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[Music] the crime scene was described as looking more like the set of a horror movie than
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real-life it was one of the most horrific crimes ever committed not only did it shock the small town of Aberdeen
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in country New South Wales it shocked the entire nation even parts of the world what could possibly drive somebody to do
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this a psychiatric illness or premeditated pre-planned pure evil [Music] Catherine Knight was born on the 24th of
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October 1955 she is a nun identical twin Catherine was the more feminine of the twins she liked to help a mummery on the
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house assist with the cooking and cleaning and like playing with the dolls Cathy Knights parents were Ken night and
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Barbara Knight who married each other in 1952 Cathy's father left school at the age of 14 to work at the abattoir in
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Aberdeen country New South Wales where he lived at the time he later met Barbara and married her they moved to
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Queensland into various parts of New South Wales where Ken continued to work as a slaughterman at the abattoir
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he was considered excellent at his job and a very hard worker Barbara had a short fuse temper she was
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hot-headed and loved using excessive foul language Barbara and Ken are in a strict household the kids did as I was
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told there was no mucking about there were six kids in the house altogether including Cathy
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after moving around to various parts of the state and interstate they finally settled back in Aberdeen in 1969
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Aberdeen is a small country Sam located in the Upper Hunter region of New South Wales about 240 kilometers which is
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about 150 miles north of Sydney the main source of employment for the people of Aberdeen at the time was the local
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abattoir there wasn't much else going on in the small country town that had a population of about 1,500 people as a
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kid Cathy wasn't allowed to have pets but she loved animals if she came across an injured animal like a bird with an
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injured wing she would bring it home and look after until it was better from a young age she showed that she had a
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fiery temper on bus rides to and from school some of the boys used to torment her and give her a hard time but Cathy
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not could look after herself she was involved in more than one fist fight with the boys at school and she could
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more than hold her and it's likely Cathy inherited a fiery temper and love a fair
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language from a mother Barbara Cathy left school at the age of 15 she had achieved only a bare minimum level of
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reading and writing skills there was only one thing she wanted to do when she left school following her
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father's footsteps and work at the Aberdeen abattoir her first application was rejected but she applied again in
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1971 and she was successful the second time she was 16 years old when she started work
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Kathy started as a general laborer mopping up the blood and cleaning up the animal flesh and carcasses she then
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moved her way up to become a slicer which she enjoyed immensely she loved a job and she was very good at it
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she was very efficient and precise with a knife Kathy took pride in her knives she always kept them in top condition as
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she grew older Kathy was described as generally kind natured and helpful with a heart of gold
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she was average looking tall slim with red hair and she wore glasses she liked to make her own clothes she was good at
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knitting she played bingo there was nothing spectacular about her at all but there
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was a dark side to Kathy a very dark side there was her fiery temper constant use of foul language and dark violent
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behavior Kathy was somebody you didn't want to get on the wrong side of she was as vindictive as anyone could be if you
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did the wrong thing by Kathy she would do everything in her power to get you back ten times worse
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it was whilst working at the Aberdeen abattoir in 1973 that Kathy met her first husband David Cal there was a
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quick romance and they quickly got married it wasn't much of a wedding they hopped on a motorbike together right to
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the local registry office which was in a nearby town called muscle Brook and then
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they celebrated the wedding with friends at a local pub Kathy was 18 at the time
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it didn't take long for David to get his first taste of the dark side of Kathy it
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was that night actually David had drunk excessively all day and he was struggling to perform to Kathy's
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liking in the bedroom when he fell asleep she woke him up by putting her hands around his neck and strangling him Kathy
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let David know she wasn't happy despite this incident the marriage actually started out quite well that kind natured
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helpful heart of gold version of Kathy couldn't have been happier but after about a year things started to turn sour
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Kathy's temper and mood swings started to take off and things got worse and worse and gradually turned very violent
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by the time Kathy had given birth to their first daughter Melissa David had had enough and he took off to Queensland
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with another woman who also happened to be pregnant to him it was 1976 this left Kathy feeling
