there are any inaccuracies.

Thanks again and new post should be up soon!

"Hi, Walter...": A YouTube Mystery

When it comes to the bizarre and unnerving, YouTube is no stranger to these situations. Despite the platform's attempts to host more family friendly content to the point of demonetizing channels or videos they feel go against that atmosphere, there is still plenty of creepy content to be found. And when there is no initial explanation for said content, it only makes the discovery more unnerving and can often be  a cause for concern.

In 2009, a channel was created on YouTube simply called, "Hi Walter! It's me Patrick!" which eventually contained only contained one video titled, "Hi Walter! I got a new gf today! In the video, a man (assumedly Patrick though he never states his name on camera) opens by telling someone named Walter that he has found himself a girlfriend. He excitedly talks with a wild-eyed expression about how he met this girl at the mall and that she's very hot and attractive. He then says he wants to show her on camera, even though she's very shy and the camera cuts to what looks like a dark basement with a wooden door that's padlocked shut. The man then steps into view, unlocks the door, and a woman can be seen inside on all fours, sobbing and begging to be let go. The man steps into the room with her and after the door closes behind him, we can hear her screaming before the video abruptly ends. The channel has since been taken down, but the video has of course been re-uploaded and is easy to find on YouTube:




For a long time, the video went relatively unnoticed but began to really go viral around 2016 when the mother of a missing teen saw the footage and became convinced that her daughter was the imprisoned woman shown at the end of the video. Up until this point, those already aware of the video (particularly the Reddit community) had been busy dissecting it, many coming to the conclusion that it was fake. Aside from the cheesy acting from "Patrick," those skeptical of the video pointed out things like the fact that at the beginning of the basement scene, it sounds like the man says something along the lines of, "Action," furthering the suspicion that this was a hoax. But to one viewer, Hope Sprenger, the video looked all too real and potentially offered answers as to what happened to her missing daughter, Kayla Berg.

In 2009, only a few months before the channel's creation, 15-year-old Kayla Berg went missing after being dropped off at her boyfriend's house in Wausau, Wisconsin. In 2016, when the possibility arose that the girl in Patrick's video might be Kayla, the Wisconsin police were alerted and began immediately investigating the video's origin as well as the people behind it. They admitted that there were similarities between the missing girl and the girl in the video, causing valid concern that this was not a hoax after all. However, it all turned out to be a false alarm when Antigo police were able to identify the the creators of the video.

Leading the video and playing the role of Patrick was a man by the name of Michael Maton from Utica, NY. As for the actress, the imprisoned girl was a woman by the name of Lucy Cavo and the producer of the video was a man named Jason Derr. All three of the people behind the video were from Utica, NY and had nothing to do with the missing teen from Wisconsin. According to them, the video wasn't even intended to reference her case. Once this information was established, Antigo police issued a statement, ensuring the public that the video was nothing more than a hoax, but by that point the damage was done. Hope Sprenger was said to be traumatized when she saw the video and believed she was seeing her daughter being held captive by Maton, and this led to the creators issuing an apology for the harm they caused. However, Maton went on to blame the media for misconstruing what was meant to be a short YouTube horror film that had nothing to do with Kayla Berg's disappearance and even called it slander.

As troubling as this situation was, this is not the only time a YouTube creator has led the public to believe they had something to do with a missing person's case. In 2012, a video was uploaded of a middle-aged man laughing sadistically into a camera, winking, and the words "Happy Anniversary" appeared on the screen. The video itself was also titled "Happy Anniversary," and was posted 8 years to the day that a young woman by the name of Maura Murray went missing after crashing her car on Route 112 in Massachusetts. The uploader himself had named the channel "Mr112dirtbag" which references not only Route 112, but also Murray's father's claims that whoever had abducted his daughter was a dirtbag.  However, police investigated the source of the video and it turned out to be yet another cruel hoax.

