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Real Life Australian Cannibal Getting Her Own Movie

Today, we have news that might excite our readers that are into true crime. Odds are you may have heard about Austrailian killer Katherine Knight, but if you haven’t you’re about to get a lesson about the Australian killer in the form of a feature film from filmmakers Dane Millerd and Ross Murray based on the book Blood Stain by journalist Peter Lalor, Dread Central is reporting. Not only did the 60-year-old woman, who on all counts appeared normal to the outside world, murder her husband John, but she also chopped him up and tried to serve him for dinner to her stepchildren. When police arrived at the home to investigate a report of a disturbance they discovered John’s decapitated body, his skin drying in another room and his head bobbing in a pot of stew on the stove. That’s not all, his buttocks had been prepared with vegetables which Knight had hoped to feed to his kids. (You can

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Katherine Knight: Australia’s First Life-Imprisoned Woman

Mother…Wife…Neighbor…Murderer…Butcher…Frying pan enthusiast…possible cannibal…All of these things apply to the first woman in Australia ever to be sentenced to life without parole, Katherine Knight. Katherine was born in 1955 as the result of an affair between her mother and her married father. She witnessed rape and abuse all throughout her growing up years and it certainly left a mark on her psyche (her father allegedly attempted to rape her mother multiple times each day). She and her siblings were moved around to different family members to be raised, but nothing ever really stuck. Katherine was violent, cruel, and ruthless. The only person in the town of Aberdeen that Katherine found any comfort in was her uncle Oscar who tragically committed suicide in 1969. Katherine, in her mind, was left alone although she still maintains that she is visited by his ghost. In 1973, after growing up in these horrific conditions, Katherine eventually met and married her co-worker David Kellett. Kellett

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Apr 6, 2018

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Real Life Australian Cannibal Getting Her Own Movie

Today, we have news that might excite our readers that are into true crime. Odds are you may have heard about Austrailian killer Katherine Knight, but if you haven’t you’re about to get a lesson about the Australian killer in the form of a feature film from filmmakers Dane Millerd and Ross Murray based on the book Blood Stain by journalist Peter Lalor, Dread Central is reporting. Not only did the 60-year-old woman, who on all counts appeared normal to the outside world, murder her husband John, but she also chopped him up and tried to serve him for dinner to her stepchildren. When police arrived at the home to investigate a report of a disturbance they discovered John’s decapitated body, his skin drying in another room and his head bobbing in a pot of stew on the stove. That’s not all, his buttocks had been prepared with vegetables which Knight had hoped to feed to his kids. (You can

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Katherine Knight: Australia’s First Life-Imprisoned Woman

Mother…Wife…Neighbor…Murderer…Butcher…Frying pan enthusiast…possible cannibal…All of these things apply to the first woman in Australia ever to be sentenced to life without parole, Katherine Knight. Katherine was born in 1955 as the result of an affair between her mother and her married father. She witnessed rape and abuse all throughout her growing up years and it certainly left a mark on her psyche (her father allegedly attempted to rape her mother multiple times each day). She and her siblings were moved around to different family members to be raised, but nothing ever really stuck. Katherine was violent, cruel, and ruthless. The only person in the town of Aberdeen that Katherine found any comfort in was her uncle Oscar who tragically committed suicide in 1969. Katherine, in her mind, was left alone although she still maintains that she is visited by his ghost. In 1973, after growing up in these horrific conditions, Katherine eventually met and married her co-worker David Kellett. Kellett

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Apr 6, 2018