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crushed and heartbroken but also furious she decided to take her anger out on their daughter Melissa she walked into
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the local railway tracks and left merely so right in the middle of them a local man happened to walk past at the right
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time and saw Melissa on the tracks he quickly ran down and saved her a train came through not long after that
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later that day Kathy picked up an action started swinging it around threatening numerous people police were called and
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they took her to a local hospital for a mental health assessment but she was released soon after only a few days
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later on the 3rd of August 1976 Kathy went to the house of one of her co-workers Molly Perry
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she asked Molly for help telling her that Melissa was sick and she needed a lift to the doctors Molly was only too
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happy to help Barry out and together with her mother and younger brother she put Kathy in the car to drive her to
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the doctors but Melissa wasn't sick at all soon after getting in Molly's car Kathy pulled me out of butcher's knife
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and held it up to Molly slashing her on the cheek she demanded that Molly drive her to coffs harbour which is about a
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six-hour drive away coughs Harbor is where David calots mother Jean lived caffee later admitted her plan was to
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ask Jean why David left her then kill her and then commit suicide instead though Molly drove to a nearby service
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station to try and get help Kathy got out of the car dragging Molly's younger brother out
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with her holding the knife up to him the police were called and quickly arrived they were able to disarm Kathy using
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broomsticks one of the officers received a small cut in the struggle again Kathy
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was taken to hospital for a psychiatric assessment while Kathy was being treated
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in hospital Melissa was looked after by Kathy's parents Barbara and Kim Kathy was diagnosed with a personality
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disorder when suffering from personality disorder a person can be loving and caring one minute before losing complete
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control and been capable of dangerous violent behavior the next minute David Keller was still up in Queensland at the
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time when he got a call from police about the incident he returned home and visited caffiene hospital with his
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mother dream a hearing was held in hospital on the 9th of August 1976 and it was decided Kathy could be released
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into the care of a gene and David this was only six days after the incident gene and David were given strict
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instructions to make sure Kathy took all of her medication it didn't take long for another violent incident to happen
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actually it happened pretty much straightaway as soon as they left the hospital they drove to cut his parents
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house to pick up Melissa as soon as they got there barbara stormed out of the house and attacked David she grabbed him
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around the throat and screamed at him blaming him for Kathy's breakdown Kathy responded by getting out of the
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car walking up to barbara and punching her in the face knocking her to the ground
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Kathy then stood over Barbara and screamed don't ever touch David again after this david and kathy got back
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together they moved to Queensland together and Kathy got a job as a meat slicer in an abattoir up there Kathy was
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in love with her knives so much so she asked David to mount them for her so she could keep them in the bedroom just in
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case she needed them but it didn't take long for the relationship problems to strike again
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Kathy's mood and temper was still there she was controlling and demanding and couldn't let David's affair go there
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were plenty of arguments between them and a lot of them are physical Kathy was the reason they were physical she
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attacked David with punches and kitchen pots and frying pans and anything else she could get her hands on Kathy also
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had an affair with a co-worker from the abattoir where she worked it was payback
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for David's affair David actually walked in on them in bed together but regardless she still wanted to try
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and make the marriage work and not long after him and Kathy had another baby their second daughter Natasha Kathy
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would do things like tell David to go to the pub have a few beers but then ring the pub and demand him to come home
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immediately one night when he arrived town from the pub much later than she wanted she
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whacked him over the head with a frying pan as soon as he walked through the door
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they put David in hospital but he didn't press charges not long after that during
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another argument Kathy hold a knife up to David's throat and another night when Kathy wasn't
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happy with David she bought petrol all over his clothes and set them on fire Kathie's behavior was troubling and
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becoming increasingly more violent Barbara not actually warned David at one time
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don't play up on her she'll kill you finally in 1983 Cathy again worked David over the head
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splitting him open put him in hospital yet again but that was finally the end David again didn't press charges but he
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called the marriage off once and for all Cathy responded by cleaning the house out she took everything including the
