At first, Katherine Knight and John Price seemed to be the perfect couple – bubbly, charming, and adored by each other’s children.
But the relationship quickly descended into chaos as Knight unleashed her fury on him, with the jilted lover launching a horror attack which saw Price stabbed 37 times and his decapitated head left stewing on the kitchen stove.
Almost 25 years ago, the cannibal murderess mutilated and skinned her partner just hours after he took out a restraining order against her – warning his coworkers that if he were to ever go missing, it was because his girlfriend had killed him.
In scenes akin to those in horror films, Knight would leave Price’s ‘skin suit’ hanging from a meat hook in their blood-splattered home, as she prepared a dinner for his children made from the flesh left on his bones.
The brutal slaying sent shockwaves through Australia, and resulted in the butcher becoming the first ever female murderer sentenced to life behind bars without parole in Canberra.
Following her arrest, Knight was thrown into the hellhole Silverwater Women’s Correctional Centre in Sydney, where she remains to this day.
