I'd never hit a woman, but if she killed a defenseless puppy or stabbed me in the back... yeah, I'm punching that bitch because she isn't a woman at that point; she's a damn demon.
I don't care how many times she's stabbed you, YOU NEVER HIT A WOMAN. Edit: when reading the above, please at least entertain the possibility that it may be parody.
The greatest tragedy here, is that since no one intervened early on, not only did her offending get progressively worse, her poor children were at her mercy their entire childhood. I can't imagine this cruel and vindictive woman showered them with empathy. Children don't have the power to just leave. This is how abuse becomes inter generational. We have to look out for the children.
She had already tried to dispose of her first baby on the tracks. I don't imagine she suddenly became a loving doting mother after that. And the poor kids of her last boyfriend. I feel so damn bad for them.
I completely agree! But I agree with Simon too tho! It's not an excuse...They have to take some responsibility too...I grew up in a really abusive house...but my kids haven't...it ran in the family until it ran into me! We control our future...
As a man who has had to report domestic abuse i can confirm that yes, you definitely get ridiculed for it and in my state, get treated like a criminal trying to hide his own crimes by gaslighting his partner.
Many hugs to you! Male victims of domestic abuse certainly get the short stick when it comes to reporting and getting anything done about it. I hope you are in a better place now.
Sorry to hear man... In my case I was attacked, broke my nose by kneeing me in the face and then literally tried to bite my thumb off... And then I spent the night in jail for all that... It's a broken system that's for sure.
@@HaYlEeXx19 she called the cops and told them I attacked her. When I heard her calling the cops I thought, good, I'll sit here and they'll clearly see I'm all fucked up and she'll get in shit. Right? Ha... My mistake was... Well I mean she was a mistake, clearly... But anyway when she was trying to chew my fucking thumb off I did punch her in the face to get her off, I was yelling, and trying to pull away, I pulled her hair she wouldn't let go. I could feel her teeth getting deeper and I finally just reacted after a big wave of pain hit... I hate that that happened but WTF was I supposed to do... So the cops just believed her story over mine. I was the male in a domestic dispute and that was that. As to why she attacked me in the first place? In short she was bipolar and liked to play her little games which I was done with... We were out for drinks, got late. I had to get home because the last train leaves downtown, she invites me to her place instead. I reminded her that there are no trains soon and that that would mean I would be crashing at her place. She agreed. Ha... No joke about 3 minutes after the last train leaves she tells me "okay, it's time to leave"... I remember just staring at her incredulously... But I had known her for quite a while. We actually lived together for awhile at one point before this. I was more mad at myself for not seeing her bullshit coming. I just said "really?" She's like "yep" with a little smirk... "Okay, thanks for this, guess I'm walking" and I got up off the couch, proceeded to the door and began putting my shoes and jacket on. Winter by the way... While I was knelt down tying my shoe I guess her bipolar kicked in because she was mad I wasn't gonna play her fucked up little game. She wanted drama is what it was... she jumped up off the couch sprinted across the room to the door (small downtown apartment) and kneed me in the fucking face... Hour later I was in jail with assault charges, a broken nose and a fucked up thumb. No charges on her whatsoever... And I asked, they just ignored me. In the end everything was thrown out of court, turns out I was not the first guy she did this same shit to... Fucking psycho. If a woman EVER hints at being bipolar. RUN... Run far and fast and NEVER look back...
Don't hit a woman after she hits you? In the words of my late grandmother, "If anyone ever hits you, boy or girl, you hit back." She was a strong supporter of equal rights.
as someone with borderline personality disorder, i just want to say that this lady definitely has more than bpd going on. I don’t want anyone to think this is what most people with bpd are like, we are not like this.
Agreed. She has a few traits more in sync with ASPD or at the very minimum some sort of fetish, a paraphilia. She reminds me a lot of another very famous case: Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer was one of the few on record that scored very low on the test for psychopathy. Compared to Ted Bundy, who was one of the highest scores ever known on the Hare Psychopathy Checklist , 39/40, Dahmer was a lightweight. Low 20's. You need to score 30 or higher to be a full fledged psychopath. And for further reference, Aileen Wuoronos also was diagnosed with BPD, but they also gave her the test. (The fact that both Bundy and Wuoronos ended up in prison in Florida is just a weird coincidence, but the world has the State of Florida to thank for having enough experience to know to give them the test.) It proved there was more going on with her than just BPD. 32/40. Just behind Ted. Dahmer is believed to have had BPD, which is often overlooked as a diagnosis in males: it manifests itself a little differently in boys. The root is the same, but a man is more likely to get in a bar fight or act up or act out. Most do not become domestic abusers any more than any other population; in fact, they often act more like a silverback gorilla and rip stuff up during BPD fueled fugues. Dahmer as a kid most likely inherited his condition in part from his mother and also from the fact that his family environment was very unhappy and often neglectful of his emotional needs. He had severe dissociative episodes. Schizotypal disorder was also believed to be part of his makeup as the disconnect with reality was too strong to be only BPD: the man was obsessed with dissection and the connection between sex and violence for him is NEVER typical of BPD. This woman was VERY unwell. At least as unwell as Dahmer and had a bit of something extra going on like Wuoronos. And as for BPD as a diagnosis, some violence may be involved. But not PREDATORY violence. Like I said, men with the condition usually have mothers, sisters, even wives that have all their limbs intact. They will go bonkers if anyone even alludes to harming them. Women may have an unquenchable fear within them. They don't know when they have gone too far, unfortunately.
Read that female psychopaths often are borderline plus the distinct psychopathic traits. That and clinicians tendency to not expect females to be psychopaths and thus have a bit of a blindspot you can easily see how and why she could've been misdiagnosed as BPD.
@Dr. Bright I'm just commenting on an open forum. A shame your masculinity's so fragile that you have to resort to insults when a woman expresses an opinion.
Just an interesting side note: When she pled guilty the judge adjourned the case to have her assessed by several psychiatrists who all confirmed that she was sane and was able to fully comprehend her trail. This was to ensure that she could never appeal her sentence based on diminished capacity in the future.
Good on that judge, a very intelligent move cause I imagine with her demeanor now there could be some serious wiggle room for her to get a parole back in the deck.
It's often required by both sides. Both protects the defendant and the prosecution. Should only surprise us when it's a Knight or a Gacey and if they do not get such a psychiatric review.
She absolutely had a better chance of getting away with it because she was a woman, because the idea that a woman can be so violent and successfully so against men is unimaginable by so many.
Sexism hurts both the sexes I'm afraid. The double standards our society puts in place for both genders is horrific and pointless. I doubt Jeffrey Dahmer would have gotten away for as long as he did had police officer's bigotry views towards gays not clouded their judgment. A viewpoint only instilled due to a traditional toxic western view of masculinity.
Simon, if Kellett had taken the baby, Katherine could have called the police, and had Kellett arrested, when she'd have found out his address in court. The courts would definitely come down on the mother's side back in the 70's and 80's, especially if she had alleged Kellett was abusive, and our mental health facilities and procedures have never been great... Edit: The first men's domestic violence shelter only opened in 2021 in Queensland. Resources for men who suffer domestic violence are thin on the ground unfortunately.