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curtains and the light bulbs but David couldn't have cared less he was happy and grateful it was finally over
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thinking there must be a God looking out for him somewhere Cathy moved back to a
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parent's farm in Aberdeen with their two daughters Melissa and Natasha Cathy returned to work at the Aberdeen
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abattoir doctoral role as a meat slicer but in 1985 she heard her back she never
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fully recovered in her employment at the Abbott our was terminated it wasn't long
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before Cathy was in another relationship this time with David Saunders who she met at the Aberdeen bowling club just
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like a relationship with David Keller her relationship with Saunders started off great both couldn't have been
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happier but that dark side that lurked in Cathy was ever-present just waiting to come to the surface one day out of
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nowhere Cathy snapped and started accusing Saunders of trading on her her unpredictable violent behavior made its
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first appearance and it would go on like that for the next three years on and off
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Cathy would be lovely and korn one day unpredictable and violent in the next during one of their arguments Cathy
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grabbed a knife and went into the backyard and killed Saunders dog she slit its throat she said she did this in
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retaliation for cylinders kicking her in the stomach when she told him she was pregnant
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Saunders strongly denies this and he says he never touched her he says she just went out in the backyard for no
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reason started going off and one of her violent tangents started making accusations about him and then slip his
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dog's throats soon after that Cathy took an overdose of pills and had to be rushed to the
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hospital Cathy always maintained it was Saunders who was the violent one towards her and
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she would only act out in self-defense and at times revenge but Saunders always denied this despite the extreme ups and
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downs of the relationship they ended up having a daughter together in 1988 in 1989 Cathy received a compensation
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payout for her back injury $15,000 in total she used the money to pay off the house that her and Saunders were living
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in effectively making it her house not long after that the relationship hit rock bottom
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several more serious arguments occurred and Cathy was even issued a restraining order against Saunders although Saunders
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maintained it was he who should have had their order against her and it was proven right when Cathy stabbed him in
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the stomach with a pair of scissors during yet another violent argument it wasn't a serious injury it didn't even
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require medical attention but it was enough to convince Saunders it was over but it didn't remain over for long they
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got back together soon after to give the relationship another go but after several more violent arguments and Cathy
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cutting up and throwing out all Saunders clothes the relationship finally ended for good
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meanwhile anything David Kellet would send to his girls like Christmas presents birthday cards flowers etc
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Kathy wouldn't give to them should we throw them out before the girls ever saw them she would then tell the girls their
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dad never sent them anything after the relationship ended with Saunders Cathy soon entered another relationship with
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John Chillingworth Cathy didn't like to be alone she always had to have someone and never took a long to find a new
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partner and just like past relationships the early days were brilliant Chillingworth says Cathy was terrific to
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be with he thought he had found the perfect soul mate they met at the Aberdeen abattoir 20 years earlier when
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Cathy had just started working there as a 16 year old but nothing happened between them then in Chillingworth ended
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up moving away and got married Chillingworth had only recently just returned to the area and that's when he
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met Cathy again as Chillingworth had been out of the area for a long time he wasn't familiar with what Woodbine near
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the legendary Cathy night stories his mates quickly filled him in but Chillingworth didn't care he was
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convinced Cathy was the one for him and not long into their relationship Cathy felt pregnant with their first child
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Cathy's fourth in or after this Cathy's true colors started to Shawn and the arguments and violent behaviour started
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after one fight she went and spent a night with her ex David Saunders and she couldn't wait to rub it in
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chillingworth's face there were also issues between Cathy Zelda stored on Melissa and
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Chillingworth Melissa didn't think much of him and the feeling was pretty much mutual Chillingworth actually admitted
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that he hit Melissa on one occasion he says he immediately regretted it Cathy made sure to take revenge on
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Chillingworth for hitting Melissa she smashed his false teeth when he had a go at her over this she responded by
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smashing his second pair of false teeth just like past relationships one minute it was on and all was good the next
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minute it was off and was filled with Lawrence Cathy gave birth to their son in 1991
