Episode 362: Katherine Knight – Australia’s Ultimate Psycho?

On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we do some True Crime down under and talk about the disturbing case of Katherine Knight, violent murder and overall wackadoo! We structure this episode in a way where we reveal her big crazy crime at the end of the show, so if you want to have that shock ride with us, quit reading—spoilers ahead!

Katherine Knight was born to a violently dysfunctional family in Aberdeen, New South Wales in Australia (if it really exists…). Her life was tragic and horrible. Her father would rape her mother as much as ten times a day, and young Katherine herself suffered from rape at the hands of some of her brothers and step-brothers. Her mom’s response? Just “put up with it and stop complaining.” As a result of this home life, she was violent at school and a loner. Eventually, she dropped out, getting a job at a slaughter house where she would watch pigs get their throats slit while she was on lunch break—for fun.

She got promotions quickly, doing the jobs nobody else wanted, and learning skills that would come in handy later in her life. From there, she had a series of marriages and courtships with different blokes. Most relationships were bad. You know, like the man had to flee to a different town for fear of his own life, and she stalked them there taking people hostage at knife point across the Australian countryside kind of bad.

Katherine Knight got arrested for some of this, packed off to mental institution and sometimes left in as little as a day. Eventually, after a few arrests and several turns in mental houses, she met John Price. And this was the one. After some time of abuse (she stabbed him once, like you do), he eventually got a restraining order put on her, and the day he was in court, she planned her ultimate psycho night. In short, she had sex with him in new lingerie, then when he slept, stabbed him 37 times. After that, she skinned him, beheaded him, cooked him, took a ton of sleeping pills, and went night night next to his body. After plating up the dinner she fixed from his body, she left it on the dining room table with invitation cards for each of his kids to sit down and eat.

So, how bad was Katherine Knight during her earlier relationships? What advice did her own mom give to men who were marrying her? What did she do to her own daughter that got her locked up? How did she serve John Price, and did she eat any of him? What is she like now that she’s in prison? What record breaking sentence did she get from the courts? How did she keep getting away with all of her assaults and kidnappings? Listen, laugh, learn.