I had to leave after 10 years. I lost everything except my kids. It sucks, but I'm alive. I'm still trying to get on. The struggle is very real. It sucks more when your own family doesn't understand/care/believe you and disowns you.
@@eadweard. and yet it keeps occuring so why not shed some light on it. What exactly is your problem here. Like you're actually generally having a go over me saying you shouldn't abuse kids?
@@travismiller1491 Hopefully I'm not having a go at anyone. My only point is that those words - "Don't abuse children" - do not need saying. No one is unaware that they shouldn't abuse children. The ones who continue to abuse simply do not care.
I met Katherine Knight 7 or 8 years ago, and we actually had a bit of a laugh together....let me explain... I am a technician whose job is repairing office equipment, and my company used to have the contract for Correctional Services in Sydney, including Silverwater Prison. I had a job to do at the maximum security section of the womens prison. A few days before this, I had seen a tv doco on Knight, which mentioned that she was at this prison. You have to be escorted by a large guard once inside the grounds, and I mentioned the doco to him, and he explained that yes, she was in this section of the prison. Walking across the grounds, there was a building with a cyclone wire fenced compound at its rear, inside of which an inmate was operating a forklift right near the fence. Our eyes met, and she called out "hows it going" to which I replied, "great thanks, yourself? She replied,"Oh, I''m fantastic". I said that its a shame about the weather, as it had been raining for 6 days in a row, and she replied, "oh I dont care about the weather, I''m always happy". I said "good on ya" as we both laughed. The guard and I walked on another 20 meters, and he said, "well you wanted to know if she was here, and now you"ve had a laugh with her. I said what do you mean, and he said "That was Katherine Knight, on the forklift" I spun around and looked closely and sure enough it was her, although she had put on a fair bit of weight from the old pics of her in the media, so I did not recognize her at first. I was so stunned and it felt so surreal, after watching the doco only a few days before. I had just had a chat with probably the most disgusting killer in Australian history.
In terms of reporting domestic abuse, I think it's equally difficult for men and women to report it but for different reasons. For men, there's stigma around it and the whole thing of felling like less of a man and the idea that it's not possible, while for women, there's the fear that you won't be believed or be called hysterical and there's also a lot of victim blaming.
I ain't ashamed to admit that an ex used to batter the crap out of me because I wouldn't hit back (would of walked but she was pregnant) One day when she went to the police with some crap about me attacking her, the police banged on my door at 4am nicking me for ABH. What she didn't know is that every mark she left on me, I took a pic so had quite a collection. I showed the police what I'd put up with for a year, they let me go with no charges.......and then didn't see my boy until he was 14 years old so even though I thought I'd got 1 over on her, I missed 14 years of my boys life.
I know a guy who got out of an abusive relationship a few years ago. She's still causing him problems in the court system (she lied in court, it was proven, about him abusing/stalking her). Sometimes I donate to men's DV shelters, they're not anywhere near as common as ones for women (last I looked there were like 4 total in the US). If I were to beat up my bf, there's a good chance he'd be arrested for DV even if he hadn't hit back. Likewise, if I were the one who needed a shelter, there's one across town just a few miles away. If he were the one to need a shelter, he'd have to travel across two states, hundreds of miles away. That just doesn't seem right to me. Many times I've seen chicks just casually smacking their bf/husband, and it's treated like nothing. "Oh, he's bigger and stronger and can take it", that's what people excuse it with, never considering that the emotional aspect is damaging, the disrespect or devaluation of a person, regardless of whether there is lasting physical harm.
I completely disagree with the whole "men should never hit a woman" thing. I mean, no one should ever hit anyone. But, if you're being abused you should 100% defend yourself with as much reasonable force as possible. Don't take that shit just because "you shouldn't hit girls".
100% nobody should ever use physical violence towards another person. It doesn't matter if you are a man or woman, if you put your hands on me I will put mine on you to stop it from happening again.
Whether you try to simply restrain her as Simon suggests (harder than you think) or hit back, you'll be arrested and charged all the same thanks to the Duluth model. With that in mind: do whatever it takes to defend yourself. Better than not even being around to appeal the jail sentence.
Fr. Having tits doesn’t mean you can’t kill or injure someone. That kind of attitude is why so many men casually accept being the victim of domestic abuse. It doesn’t matter what sex or gender you are, abuse is abuse. Full stop.
I don't know, as a woman, if I ever hit a man first (which I never have, btw), I'd fully expect them to defend themselves... You should never hit your SO period, but if they hit first you have a right for self defense.
Wish you had been the cop when my mom attacked my stepdad with a baseball bat. (She had undiagnosed mental issues) He fought her off called the cops and the cops arrested him.
Glad someone said this. I hate that antiquated mentality. It's a pretty simple standard anyone should adhere to: If you assault someone, prepare to be assaulted back, regardless of gender. Don't like that? Don't freaking assault anyone.
You may have the right to fight back, but that doesn't mean normal people won't think badly of a man assaulting a woman as self defense. It's all wishful thinking. At the end of the day, the public will prefer to side with a woman until it's way too late and irrevocable damage is done.
@@Wheres_my_Dragonator domestic violence, sexual assault, and murder. Three crimes that society likes to believe women don't do or if they do do them will make excuses for.
For her mother to warn her FIRST husband that she'd kill him, there must be additional psychotic behavior in her earlier relationships that we don't even know about ... but Mama knows
Jeez learn what psychotic means before just throwing around that word. Psychotic means someone experiencing psychosis which means a cut with reality aka hallucinations/delusions etc. It's a symptom of schizophrenia but everyone can experience it through drug induction (ecstasy for example), sleep deprivation, sudden blood loss, severe physical/psychological trauma, heat stroke, dehydration...
My exes mother warned me about her the first time i met her. I thought it was strange but should have listened. Four years of hell and abuse followed before i eventually woke up and left. I'm still mentally traumatised by it. Always listen to your gut feeling and never ignore the red flags. Ignoring red flags to see the good in people will cost you later.
I was in highschool at the next town over when this happened, one of my best friends at the time was loosely related to her. I also dated a girl who was loosely related to her and lived in the same town. Absolutely rocked the area when it happened, everyone was in a state of disbelief... kinda that "this sort of thing doesn't happen here!" mentality. One thing that really bothered me about this case, aside from the obvious gruesome details, was that the sentencing judge made special mention about it being a woman he was sentencing and how hard it was for that reason. I mean...come on mate, you shouldn't be a judge if something like gender can effect your judgement.
Except when politicians decide to appoint more females into political positions of power. They have a quota for women and LTGB regardless of the irony of equality they champion. This mentality has trickled down through to the corporate sector who use it as a marketing strategy to promote false sense of equality. This is my view from personal experience being bullied into writing favourable reviews in recruiting female and non white employees to satisfy quotas which attract government funding benefits for private institutions. Then when poo hit the fan and the female employee can't perform as promised the blame is projected towards the reviewer who failed to see through the cracks. The system is a failure on all levels. Gender politics does exist.