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not long after their son's birth Cathy and Chillingworth got into a physical fight and Chillingworth was charged with
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assault Cathy also got a restraining order taken me out against him they separated but it didn't last long they
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soon got back together but Cathy didn't withdraw the assault charge they ended up going to court together that day John
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was put on a good behavior bond and given a fine they then went home together John was a heavy drinker which
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contributed to their relationship problems but he actually did quit and he went on to help with the Salvation Army
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and drug in the alcohol counseling it was through them in 1993 that he got a job opportunity in Queensland for two
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weeks he took the job but he liked Queensland so much that he ended up staying his initial intention was to
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have Cathy and the kids move up there but when Cathy went up to visit him another massive fight between them put
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an end to the relationship for good Chillingworth didn't know it at the time but Cathy had already started seeing a
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new man John price by Nia Cathy had been unemployed for eight years getting bought with her compensation payout and
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fortnightly government pension she had four kids two three fathers the eldest was age 17 the youngest was aged 2 John
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price is born on the 4th of April in 1955 he was the eldest of six children John price had a limited education when
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he left school at the age of 14 he could barely read and write but he was a hard
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worker he worked in heavy machinery earth-moving equipment trucking and mourning John married his wife Colleen
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and they had three children together a son and two daughters tragedy struck John prices family when his father and
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brother became involved in a heated domestic dispute his father picked up a gun and started to load it so John's
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brother picked up a gun and tried the fire a warning shot of him unfortunately he accidentally shot their
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mother the death was ruled accidental and John's brother was charged with manslaughter the loss of his mother
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devastated John he looked for a job opportunity elsewhere so he could move away any film won together with his wife
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Colleen and kids they moved to Aberdeen in 1981 John was described as an easygoing likable character who got on
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with everybody he met he had a laid-back carefree nature he would do anything for
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anyone and never expect anything in return he worked hard and loved to unwind with a beer with his mates at the
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end of a hard day in 1988 he split up with his wife Colleen they had been married for 15 years it wasn't a bitter
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separation at all to show what kind of person John was after they had separated Colleen asked him to borrow money to fix
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a fridge instead he bought her a brand new fridge another time when he found out Colleen was going on holidays he
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slipped $500 into a bank account without her knowing John was a regular at the Aberdeen hotel
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90 locals as the top pub it was one of two pubs in Aberdeen it was known as the top part Bizet's sat on the top of the
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hill the other pub in town was known as the bottom pub I'm sure you come work that here and it was at the top pub
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where John price met Cathy nought Cathy fell madly in love with John and she was
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determined to make the relationship last she was sick of her failed relationships
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she wanted this one to be forever Cathy and John struck up a conversation and that was that they became an item very
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quickly and the common theme throughout Cathy's relationships continued the first few months were described as
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fantastic both of them were very happy together it took about a year for the first major
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arguments to begin and they went on and on from there for no reason Cathy became
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deeply paranoid that John was cheating on her it seems that when David Keller treated on her back in her first
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marriage it convinced Cathy that all her future partners were going to cheat on her despite a few hiccups Cathy
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eventually moved into John prices house but he wouldn't marry her and this was a
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new sticking point in their relationship John said he loved Cathy but he wanted to make sure his children got his house
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he didn't want Cathy to be entitled to any of it that's the main reason he said that he wouldn't marry her slowly but
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surely the arguments escalated from verbal and turned physical their relationship started to
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deteriorate it didn't help when John would occasionally slip up and call Cathy his ex-wife's name Colleen
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worrying signs started to appear Cathy mentioned several times that she would kill John
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but everyone including John just that offers meaningless threats during one argument she said to John you'll
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never get me out of this house I'll do you in first but as time went on Cathy could sense the relationship was
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starting to slip away and that made her furious in 1998 she started secretly filming items in John's house she
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alleges he stole from the mine where he worked at the time ridiculous things like a can of bug spray
