Australia, the land of sun, surf and unimaginable horror.

We're about to dive into the darkest chapter of its history.

A story is so shocking, you'll question whether it could really be true, but it is.

In a quiet town in the Hunter Valley, a nightmare unfolded, one that would haunt the nation

forever. This is the tale of Catherine Knight, the butcher of Aberdeen.

Catherine Knight. To those who knew her, she was a seemingly ordinary woman.

Born in 1955, Knight grew up in a small town in New South Wales.

She worked as a meat worker, a job that would eventually become synonymous with her name

in the most horrifying way imaginable.

Catherine was a mother, a wife, and a woman with a deep-seated rage, a rage that would culminate in an unimaginable act of violence.

John Price was a well-liked man in the town of Aberdeen.

He was kind, hardworking, and devoted to his children.

But his relationship with Catherine was anything but ordinary.

It was volatile, abusive, and marked by an escalating pattern of violence.

Friends and family knew things weren't right,

but no one could have predicted the horror that would unfold on the night of February 29, 2000. It was on that night that Catherine Knight, in a fit of rage,

stabbed John Price 37 times. The wounds were so severe that they left bloodstains throughout

the house, evidence that Price had tried desperately to escape, but he couldn't.

Catherine dragged him back inside, and what she did next would shock even the most hardened police officers.

When the police arrived the next day, they found a scene out of a nightmare.

Price's headless body lay in the home they had shared. His skin had been meticulously removed and

hung from a butcher's hook in the lounge room, but the horror didn't end there. Knight had decapitated John Price and placed his head

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