@@kathrynmonaghan3245 yeah, my dad is a police officer and I did several performances in Scone during my highschool years and my dad would tell me about the case because we were so close to where it happened
As a woman I say: Equal rights equal fights. If a woman is coming at you to throw hands you get to at least throw one back. And If she has a knife you have full rights to knock her out
@@zosoplant5108what about when a 6ft man towers over a 5ft woman? Or how about equal heights and weights? How about when the woman towers over the male? So, what you're saying despite gender differences is that you can't defend yourself against an attacker? That's what you're really saying and I just can't with people who condone abuse.
The baby thing should've definitely kept her in longer, but like... cutting your coworker and holding them hostage so you can go _murder three people_ didn't put her in a mental hospital for the criminally insane!?! Australia let every one of her victim's down. It constantly amazes me how people can ignore warning sign after warning sign.
If she'd done this stuff in the US, she wouldn't have been out in time to kill Mr. Price when she did. Carjacking and kidnapping are among the most serious Federal felonies.
Keep in mind a lot of this happened in the 1970’s. Things now are definitely different, probably because of cases like this. Mental health and correctional services have changed a lot in all countries since then.
Back in those days there was no such thing as mental health. There was crazy and not crazy. The 90’s for us was when this started to be a thing and domestic violence is still the biggest killer amongst woman and children. Given the alcholic culture in Oz it makes this much worse and in the 00’s men still belived a womens place was in the kitchen and likely still do. I moved back to NZ as i found that part of the culture to much to handle being a sucsessful female. Got sick of the shit i always got from men.
It being the 70's aside, mental health support in Australia has been pretty piss poor until the last few years and even then it's just better and not what I'd call good. The whole system is incredibly fractured, and only a few dedicated hospitals exist, many of those not built until the 80's, the majority of which are urban (of which the entire area Aberdeen is in, most definitively not, closest city worth mentioning is Newcastle, what's like 2 hours away and even today has abysmal mental health support). There's really no government level support for dealing with mental health issues. There's funding, sure, but it's given to dozens if not hundreds of small independent organisations.
I'm surprised neither Simon nor Callum, in detailing her abusive childhood, mentioned that *she had a twin sister* who had no record of bullying, beating, stabbing, flaying, and/or dismembering and cooking anyone. Or did she?
mADOLF pHITLER at 15:18 modeling as simon discusses the perfection of children. How long will this video stay up for once this is bought to his attention? mADOLF pHITLER are forboden words on here so I suspect his image being used to illustrate his perfection as a child has not been done deliberately, far to much soy in simon for it to be perposefully done, but i bet his editor knew exactly who that child is bahaha awesome work slipping that into simons video for sure
Bro at this point, I wouldn't care about gender, love, being proper or whatever, I would rain hellfire on her ass. The sheer restraint required to not straight up beat her ass half to death after that will never be achievable to me.
Hindsight and being able to distance yourself from the situation make it really easy to point out errors. Unfortunately present time decision making is often done out of impulse
@@slayingroosters4355 I've been in a relationship with a very manipulative person. You're absolutely right about that, at the time I didn't even realize it. Only after I was apparently not good enough anymore or just not interesting, idk, but I spent time with a friend I hadn't seen since getting together with her (because she didn't like me spending time with him, he liked to drink, and she hated that). He then pointed out to me everything that was wrong... Only then I really realized how fucked up that all was....
@@adenkyramud5005 I’ve been in a similar situation myself and usually am quite a bubbly loud person. For years I wasn’t myself. As soon as it had finally ended and I could look back wondering why on earth I stayed but at the time it was, she needs love, she needs support (anything for her nothing for me basically). I wasn’t allowed to see my friends or go anywhere without her because I had been out at work all day (she stayed at home or went to see her friends all day). My current girlfriend always tells me off for asking permission for stupid crap and would do anything for me so I’ve definitely come out of the situation much better off. I’m glad things worked out for you too! 👍🏿👌🏿
I knew a guy that grew up in a small town with a pig slaughter house. The citizens regularly rotated who would work at the slaughter house, to minimize the negative psychological impact of killing and butchering animals day after day.
Dont they use they automated bolt gun so no one is actually doing the killing? The animal walk straight in to it and the doors close and the others lined up cant see and as its cruelty free they feel no panick or pain and no noise is produced for the others to hear and freak out. It all very orderly and sress free thank goodness. I have no problem with the butchering part and have done it many times. Just not the killing. Most places never see or hear any live animals, just see the carcess coming through.
@@Bellenickna I'm going to guess small town that's a nope. Does raise questions about how farmers did butchering in the pre industrial era and what psychological impact that had on them
@@Bellenickna we took our apprentice chefs for a tour of the abattoir and fish suppliers, the cattle do go into a chute where they are shocked (out of view of the other cattle), then the drop into the line, first job is a guy who has to slice the throat and get in to sever the aorta, its a pretty up close job, and the way its setup it was one guy that did that one job all day...
A childhood classmate of mine ended up on a rabbit farm, harvesting rabbits with a hammer for their brains. He was pretty much the same before and after.
One of my friends was domestically abused by his partner and tried to report it several times and once got laughed at by a cop. He ended up losing a couple of fingers before the cops took it seriously and he considered himself luck that they did. It is still a serious problem for men reporting violence against them.
@@Hromovlad1 dearie there's a lot of ways that oppression works. Men have their fair share of struggles that need to be addressed. Women's issues are unique and also important. Ever heard of the death penalty for abortions? The number of female and AFAB rape victims that are ignored? The general inequality and condecension towards women in technical fields? It's not black and white and *one* issue isn't going to prove or disprove that women are oppressed (and, I personally find that word has become a buzzword, there are a lot of women's issues that people neglect that could be labelled oppression). Society is a fickle beast and trying to push back against real concerns because someone *might* have it worse defeats the purpose of social reform. It needs attention for, and from, all sides.
@@Battledongus My guy I was just trying to point out to the person I was replying to that women do have issues because they seem to think they don't. I'd like to note that I am a strong proponent for and activist of men's rights when it comes to parenting, abuse, rape, and body image, but it's also important to note that these issues exist for *everyone*. I'm leaving this comment section now because I got horrible social anxiety and I don't want to deal with people thinking I don't give a shit about men's issues when I want to make the world a better place for *everyone*. Not enough spoons.
Thank you for talking about male victims of DV. It is woefully under-reported. The Centers for Disease Control even did a study and found that Domestic Violence is roughly 50/50 between the sexes. The resources for male victims of domestic violence globally are incredibly low. Many centers are dedicated to women, even when federally funded in the US, which is illegal. There is a victims shelter for men in Canada that received a lot of criticism and outrage during development and construction. I donated as much as I could to help them out.
