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The Stomach-Churning Tale of Cannibal Katherine Knight
For this story, we are venturing to the land Down Under. This Australian tale of psychopathy, hatred, revenge, and unthinkable violence is one of the most disturbing and disgusting stories I’ve ever stumbled across. It’s almost difficult to believe that such people exist.
You know how sometimes you taste or smell something super nauseating and just have to get somebody else to smell or taste it with you because it’s so bad? That’s kind of why I decided to write this case. You have to see (read) it to believe it.
Cannibal Kathy
Katherine Mary Knight was thrust into the world and a family filled with chaos on October 24, 1955, in Moree, New South Wales. From the moment she breathed her first breath, the world seemed to be against her.
Kathy was the product of an affair between her mother, Barbara Roughan, and her father, Ken Knight. Roughan already had four sons, and she met Knight through her former husband. The conservative town they lived in was mortified by the affair.
Ken was less of a husband and father and more of a barbaric heathen. He was a violent alcoholic who raped Barbara multiple times a day and brutally beat the whole family, often with belts.
Barbara frequently discussed details of the rapes with her children and told them how much she hated both men and sex. [2] Katherine was reportedly sexually assaulted by numerous family members — but not her father — until she was 11 years old. [1] These tragedies would help shape her lifelong distrust and disgust with men.
With a home life steeped in fear, instability, and a complete lack of control over her circumstances, Kathy became a notorious school bully who frequently picked on smaller children. She once attacked a schoolmate with a knife and the teacher who broke up the fight was injured in the process.
At the age of 15, Kathy dropped out of school never having learned how to read or write and took an unfulfilling job at a clothing store.
