https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Knight

She was the first woman in Australia to be given a life sentence without any possibility of parole.

(Edited to add the link. I did add it originally, but I guess it doesn’t post it if you also write in the body of the post? 🤷‍)

  • TheRealKuniEnglish
    4•7 months ago

    Oh, you’re right, I had mistaken it with this:

    In 1998, Knight and Price fought over his refusal to marry her. In retaliation, she videotaped items he had allegedly stolen from work and sent the tape to his boss. Although the items were out of date medical kits that he had scavenged from the company rubbish tip, Price was fired from the job he had held for seventeen years. That same day, he kicked her out and she returned to her own home while news of what she had done spread throughout the town. A few months later, Price restarted the relationship, although he now refused to allow her to move in with him. The fighting became even more frequent, and most of his friends would no longer have anything to do with him while they remained together.

    Why on earth would he get back together with her?

    I mean, I probably know the answer. He was lonely, and unstable people can be remarkably good at seducing lonely people. Like they can smell their victims. Still though.

    Edit: Oh hang on, no, this part is AFTER she stabbed him in the chest, after he told his coworkers he thought she might murder him:

    She later arrived at Price’s house while he was sleeping and sat watching television for a few minutes before having a shower. She then woke Price and they had sex, after which he fell asleep.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•7 months ago

      My reading is that this is the sequence of events from his POV:

      1. He had said that she couldn’t live with him, but they were still dating.

      2. They have a big argument, she stabs him in the chest.

      3. He goes to work, says if he doesn’t show up the next day she killed him. Coworkers veg him not to go home, but he’s worried about his kids.

      4. He goes home to find that his kids are sleeping over at a friend’s house. He hangs out with neighbors (probably to stay out of the house) until 11:00, when goes to bed.

      5. She wakes him up an hour or two later with lingerie and (presumably) and “I’m so sorry, let’s have makeup sex”.

      6. He wakes up after getting stabbed in the chest a few times, turns on the light to find that he’s bleeding, tries to make it out the front door, but either falls or is pulled back inside and dies from blood loss.

      On the whole, I’d say his actions were only foolhardy with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight.

      • TheRealKuniEnglish
        2•7 months ago

        On the whole, I’d say his actions were only foolhardy with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight.

        I’d say the waking up to a woman who stabbed you in the chest a day ago apologizing and trying to have sex with you is when you get the fuck out and call the police.

        • @[email protected]English
          3•7 months ago

          And risk upsetting her.

          He was a domestic abuse victim and was aware of the stakes. Turning her down, running away, or calling the cops could have set her off.

          What he didn’t know was that she didn’t need to be set off, she was crazy enough to kill him even if he complied and did everything he could to assuage her.