If you're of even a remotely sensitive disposition, you'll wanna skip this one. You can't unhear it. I remember being 8 years old, going to a farm to pick out a new dog. I think this had just happened and I could hear the breeder describing the whole thing to my parents in gory detail (you know, as you do when making small talk.. in the presence of children) and it really traumatised me.
@@blackhat4206 They say the person you are when you're 5 years old is who you are forever. We're conditioned in the same way that dogs are, incidentally. You've gotta be careful what you do around children.
@@frankcooke1692 Indeed. It is a horrible shame for one’s earliest memories to be so traumatic, even greater for the scars that trauma will undoubtedly manifest in the future. I’m sorry you had to hear these grisly details at a young age, and I can’t imagine how that would shape a young mind.
Yeah, no. My mom taught me "Never let anyone disrespect or hurt you no matter what they look like. And don't you dare disrespect others." A woman can do serious damage, especially with a weapon. I watched 2 fights in high school where dudes didn't defend themselves. One ended up with a broken nose, the other with stitches and serious damage to his testicles.
As someone with Borderline Personality Disorder, I think it's important to note that people with BPD are not like this at all. It's not touched on a lot in this episode, but it's of course a stigma because the words sound scarier than what the disorder actually is. Just like many, many murderers claiming to "hear voices" as a way to excuse their disgusting behavior because of the stigma behind Schizophrenia. I just really want to note that people with BPD (and many other mental disorders), may have incredibly intense emotions, but we are also some of the most empathetic and warm-hearted people you will ever meet.
You’d have to be incredibly stupid to pull the insanity card since that effectively means you’re never getting out and you’ll be pumped full of Thorazine to keep you docile.
You know what? Thank you. I have a bipolar disorder and it feels like every person I see who have committed crimes has the same diagnosis. I live with the illness and I work my ass off to try and break the mold in my family and to be the best mother that I can possibly be. My goal since my children were born is that I break the shitty cycle my family has gone through for generations. Just because BPD is a frequent diagnosis with criminals, it doesn’t mean that every one of us is going to go out and murder someone. Andddd, I’m finished with my soap box :)
@@kathrinen3834 That is amazing! I know exactly how hard attempting to break an awful cycle with a mental illness can be, and I can just imagine your strength - between motherhood, bipolar disorder, and what you grew up in! You are so incredibly strong and I am positive your family is so proud of you. We may be dealt some crappy hands, but we will rise above it and change the way society views people with mental illness one day (soon, hopefully)!
(Sorry i couldn't resist my ADD got the better of me so I've edited out the typos, changed grammar, added a caution and tried to shorten words 😘) Soooo..... Thankyou for sharing 🙂 Any mental health problems are terrible for the sufferers and I hope with all my heart you overcome the roller coaster of emotions and stress you live with every day. Have faith that with support & true friends life becomes less intimidating & you will find people that love you for exactly who you are. I've heard due to the stigma of borderline its being renamed in the DSM. Mental health stigma is awful but we stand up with our heads high, we do our best, we treat people with respect & we show the world we are just as valuable to society as those without the experience we unfortunately have had. I don't have BPD but I've met people with the condition & they struggle terribly, I've only known them to harm themselves not others. I have depression, anxiety, inattentive ADD & thanks to being raped by a co-worker PTSD - all exacerbated by an abusive 15yr marriage & the mental & emotional abuse that came with that. So I can't speak for you & what you're feeling but I"m behind you 100% no matter what (unless you leave your baby on a train track ;) because ultimately all we want is a tribe to belong to, to want us, to feel needed or useful, its what every single person on the planet needs regardless of their mental health. The lonliness that comes from having mental health issues is horrendous, I truly wish you all the happiness in the world. If you don't mind me suggesting I found a lot of comfort in Buddhist teachings, its so simple & makes life so easy to understand. If you're open to it PLEASE look for a book called "THE DHAMMAPADA". Its a collection of short verses eg "Hatred is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die" in short it only hurts us. There's short sayings that are applicable to absolutely every aspect of life. If you're religious don't worry, its not heresy, the buddha was a man not a god & buddhism respects all religions as long as they don't promote harming oneself or others. Please do look it up "THE DHAMMAPADA", if I had your address I'd send you mine 🙂 (SAFETY NOTE DO NOT reply with your address!!! Unless its a PO Box??? Actually best get one yourself, they are cheap) But now I must put the brakes on my ADD & stop writing, so Good on you for speaking up for yourself & others. You are brave, intelligent and I admire you for it, as I'm sure many many others do. You need to love yourself & treat yourself like you would treat your own child x (But not like the nutcase kathy did here in this video though 😉) ❤
Katherine i don't know where you are but Im in Western Australia and like I just told @cheeohdohz I have depression, anxiety, inattentive ADD, PTSD and history of abusive family relationships. I don't kill spiders, I help anyone I can but I am constantly treated like a criminal by the mental health services here. They turn up unannounced, they ask me to detail where I am going, who with, what I've eaten, dinner dishy suffice I have to explain how much I've eaten and how many slices of cheese for example. Despite having no criminal record they can and do whenever they choose to put me on forms (involuntary hospitalisation with a permanent security guard on me until they let me go) I feel like "I"m a criminal and they are waiting to catch me in the act" The reason? I was beaten and raped by a co-worker, had to resign, couldn't bear going to work after that, shortly after my abusive husband told me to commit suicide, when I didn't he left me and the kids. I was depressed but despite that I got my 11yo daughter to school every single day, took her to counselling as she'd witnessed abuse and was developing panic attacks. My 17yo son (very under the thumb of my abusive ex, apparently its common for kids to side with the abuser) took her to my parents house for a swim while he was housesitting then refused to let her come home. I got angry, uric to push into the house to see her, we argued he called the police and Child welfare. I was absolutely distraught at what was happening so police took me to hospital, while u was there for 3 days DCP put my 11yo daughter into my ex's care who uses meth and pills, he's an alcohic, smokes pot like cigarettes, has had her hospitalised from injuries she suffered from his drug use, when she was 9 he left her on the street at about 10pm while he jumped someones fence drunk and fell asleep on their backlawn, he'd told the school I was dead, the list continues. I showed DCP evidence of everything but because I had depression they deemed her emotional welfare was at risk with me and put her in his care without even organising me to have time with her and without even checking in on her once they closed the case. I swear on everybody I hold dear I am not exaggerating. This destroyed me and after losing her and the worry not being able to protect her my depression got the better of me and I attempted suicide, that was 5 years ago and because of that I'm still treated like a criminal. My daughter no longer goes to school, she is on drugs, having sex, is constantly verbalising suicidal ideation, has no parental boundaries and I'm can do absolutely nothing. This video examples Australian child protection and megalithic health services well. DCP put my 11yo daughter with a drug using abusive and neglectful father because I had admitted suffering depression and the mental health services are constantly on my back waiting for me to say or do something to warrent being locked up and formed. I don't know what its like in other countries but I never in my worst nightmares would have thought that anything like this could happen in Australia. That's my story and I know there are hundreds like it. We have mental health struggles but we're not criminals yet we're treated like ones and our children suffer because of it. My daughter has been robbed. They think depression in a mother is worse for an 11yo daughter than a drug-using neglectful father. I'll stop sorry, my ADD meds make my anxiety worse so I can't them anymore hence I write way way way too much.