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an old first-aid kit that had expired things like that Cathy says she did this as John used to hit her and she made the
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video to hold it over John that if we ever touched her again she would send the videos to his boss but the truth was
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John had taught Cathy he wanted her out of his house and it was near time for Cathy to get her revenge most of the
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stuff on the video hadn't been stolen from the mine at all and what had been taken from the mine was old discarded
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junk that would have been thrown out anyway including the old first-aid kit Cathy
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sent the video to John's bosses at the mine and after they viewed it she invited them into John's house and
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pointed out all of the items to them in person the first aid kit was the downfall even though it was out of date
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and that could prove it was out of date and it was going to be thrown out anyway
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the mines sacked John 17 years of service gone just like that he had worked hard over years to put himself in
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a position that earned him a hundred thousand dollars a year and now it was all gone John immediately kicked Cathy
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out of his house but unbelievably it didn't last it wasn't long before John became lonely
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he started blaming himself for what had happened his maids couldn't believe what
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they're hearing but a few months later John and Kathy were back together but this time she didn't move back into
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John's house still his decision to get back with Cathy actually cost John some friendships and it caused drama with his
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son Jonathan who already hated Cathy before she got John sacked and you know he hated her even more when now
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discussing getting back together Cathy told John if you take me back this time it's to the death
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it wasn't long before the arguments started again and they increased in violence most of the fights this time
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were over John losing his job at the morn but John did go on to get another job Cathy was also starting to cause
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trouble with John's youngest daughter she lived with her mother Colleen but visited John and Cathy regularly John's
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son and eldest daughter had moved out of home and had their own families Cathy's
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two eldest daughters Melissa and Natasha had also moved out of home but her two youngest kids still live with her
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Kathy started telling John's youngest daughter things like John wasn't really her dad and other nasty spiteful things
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like that when John confronted her about it Kathy was doing the dishes so she lunch at him with a knife
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Kaffee stabbed him in the upper left chest John didn't seek treatment he just put a bandaid on it and never reported
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it to police the stab wound left a permanent scar towards the end of 1999 Cathy enlisted the help of a nephew and
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instructed him to steal John's car which was worth about $20,000 but it was uninsured she told her nephew two-burner
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she offered the pain five hundred dollars to do it not satisfied with hurting him financially
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Cathy later asked her nephew to throw battery acid on his face her nephew refused both requests Cathy
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later said to her older brother I'm going to kill pricy and I'm going to get away with it
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I'll get away with it because I'll make out on mad meanwhile John price desperately wanted to end the
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relationship with Cathy for a second time but he couldn't work out how there was just no way that he could see for a
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peaceful separation he was also worried that Cathy might start to target his children if he ended it during the
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afternoon of February the 27th the year 2000 another physical fight occurred during the fight John thought Cathy went
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for a knife having already been stabbed by her before he took off and sought refuge at a neighbor's house John called
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the police he had scratches all over him from the fire but Cathy had bruises as well John told the police he wanted
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Cathy out of his house she had her own place in town where she could go and stay they told him there was nothing
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they could do and he would need a court order banya the relationship had been going for six years on and off there had
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been great highs in dark clothes and that night as it happened many times before they made up after the argument
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and John went to bed at 2:30 a.m. the next morning Monday the 28th of February John woke up startled
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he could make out the silhouette of Kathy standing over him at the bed her arms were behind her back he jumped out
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of bed frightened Kathy had a knife but she didn't John went to work that day he
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recounted the last day's events to his workmates they'd never seen him so distressed he said he thought he was a
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dead man when he woke up to see Kathy standing over him with her hands behind her back that morning his boss offered
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John degan stay with him for a while but it refused that night John returned home
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and actually had a civil discussion with Kathy they agreed they couldn't go on the way they were but Kathy again
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refused to leave his house that night the police arrived with the restraining order which they served on John they
