Katherine Knight Slaughtered Her Boyfriend And Made Him Into Stew. Abattoir worker Katherine Knight became the first female in Australia to receive a life sentence without parole after she decapitated and cooked her boyfriend James Price. Born on October 5, 1955, in Moree, New South Wales, Knight was the product of a scandalous affair between her mother, Barbara Roughan, and her father, Ken Knight. Roughan, already a mother of four boys, met Knight through her former husband. When their secret rendezvous came to light, it rocked the conservative town they resided in. Already a tumultuous start to life, Knight’s chaotic childhood continued as such. Her father was a violent alcoholic who raped her mother multiple times a day. Knight herself also claims that she was sexually assaulted by several family members until the age of 11. In school, Knight was known as a bully who terrorized smaller children. Without ever learning how to read or write, she quit at the age of 15 to work at a clothing factory. A year later, she landed her “dream job” at a slaughterhouse cutting out the internal organs of animals. Journalist Peter Lalor wrote in Bloodstain, his true-crime book on Katherine Knight, that she loved her job so much that she hung her first set of butcher’s knives over her bed — just in case she ever needed them. While working in the butcher shop, Knight met David Kellett, a raging alcoholic much like her father who was prone to fistfights whenever the opportunity presented itself. Used to this kind of violence, Knight surprised her new beau when she joined in on one of his drunken scuffles. He soon realized, however, that Knight was capable of doing more than a little damage with her fists. Before long was finding himself being dominated by her.
In 1974, she convinced him to marry her. He was heavily intoxicated the entire time and her mother even warned him about her daughter’s temper, saying that Knight had “a screw loose somewhere.” On their wedding night, Knight and Kellett consummated their marriage three times. When he fell asleep, Knight took issue with her new husband’s premature exhaustion and started to strangle him. Thankfully, Kellett woke up and managed to fight Knight off. Even though she attempted to kill him only one day into their marriage, the union lasted for 10 more years. The marriage was, however, far from perfect. Kellett developed a nasty habit for being unfaithful, and once even left his wife and their two daughters in the middle of the night. After discovering one of Kellett’s affairs, Knight placed their 2-month-old infant on a railway line and then threatened several people with a stolen ax. She was diagnosed with postnatal depression after witnesses saw her violently pushing and swinging her second child in a stroller down a busy street. She spent a few months in a psychiatric hospital, where she told nurses that she intended to kill a mechanic who had fixed Kellett’s car because that made it possible for him to leave her. Despite this threat, Kellett took Knight back when she was released from the hospital. Their reunion didn’t last long, and Knight went through a period of deep distress after Kellett finally left her.
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