My father and I stepped into an elevator with her after her suicide recovery. This was at the Mayter Hospital in Newcastle; where they had a secure psych unit on the 4th floor. We were on the third floor heading down, the elevator opened and she was standing at the back of the elevator cuffed and flanked by 4 police officers. Was super awkward and creepy. Now even more so i've heard her crimes in this much detail.
I'm actually amazed the officers let you into the elevator. four officers moving a flight/public risk convict probably shouldn't allow that kind of break in a secure transport.
Simon: "Never hit back." My mom to me growing up: "Never hit a woman. Unless it's to defend yourself. It doesnt matter if it is a man or woman if they are hitting you unprovoked, hit them back to make them stop. Never start a fight, but make damn sure you finish one if they start it."
Yes, they favor the mother throughout the entire life of the child. Had he taken the daughter with him, he would have been arrested for kidnapping. This happens even with a documented history of abuse from the mother.
This crazy lived in the next town from me it was absolutely stunning. Everyone was totally blown out by it all. The thing that wasn’t mentioned is that after she killed him she took his bankcard and drove to the ATM in town and raided his bank account. This help to knock the diminished responsibility plea out of the picture.
I have seen multiple abusive relationships, both psychological and outright physical. Sadly in my experience the majority of these were the woman abusing the man. (Edit: my experience only, the data still clearly shows men as a more common abuser). Male and female abusers all seemed to create the same sorts of excuses this criminal did to justify their excessive and abusive responses to relationship stress. Folks, never ever sit by and let abuse happen. Let the victim know you are there for them. Record incidents for future prosecution, and report them if possible.
Additionally, (taking into account your local culture/police force/laws) feel free to beat their ass if you can, and at least defend yourself. Boobs and Dicks...they aren't an excuse to be able to act with practical immunity.
I was in a psychologically and emotionally abusive relationship about 10 years ago. I'm still fucked up from it, and feel there's nowhere to really turn from it. Tried a help line once and was told flat out "we don't help men."
@@thatdamncrow9197 ..and 70% of non reciprocal abuse are done by the ladies. Lesbian relationships are more often violent than any other demographic and 2 out of 3 murdered children are killed by mommy dearest. So they're more violent it's just that they like a clear upper hand.
@@TheTurinturumbar if by children you mean infants then yes. Because many of those murders involve mental health that occurs from pregnancy Like PPD which can become PPP (post partum psychosis) Also, I would like to point out that this study is based on self reporting and perception. Often survivors of domestic violence minimize their partner's role in the abuse and take on much of the blame. It is also extremely common for the instigators of the violence to not accept responsibility and deny their role in abuse.
“Last Podcast on the Left” did a good episode on her. The description of the police looking at the crime scene really struck me. The saw her victim’s skin as a curtain of some kind at first, like their brains wouldn’t let them process what they were actually seeing.
Quick comment about the ending of the video : I've read and watched a lot of stuff about psychopaths, sociopaths etc. Apparently, they DO get "softer" as they get older, so it wouldn't be surprising that she's adapting, developing *some* positive social skills, and calming down inside. I've heard that from professional psychiatrists, anyway. Apparently there are studies to back that up. Still doesn't quite mean she can be trusted and released (for what it's worth, it might be a calculated facade of "look I'm not dangerous anymore").
Right I heard the same recently. For a variety of reasons but they all make sense. One being peoples “energy” tends to wind down as they get older, the thrill may slightly change and lower, not to mention they’re already apprehended so they can’t go on sprees like before (oh, darn! 🫤) I’m sure they still daydream and absolutely relish in their memories (sick)
I remember reading about this when it happened, made all the more chilling for me personally for the fact that I myself was in an abusive marriage at the time. Unfortunately, as in many cases even today, being a man on the receiving end of said abuse meant that any physical, psychological, or emotional trauma was patently ignored, while any attempt to defend myself would immediately be interpreted as me myself being the abuser. The unfortunate but simple fact is that men are simply not believed or are told to "man up". If this is indeed changing for the better then it is long overdue, and I would highly encourage any young men who find themselves in a similar situation to seek assistance from the services mentioned at the end of the video so that they don't end up broke, homeless and living in their car as my kids and I did (or worse).
Just posted this on the post before yours but thought was appropriate. I ain't ashamed to admit that an ex used to batter the crap out of me because I wouldn't hit back (would of walked but she was pregnant) One day when she went to the police with some crap about me attacking her, the police banged on my door at 4am nicking me for ABH. What she didn't know is that every mark she left on me, I took a pic so had quite a collection. I showed the police what I'd put up with for a year, they let me go with no charges.......and then didn't see my boy until he was 14 years old so even though I thought I'd got 1 over on her, I missed 14 years of my boys life.
@@brad270472 mate my heart goes out to you as a fellow victim. Feminist say we (males)are disgusting pigs that are abusive and violent... Yes some of us are admittedly but the last couple of years I'm starting to hear there are more men like us who are the victims of DV. Yet there is no support for the male victim in a DV relationship like the support a woman gets
@@aussieausdeutschland4245 I can relate to the emotional scarring, still got a couple of the physical ones too. The classic was our boys 20 week scan. I wanted my keys back cos I was fed up with her smashing my place up, bleaching my clothes etc so she decided to sink her teeth into my arm outside the hospital and the only way I was allowed in was with a security guard each side of me in the scan room and all that, in front of my mum. I've not been really serious with anyone since cos I run a mile when I think things might go that way and looking back, I wish that I'd put her flat on her arse the first time she hit me, I might of been a bit of a git but she might of walked one way, me the other, I would now be a better version of me and I wouldn't of given her a second thought.... but, to her credit. When my boy said he wanted to meet me, she contacted me which was about 8 months ago and been to see him a couple of times, feels a bit surreal though. Suppose I'm the response of being told to man up, grow a pair and don't hit women, you try and live by that principal but it doesn't always work out how it should.
As an Australian I can say that in my experience this shows our mental heal are system in a good light. It’s been declining for years- there are countless stories of people desperate for especially crisis care and it just doesn’t exist. I know someone who has schizophrenia. You want to know how he used to get into hospital when he felt an episode coming on? He used to go to the local police station and jump onto the cop cars. If the police knew him and were unwilling to arrest him, he would take down his pants and wee on them so that he would be arrested for assault. He did this because he knew that after being arrested he couldn’t hurt anybody, no matter how bad his mental health got, and all he wanted was to not hurt anybody.
I’m curious about the twin sister. Was she just as cruel or did she somehow end up leading a fairly normal life? Did she experience the same abusive childhood and yet navigate a positive way through?
Right? I think it's really on how the individual deals with the cards they are dealt. If everyone murdered that had horrible childhoods, there would be a lot more grave plots.
Sometimes abusers also limit (some of) the abuse to (a) specific individual(s), just because a pair of twins grew up in the same house doesn't mean they had the same childhood.