The internet can be a disturbing place, even if you only remain on the surface web. While most would have enough of a moral compass to know when creepy content takes it too far or at least is in need of some context to prevent a scare, there will always be those who will do harm, whether intentionally or not. The story behind "Hi Walter!" can serve as a cautionary tale of how a lack of context can unfairly cause alarm to those dealing with something as horrible as the abduction of a family member. To this day, the disappearances of Kayla Bern and Maura Murray remain unsolved.


Sources on Maton and Mr112dirtbag:

• https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/hi-walter-i-got-a-new-gf-youtube-kayla-berg-investigation-396802761.html
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4286854/Unmasked-internet-hoaxer-Hi-Walter-viral-video.html
• https://imgur.com/gallery/91MAa
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2104121/Videos-taunt-family-Maura-Murray-eighth-anniversary-disappearance.html

Ruth Price: The Infamous 911 Recording of a Murder

One of the scariest situations imaginable is the possibility of a home invasion. Whether it happens in broad daylight or the middle of the night, the thought of an armed stranger breaking into your house at random, intending to do you harm, is something you may imagine will never happen to you. But you've still probably thought about what you would do if it did. Would you be able to defend yourself? Do you have a safe hiding place or a quick escape plan?

What if you're elderly, unarmed, and probably unlikely to be able to move fast enough? The first thing likely to come to mind is finding a way to call the police, but even then there is no guarantee they will arrive fast enough. Imagine then that you're the dispatcher, unable to do anything but listen to the other end and hope that help does get there in time... but it doesn't. Situations like this are what makes being an emergency dispatcher one of the most stressful jobs, and when recordings of events like this are leaked, the audience gets a taste of just how awful that job can be.

Which brings us to the story of one of the more infamous 911 calls to be leaked on the internet: the murder of Ruth Price. However there is more a little more to this story and we'll delve into that a bit.

For those who haven't heard it and are morbidly curious, this is the call in question (WARNING: the audio is very disturbing):



In case you're someone with no interest in hearing the audio, this is a brief rundown of what took place. The call begins with Ruth Price telling the dispatcher there's a strange man lurking around her property. She tells the dispatcher he came to her door, saying he was "looking for a guy" and then asked about her apartment. She sounds very uncomfortable and informs the dispatcher that she's an elderly woman and lives alone. The dispatcher asks her if she can still see the man, but shortly after she says she can't there comes the sounds of something hitting the receiver, followed by the sounds of Ruth shrieking as she's attacked and killed. As she dies, she pleads for her life, says she can't breathe and after more struggling the line goes silent.

This is one of the scariest audio recordings to be leaked and is easy to find on the internet, particularly on YouTube. But what makes this recording even more interesting is the lack of information behind it. There is little to no information that can be found on the actual murder or of Ruth Price herself. This has led many to believe that it's a fake made for shock value.

However, an unnamed Florida safety officer jumped into the conversation to offer a little more information. According to the officer, the call is used for training purposes to reinforce the importance for dispatchers to begin every call with, "911, what's your location?" Despite the fact that the calls can be traced, opening with your location can potentially help to speed up the process. But given how quickly Ruth is attacked during the call, it's unlikely that this would have saved her. The officer then went on to claim the call is 100% real and not a fake.

Unfortunately, this is still up for debate as almost no other information has led to any definitive answers. Whether Ruth Price was a real woman and the murder was genuine has yet to be solved but the possibility of this not being a hoax still adds a layer of horror to the recording.

If you would like to explore this mystery even further, the people of Reddit have researched this a little further, speculating on the authenticity and giving a little more insight on the case:

https://www.reddit.com/r/creepy/comments/3b4ks0/911_call_made_by_elderly_woman_before_she_is/

Whether or not it's real, the call still serves as a haunting reminder that no matter who you are, the unthinkable can strike at any time no matter how prepared you may think you are to handle it.

Katherine Knight

Our upbringing can shape us into the people we are today, often for the better. Katherine Knight, however, is a perfect example of what a horrific childhood can produce.

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.