Katherine Knight, mother, lover, and Australia's most vicious killer . . .
Katherine Knight's grotesque and calculated murder of her lover, John Price, defies imagination and horrified the hardened professionals who dealt with the aftermath.
Yet, according to the measures of our criminal justice system, the mother, grandmother and former abattoir worker was not insane when she used her tools of the trade to remove Pricey's skin and head. She was of right mind when she cooked him.
It seemed that the night of 29 February 2000 was the performance of Knight's lifetime, that she had been heading towards this moment all her life but no one had foreseen the full horror of what she could do.
Journalist Peter Lalor covered the trial and became obsessed with finding out what made this woman go way over the borderline. He talked to her three ex-partners, family and the locals of Aberdeen. He examined her background, peeling back the layers of dysfunction that seem to have nurtured her badness.
Most of the time Katherine Knight seemed normal, but like a stray dog, people said you could never tell if she'd bite or lick you to death. Her evil is all the more chilling because it is so mundane. She is currently the only woman serving a life sentence in NSW.