If you knock two glasses off the table and they both break, they will break in different ways. Though both made of the same thing, they will shatter in different ways - while one glass may break into a thousand pieces, the other may break into a jaged edge weapon. The same trauma affects two different people in different ways.
She got some co-morbidities with anti-social personality disorder, Narcissistic Personality disorder and possible psychopathy. Don't know if she had some paranoid delusions (the make believe cheating) also. There's no way she just had BPD. I have BPD and I'm not even a 0.1‰ of how violent she is. I could never leave my baby on train tracks or threaten the public with an axe!
@@marleyhill34 they did say she had post-partum depression. I've seen a case of a mother EATING her child because of that. It's some scary shit. As someone recently diagnosed with BPD, i feel it varies from person to person. It was incredibly difficult for the psychiatrists to discern it from autism because BPD isn't that well understood yet.
@@heiltotheking a lot of people with BPD are on the autistic spectrum or have an attention disorder. I think there is a difference between post partum depression and post partum psychosis. There's been quite a few instances where mothers have murdered their new borns.....a but more common than we would like to think. BPD does vary from person to person but the more violent people that I've met with it have some other co-morbidities.
I have BPD, if you pushed me far enough I can see myself killing someone. That’s extreme though, and you’d have to push me pretty far. I don’t think when I explode with anger so I could theoretically kill someone if I snapped. Wouldn’t last as long as it did for her though, I calm down pretty quick once I’ve exploded so it’d be soon to instant regret, not chopping people up, couldn’t see myself doing that. If you have enough triggers and the wrong situation at the wrong time, anyone can pretty much explode and hurt someone.
@@DresdenShuffle Yeah with my BPD, I know people have been scared that I will hurt them during episodes. But I have a bit more impulse control, conscience and empathy that deep down I don't want hurt anyone. If I killed someone, I would definitely want to stay permanently in prison or some secure facility. I work daily to keep myself safe and keep others safe from me.
I read the book about her when I was 19. My she was a piece of work. The book was passed amongst family and friends, and 20 years later we still make remarks like "I'll feed your kids soup" when we're annoyed.
Hey Simon! How about an episode on Esti Carranza! It’s got everything a good episode should have! Romance! Ice cream! Chainsaws! It’ll be great! I’m really early this time! Also my phone is basically predicting this whole comment at this point. I hope enough people notice this…
5 years from now: [Satire] "Republicans are turning to cannibalism because owning the libs isn't enough they have to eat them too." "A Senior Republican was quoted as saying, "Its not murder to eat a vegan, cows and pigs are vegan and we eat them."" "When asked about the hipocracy about their stance of the sanctity of human life being breached the response was "libs arn't human."" I hope this doesn't happen but the way things are turning out I would no longer be surprised.
well, this was...sobering. i hope her kids are alive and well. i can't imagine what growing up with her as a mother must've done to their brains. this whole story is just utterly heartbreaking. it's just too recent for comfort.
They always favor the mother, sometimes to the danger of the child. Stuff like this makes me think the death penalty needs to be kept around for extreme circumstances.
You're so right about kids. Prior to having kids I just didn't understand. Now that I have kids, it's utterly incomprehensible that anyone could harm any kid, much less their own. So crazy.
Always appreciate the heads up in the title when there’s cannibalism. Cannibalism is bad but surprise cannibalism hits differently than expected cannibalism. I have time to brace myself for the horror.
Would attempted cannibalism be a better fit? I think she cooked him and tried to eat him, but she couldn't. It was the whole skinning thing that really gets me caz I think he was still bleeding out when she started.
I remember this case (I'm in Aus) and the poor officers that had to go to the scene. There is a great documentary on it that interviews them and interviews Priceys mates that detail the psychological abuse he suffered and the hold that cow had on him explaining why he hadn't left. If children weren't involved I think he might have but she was a great manipulator. She will never get out, the whole country hates her too much.
He was addicted to sex, actually their relationship was mainly sexual. He didn't want to marry her and left her out of his will. Katherine was messed up good and Johnny knew about it but he wouldn't leave the sexual benefits. The same happened with Jodi Arias, the guy had no intentions of marrying her but still smashed and dumped while keeping his "good mormon boy" image. Even after breaking up he kept on meeting Jodi for sex, he had sex with her the day she killed him 😑. I don't know why people do this, I think they are the ones who think hold the control because the woman is so willing to please them sexually. I wouldn't date a man who I knew had been violent to previous partners, I also wouldn't date a man I didn't love him or had serious intentions of building a future and i would just date him to extract resources from him. That's cruel. There are many men like Katherine who actually commit murder out of perceived jealousy or triggered by perceived abandonment. I've been used as well and it's soul breaking, damaging. I didn't want to k1ll him or harm him but the pain and anger against myself was so great i wanted to end up my own life. I think Katherine had bpd with sociopathic features because this disorder rarely externalizes rage but internalizes as self harm and suicidal behavior.
@@Sarablueunicorn women, plz....sure killing someone over a lover's spat is okay, but literally skinning them, making steaks out of their buttocks to serve the kids and boil their head in a stove with veggies crosses the line of being even human at this point (she literally told her brother and daughter several times before that she will do it exactly as she did and get away with it all by pleading insanity). I'm a child from an abusive, divorced marriage and let me tell you, when things get violent enough that physical harm comes, there is no excuse then and the couple has to breakup and keep distance or else bad things happen, and it always falls upon those who raise their hands first, Katherine butchered someone out of emotion and even by some god miraculous grace she was on the right side, she still did the most lowest thing possible that we wouldn't even do to our greatest enemies in war. Take shit like a human for once instead of bringing gender into everything, your only making people hate women more for playing the women card always.
@m-w-y7325 bit concerned by your attitude to murdering your lover if you have a row. I think you need a hard rethink on your values and maybe therapy/medication. That's really not OK. 😮
My wife lived in Australia. was married to an abusive man. He Choked her and threw her against a wall. When she got free and grabbed her daughter and hid while she was hiding he was running around outside with a shotgun firing it and screaming how he was going to destroy her. She called the cops which took 30 minutes to get there( we were friends (I lived in the US at the time) for years and she called me after calling the cops. I heard all the gunfire and the cops getting there.). They arrested him. 5 hours later they called her to come to pick him up as they were finished booking him. The Domestic violence laws are nuts there.
This was so tragic, he wasn't an angel but everyone who knew him said he was a really nice guy. He tried to get away from.her but she stalked him relentlessly.
