The Stomach-Churning Tale of Cannibal Katherine Knight

The True Crime Times
15 min readApr 13, 2020
Katherine Mary Knight — Source: All That’s Interesting

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

Kathy Knight — Source: New Zealand Herald

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…

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My name is Julie Fidler. I’m a writer, author, wife, and animal lover. I shed light on unsolved mysteries and shocking crimes.