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took the order he had as a result of the fight the night before the 29th of February of the year 2000 began like
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most other days Kathy woke up early and got John organized for work she cooked him
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breakfast and made his lunch John went to work and got permission of his boss to go to the local courthouse to apply
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for his own restraining order against Kathy meanwhile Kathy went and saw her solicitor and dropped in on a few old
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friends showing them the bruises she had after the fight with John two nights ago
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she told one of her friends that bastard's not gonna get away with this I'm gonna bloody get him she made an
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appointment with her doctor and had the injuries recorded John saw the Chamber magistrate at Musselburgh courthouse
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around lunchtime he explained the relationship issues he and Kathy had including all the violent incidents he
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said he wanted to stop Kathy from being able to enter his house after telling his story the Chamber
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magistrate issued a restraining order against Kathy that night John made his way to the top pop Kathy took her
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children out for dinner after dinner she asked Natasha if her two youngest children could stay the
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night at her house Natasha agreed Natasha bean Kathy's second oldest child if you forgot jean
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lady's way home about 9:30 p.m. Kathy arrived at his place about 11 p.m. shared a key to John's house and let
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herself in but there was no fighting no arguing John didn't tell Kathy to leave instead they had sex the restraining
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orders were just words on a piece of paper at that point the next morning John didn't show up for work something
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he never did he always turned up for work he was reliable he hadn't called in nor
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letting on now he was running late people from work tried ringing him numerous times but they couldn't get a
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hold of him they even called the police to see if there had been any car accidents that morning but there hadn't
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as he was leaving for work one of John's neighbors spotted John's car still parked out the front of his house that
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was unusual John always left for work before him his car was never there at that time John's work colleagues decided
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they better call the police police arrived at John's house at about 10 past 8:00 that morning two of the
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first officers on the scene where officer Matthews I was actually working at muscle Brook that day and received a
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phone call at the station from a work matter mr. Pryce's and officer fer longer we got the call from his boss say
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that he hadn't come in and somebody bit out there isn't he was still in the driveway and they couldn't raise anybody
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you know not thinking the worst we were just thinking no he's probably going on or something doesn't woken up I knew Mr
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Price before I knew that he was a hard worker and a reliable man so it was a bit unusual for him not to turn up to
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work and not to make a phone call I went up knocked on the door didn't get an answer saw some blood on the door handle
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look for a little gap into the lounge room which was dark reasonably dark and saw what looked like a bunched up Curt
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and hanging down I couldn't raise anybody so decided to go and break into the place soon as we had this complaint
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walked around the side there was some meat lying on the ground anyway went round the back broke in through the door
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as we went in I saw straight ahead what I what I thought was a curtain there was
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something hanging blocking my entry into the hallway of the house I thought it looked like some type of blanket or some
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sort of covering that had been placed up on the archway so I remember I used my left hand push it aside and immediately
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I could feel coldness coming on my left arm so I looked down and my left arm was
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just covered in blood initially I thought I'd injure myself breaking through the back door I
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couldn't understand why my arm was bleeding I realized then it was a human felt it was a skin monster head full
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skin just hanging from the top doorframe I looked past it sort of toss on the ground that a head without any genitalia
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and my first reaction then was to turn around to Scotty and say don't looks cause that's the worst thing again say I
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looked through I could look through from there into the land room and I saw what
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appeared to be a human being or what was left and so it was at that point that I
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realized what had happened for something that I'd never seen before I never experienced I had an immediate idea of
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what had gone on it was at that point I drew my service pistol it was blood everywhere a lot of blood out from the
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door into the kitchen area there's a pot on the stove I think I might have even said to Scotty I'll give you one guess
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with a DS on the table there was a couple of plates that had meals prepared vegetables and meat cooked sitting there
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sergeant Farell owner was talking to me saying it's gonna be all right we've gotta keep going we've got to finish
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this we've got to do whatever it takes he was talking to me and I was trying to hear if I could hear anybody else