Also, Australian law & mental health systems are improving when it comes to child protection & domestic violence. One of my friends had an abusive partner & he was able to get custody of his daughter before she was left on railroad tracks & that was 3 yrs ago
It's really common for those abused to return to the abusive relationship whether female or male. I like the ending where they talk about abuse hotlines (even if it was forgotten to be linked in the description). You see some the inherent problems with laws around abuse and the difficulty in abuse cases for both genders. At least one of the reported cases just got thrown out because testimony disagree, the guy's friends refused to talk to the guy in an abusive relationship essentially pushing the blame onto him (and making him more reliant on the abuser for companionship) and repeatedly gaslighting the victims. His friends say they pleaded with him not to go back but not a single one went with him to get the kids despite the obvious physical abuse and him repeatedly "joking" about how his wife is going to kill him. Social stigma often goes against the abused just as much or more as the person abused and while less common can be even worse when the abused is male. The abused often get told to "just" leave, people ignore the signs, the abused tries to hide it or it becomes a joke. Remember, if you are ever abused or think you know someone who is you can contact a hotline for advice and guidance to help.
When my kids grow up, I hope male survivors of domestic abuse are treated equally by society and the law. Every survivor is amazing in my eyes. You have made it this far, and that’s great. I also want to add that, while PTSD is very difficult to work with, there are some positive treatment options (EMDR, Psychotherapy and other forms of trauma therapy) and there are people working on improving that every day. So please don’t give up if you have PTSD, because you can still have a good quality of life 💜
@@tmf866 I’m so sorry you and your family Went through that 🫂 I think in people under 30-35, there are some big cultural changes. I also think the legal system, media and such are run by older generations who are less inclined to employ younger folks who aren’t conservative. I really do think change is happening, it’s just taking it’s sweet time getting to the big places. On a social level there are actually a few charities for men now, which is a huge difference! They need more funding, we need to talk about it more and support EVERYONE better. But I genuinely thing change is happening. I hope you have the support you need and a great future 💜
I have PTSD I have a dog trained to help me. I don't know what I do with my sweet Cindy she just loves people and seems to know how to love everyone.People who meet her say that makes them feel better just petting her.😍♥️👍
@@janetrawlings1691 my dog isn’t trained, but is incredibly gentle and loving. She is SO kind and really seems to care for me. Makes a huge difference every day!
I would really like to know if the kids in this situation (hers, and the step-kids) are doing okay. We don't need to put them in the spotlight, but I very much hope they got the help they needed after this nightmare.
their mother never told them the truth about what happened to him, they only found out years later when one of them came across a news article about it in the paper, when they were older and assumable better able to handle it (though how well could anyone handle that). I actually think this was probably a good parenting choice to protect them.
Thank you for the last part. I was in a abusive relationship a few years back and in the military, and was asked every day why I was 'fighting down the town'. I wasn't, I was getting the shit kicked out of me at home and felt I couldn't say anything and just took it for my kids. Thankfully out of that and better for it. It's horrific for anyone to deal with that, and it's really awkward to try and explain it. Thankfully I have some really good friends who lit a fire under me to get it sorted. I was more scared of fighting back because I'd be the monster then :( Last time it happened she went after me with a 9 inch knife and she found out what Infantry can do when she got Judo chucked through a door. That was a fun chat with the police.
Simon says he wouldn't make these jokes if he suspected his wife would kill him. Simon has never joked about his wife killing him. Danny and Sam aren't the only ones in the basement, lads.
He definitely is in the basement we already know this. His “office” is below street level and the windows he talks about seeing the street cleaners through are near the ceiling Danny Callum Jen Sam and the rest are just his deteriorating mental state 🤣
LMAOOO the whole spiel at the beginning about gender equality in true crime shows reminded me of how back when women's day happened this year, there were so many true crime podcasts promoted about killer women and like, I dunno, maybe I'm an outlier, but I feel like brutal inhuman murder isn't exactly #girlboss inspiration material
Hannibal Lecter did not have a dungeon, though he was incarcerated in one. Buffalo Bill had a dungeon, and Hannibal Lecter helped find him, so it all works out one way or another.
One of the great truths of our times, like "If you wonder why something happens, ask who made money" Don't try to figure out the wacky, they're wacky!!
"...If you don't give me the deed to your ranch, I'll tie you to the railroad tracks..." or words to that effect and don't forget the opening animation of "Dudley Do-Right".
My ex-wife was emotionally and mentally manipulative and abusive. Even manipulated my own son to be afraid of my entire family, who were supportive of her and my son the whole time. Abuse is still abuse, physical or not.
Finally found something I disagree with Simon on, as far as I'm concerned if you swing a punch at anyone you better be ready to get one back. Equal rights and lefts.
if i hit a man i surely expect a hit back. really hate this "a man can't hit a woman" mentality. it's literally the opposite of equality. with thinking that you are actually saying that a woman is lesser and weaker than you, like a child would be. you can always hit *back*
I've been in Australia for over 10 years and only found details of this case from your channel. The thought of the poor officer seeing the hanging blanket.. pure nightmare material ..great podcast Simon
I believe in gender equality. Equal rights. Equal wages. Equal treatment. And as part of equal treatment, regarding remarks around the 8:15 mark… equal ass-kicking if you take a swing at/pull a knife on me.
I am a surviving victim of domestic violence and I am a man. My ex was not shy in hitting me in front of our daughter or being financially and mentally abusive. I didn't dare go to the cops for fear of being laughed out of the station. As it ended, she decided to run and play the victim and because she spoke first, I was immediately looked at as the abuser because obviously, why would she come forward first otherwise? The system is far from changed or fair. People on an individual or societal level may understand the reality of the situation, but the machine that is the judicial branch is still working with old laws and mentalities unfortunately. Ultimately it costed me my daughter, who now 'safely' lives with her mother. God help her. I tried to protect her, and I was threatened with jail. The system is rigged if you're a guy and are abused.
This happened an hour away from where I grew up and I knew next to nothing about it until I listened to a podcast on it. It's mental what can go on in your own local area without you knowing until you actively look. One of my workmates DJ'd the christmas party for the abattoir she worked at the year before this happened and remembered seeing her there. He seemed pretty freaked out to have been in such close proximity, even if it only was for a short time.
Less than a minute in, I’m saying to myself, Simon, you’ll definitely have comments, so many comments. An Australian here who remembers the case very well. She is nuts!
15:16 Simon talking about leaving a baby to get run over on some train tacks: "... Of all the things we cover on Casual Criminalist, it just seems almost beyond the most insane of all of them. I don't understand." **insert picture of baby Adolf Hitler here**
I know someone who was in prison with her. She doesn't even show any remorse for what she did. Just searched the house on google maps and I can't believe someone actually lives there. I wonder if they know the history of it?
My girl friend would tell me about the times when her dad had to put her mother in a headlock so she couldn't hit him with a frying pan. As for men being abused, Johnny Depp kept it a secret for quite a while even after Amber Heard smashed the end of one of his fingers and it needed to be surgically re-attached.
WTF does your comment have to do with the video? You do this when they have episodes of men killing their wives? No. You have no girlfriend. Hell you can't even spell "girlfriend" correctly. Just some Incel or MGTOW freak trying to get other men to hate women. Freak!!
@@tyrant7583 thank you! Every time you talk about men’s violence someone have to make a point that men gets abused to. It’s not okay ofc, but men mostly gets abused by other men. And for the headlock story, abusers are experts at lying. I was in an abusive relationship. I never used violence, not even to defend myself. The story my abuser is telling anyone and everyone that will listen is that I am crazy and that he only defended himself or had to use force to stop me from hurting myself. Abusers lie.