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because sometimes a little bit under stress you get that auditory exclusion and you're not hearing things you just
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focused on the threat it was quite a frightening experience but once you've stepped into that
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situation that's just no backing out so we went to search the place and we went up the hallway we heard what appeared to
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be someone's snoring coming from one of the bedrooms so we knew there was someone alive in the house looked in
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there and there she was lying on the bed tried to wake her she was obviously drugged on something and couldn't wake
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it properly she was very groggy she wasn't responding so we carried her outside and put her onto the back lawn I
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wasn't sure she had tried to kill herself with sleeping pills or whatever but she certainly wasn't injured in any
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way now handcuff Kathy and tried to question her but they couldn't get any sense out
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of her there was some empty blister packs located and they worked out Kathy had tried to kill herself by overdosing on
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tablets an emulator is called and she was taken a hospital where she was kept in a psychiatric ward
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obviously police say gray fees for Kathy's youngest children after a frantic period of searching they managed
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to locate them safe and well at Natasha's house crime scene of us RP DiMaggio was then called to examine the
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scene I got a phone call from V kg which is police radio telling us there had been a murder I said to the operator
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well had an hour to murder and they said well he's been decapitated we came in through the laundry at the back of the
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premises and there was an aroma and it was well it's quite a Mack ARB thing it was sweet odor a nice odor as if mum was
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cooking us you walk inside and one of the first things you see is mr. prices skin or Pelt hanging from the door from
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a meat hook I searched through the through the Pelt for mr. prices genitals further into the kitchen you could see
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blood staining on certain items and into the lounge room there was a body further
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down the hallway there was blood staining going into the bedrooms you could see where I think mr. price had
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gone for a light switch there's blood staining on the light switch and also blood that he is coughed
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or something on the wall you could see the expiration mark on it but as you go out towards the lounge room these
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bloodstains are getting heavier and heavier his big swipes ways blood-soaked himself and sliding against the wall
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they're also getting lower it comes to a combination at the foyer areas just to come to his injuries he's actually open
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the front door and there's blood splatter on the screen so he's nearly made it out not that it would have
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helped him he would have died certainly you just see the enormity of where it starts in the bedroom and progressively
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gets worse and worse do you get to that point where he's died the blood pool was
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the width of the hallway which was 1.2 meters wide when we examined the body you could see
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the body has been there in its entirety there's a big stain on the floor where the head would have been it's been
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skinned first you can see it she placed the skin on the carpet to sit it there and it's quite a substantial staining
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there's also an outline of the head so she's taken the head off there you can see that she's walked in carrying it
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into the kitchen there's this drip drip drip of blood all the way leading to the
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cooktop but until we actually lifted the lid off it wasn't confirmed to me it was
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a statement she had cut the gluteus maximus off his backside it's it's a big muscle and she's cut that into five
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different steaks and she's cooked them bake them in the oven two of them were on one plate two on another plate and
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the fifth was out for the dog I believe it wasn't touched but the meals they were like a trophy
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and they had the names of each person who was supposed to get them there were two prepared meals on the table complete
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with meat and vegetables a piece of paper was placed next to each meal a name was scribbled on each piece of
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paper one was for John's son the other fairies youngest daughter officer Massey Oh then examined the rest
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of the scene and collected all of the evidence it didn't take long for news of the murder to spread there were a few I
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told you so's and I knew she was capable of that amongst the Aberdeen community during the course of their investigation
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police found that after Kathie had murdered John she cleaned herself up and drove into town and withdrew $1,000 from
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his bank account to this day it's unknown what she did with that money Kathie was charged with the murder of
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John price in a special bedside sitting in the psychiatric ward of the hospital she was being holding on the 7th of
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March 2000 when interviewed by police she denied having any knowledge of your John's death although she did admit she
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was responsible for his death she claims she had amnesia and couldn't remember how it happened it became clear to
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police after speaking with Kathie that she was intending to me on a defense of battered wife syndrome the she committed
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the crime due to years of being the victim of severe domestic violence police got to work investigating that
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angle and as you've already heard they quickly realized that yes Kathie had been in some extremely violent
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relationships but she was the cause of that violence she wasn't the victim of it Kathie was examined by numerous
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psychiatrists they determined yes Kathie suffered from personality disorder but a personality disorder is
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not actually considered a sock illness they found Kathy's violence and rages were just part of her nature part of her
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makeup she got a sick sense of enjoyment out of what she did Kathy's claims that
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she couldn't remember anything about the crime were dismissed she was basically putting on a show it was found that her
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actions were premeditated and the timing was planned she knew exactly what she was doing she wasn't suffering from a
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psychiatric illness at all she was just pure evil Kathy initially pled not guilty and her
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trial started on the 15th of October 2001 the judge assigned to the case was the Honorable Barry O'Keefe at no time
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as either a barrister or as a judge did I ever strike anything of the horrific nature of Katherine Maronites case she
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pleaded not guilty and the trial began in the conventional way she sat in the dock
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she was quite small and impressive in a crowd you'd certainly never notice her [Music]
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before the trial got going Cathy surprised everyone and changed their plea to guilty I was somewhat nervous
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about this because I was concerned that if I took a guilty plea sentenced her she would then appeal to the Court of
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Criminal Appeal and say she was insane at the time that she made the plea of guilty I decided that I should get a
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court expert to examine her and the psychiatrist came to exactly the same conclusion as the other psychiatrists
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that had seen it namely that she was not insane she was quite sane but she was a
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bad woman a sentencing hearing was held and all of the grisly evidence was heard
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throughout the whole of the evidence it didn't matter what the witness said she didn't look at the witness it didn't
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matter what the photograph or video was she didn't look at that she sat looking straight ahead
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absolutely impassive there was never a sign on her face of any reaction to any of the evidence at one point during the
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sentencing hearing when some of the graphic details were being presented to the court
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Cathy broke down she started rocking violently back and forth and started screaming she then jumped down to the
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floor and started thrashing a beer but she wasn't fooling anybody when she wanted an adjournment she manipulated
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her behavior so that she got it there after she resumed the same men that she had before but I didn't think that she'd
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switched off in sentencing the judge fee on that Cathy's suicide attempt wasn't a
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genuine attempt he didn't believe that she couldn't remember anything about the crime he determined she knew exactly
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what she was doing she acted with planning and premeditation she had openly said many times she was going to
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kill John she had even said she would get away with it because people would think she was mad the judge found out to
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be vengeful valen and believed she was an extreme danger to society he dismissed her claims of battered wife
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syndrome finding out the evidence clearly showed she was the violent one in her relationships as a result Cathy
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Knight became the first woman in Australia to be sentenced to imprisonment for the term of her natural
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life no possibility of parole to sentence any person to life imprisonment is a big thing to sentence a woman to
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life imprisonment for me was an even bigger thing this was as bad a case as you got so she had to go to jail for the
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term of her life she'd shown no remorse she hadn't acknowledged that she had any
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problem at all such a person if released is not unlikely to do the same again there's a real prospect of it
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the detective in charge of the case was Detective Bob wells when I was interviewing Catherine you can catch
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someone's eye and you say to yourself I'm being bullshitted here it's a combination of catching their eye
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catching the expression on their face that you know that this person is feeding you only what she wants to feed
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you and that's why I still believe that Catherine would now be able to provide information as to what took place and
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why it took place after a while of doing jail time Cathy said that she'd finally
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found peace and she was enjoying her time but she obviously didn't like the idea of spending the rest of her life
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there because she appealed to the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal she claimed her sentence was too harsh
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thankfully the court rejected her appeal and she will spend the rest of her life
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behind bars to this day she has never given a reason for what she did or why she did it
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and she has never shown any remorse [Music] you [Music]