Did anyone notice that the sweet montage of baby videos beginning at 15:00, when Simon is waxing fondly about how much he loves his children ends with a still shot of baby Adolph Hitler? "Savage."
The whole way through the story, I just kept saying wait til you get to the “main even” Simon. Love watching you & hearing the way Callum puts the stories together. Thanks for the entertainment.
Simon, Callum and Jen, you guys do a great job of explaining some of the most horrific crimes but I think you do a great job to even research, narrate and edit these stories. I don't enjoy them but they are fascinating in a terrible and a "thank God I was no way near there" sort of way. Good job.
I usually agree that you should never hit a woman, but if she pulls a knife it's free game dude.
EQUAL RIGHTS, EQUAL LEFTS
Or kills your puppy
I'd never hit a woman, but if she killed a defenseless puppy or stabbed me in the back... yeah, I'm punching that bitch because she isn't a woman at that point; she's a damn demon.
I don't care how many times she's stabbed you, YOU NEVER HIT A WOMAN.
Edit: when reading the above, please at least entertain the possibility that it may be parody.
@@eadweard.: What if she was born a man? ;)
It just occurred to me that Katherine is literally someone's "evil twin"..
Evil twin evil twin
Omg!!!! Wonder what happened to the other one?
Imagine if Katherine was the comparative "good twin"...
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Wow. Creepy. What was her Sister like, I wonder.
The greatest tragedy here, is that since no one intervened early on, not only did her offending get progressively worse, her poor children were at her mercy their entire childhood. I can't imagine this cruel and vindictive woman showered them with empathy. Children don't have the power to just leave. This is how abuse becomes inter generational. We have to look out for the children.
She had already tried to dispose of her first baby on the tracks. I don't imagine she suddenly became a loving doting mother after that. And the poor kids of her last boyfriend. I feel so damn bad for them.
Reminds me of the Milats. Lots of fucked up things happened in the generations above them, and then there was Ivan. And his weird siblings.
I completely agree! But I agree with Simon too tho! It's not an excuse...They have to take some responsibility too...I grew up in a really abusive house...but my kids haven't...it ran in the family until it ran into me! We control our future...
@@dianaridley7943 same here
@@dianaridley7943 Great job breaking the cycle!
Oh, we definitely need to advocate for both and let our men and boys know that speaking up about any abuse they've experienced is ABSOLUTELY OKAY!!!
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As a man who has had to report domestic abuse i can confirm that yes, you definitely get ridiculed for it and in my state, get treated like a criminal trying to hide his own crimes by gaslighting his partner.
Many hugs to you! Male victims of domestic abuse certainly get the short stick when it comes to reporting and getting anything done about it. I hope you are in a better place now.
@@ciriadeflora amen
Sorry to hear man...
In my case I was attacked, broke my nose by kneeing me in the face and then literally tried to bite my thumb off...
And then I spent the night in jail for all that...
It's a broken system that's for sure.
@@DownLow0099 Jesus how did u end up In the cell?!
@@HaYlEeXx19 she called the cops and told them I attacked her. When I heard her calling the cops I thought, good, I'll sit here and they'll clearly see I'm all fucked up and she'll get in shit. Right? Ha...
My mistake was... Well I mean she was a mistake, clearly... But anyway when she was trying to chew my fucking thumb off I did punch her in the face to get her off, I was yelling, and trying to pull away, I pulled her hair she wouldn't let go. I could feel her teeth getting deeper and I finally just reacted after a big wave of pain hit... I hate that that happened but WTF was I supposed to do...
So the cops just believed her story over mine. I was the male in a domestic dispute and that was that.
As to why she attacked me in the first place?
In short she was bipolar and liked to play her little games which I was done with...
We were out for drinks, got late. I had to get home because the last train leaves downtown, she invites me to her place instead. I reminded her that there are no trains soon and that that would mean I would be crashing at her place. She agreed. Ha...
No joke about 3 minutes after the last train leaves she tells me "okay, it's time to leave"... I remember just staring at her incredulously... But I had known her for quite a while. We actually lived together for awhile at one point before this. I was more mad at myself for not seeing her bullshit coming. I just said "really?" She's like "yep" with a little smirk...
"Okay, thanks for this, guess I'm walking" and I got up off the couch, proceeded to the door and began putting my shoes and jacket on. Winter by the way...
While I was knelt down tying my shoe I guess her bipolar kicked in because she was mad I wasn't gonna play her fucked up little game. She wanted drama is what it was... she jumped up off the couch sprinted across the room to the door (small downtown apartment) and kneed me in the fucking face... Hour later I was in jail with assault charges, a broken nose and a fucked up thumb. No charges on her whatsoever... And I asked, they just ignored me.
In the end everything was thrown out of court, turns out I was not the first guy she did this same shit to... Fucking psycho.
If a woman EVER hints at being bipolar. RUN... Run far and fast and NEVER look back...
Don't hit a woman after she hits you? In the words of my late grandmother, "If anyone ever hits you, boy or girl, you hit back." She was a strong supporter of equal rights.
Yea it's not the 1800s anymore
Agreed.
My grandmother taught us the same.
as a wise(cracking) internet meme put it: Equil rights, come with Equil lefts
@@davidtal523 equal*
“Police attacked her with brooms.” - Shows the Cowboy Bebop movie broom fight scene.
Well played editor, well played.
Jen is awesome! What a sense of humor!
"I love the kind of woman who can kick my ass."
@Knight of the Sun that’s so specific though 😭 i feel it’s more likely that she just knew of the scene beforehand
as someone with borderline personality disorder, i just want to say that this lady definitely has more than bpd going on. I don’t want anyone to think this is what most people with bpd are like, we are not like this.
There’s something deeply broken and/or missing inside this woman- BPD doesn’t do that.
@@LizLuvsCupcakes I mean yeah it definitely can. It's different for everyone, and obviously for her it led to violent tendencies
Source?
Agreed. She has a few traits more in sync with ASPD or at the very minimum some sort of fetish, a paraphilia.
She reminds me a lot of another very famous case: Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer was one of the few on record that scored very low on the test for psychopathy. Compared to Ted Bundy, who was one of the highest scores ever known on the Hare Psychopathy Checklist , 39/40, Dahmer was a lightweight. Low 20's. You need to score 30 or higher to be a full fledged psychopath.
And for further reference, Aileen Wuoronos also was diagnosed with BPD, but they also gave her the test. (The fact that both Bundy and Wuoronos ended up in prison in Florida is just a weird coincidence, but the world has the State of Florida to thank for having enough experience to know to give them the test.) It proved there was more going on with her than just BPD. 32/40. Just behind Ted.
Dahmer is believed to have had BPD, which is often overlooked as a diagnosis in males: it manifests itself a little differently in boys. The root is the same, but a man is more likely to get in a bar fight or act up or act out. Most do not become domestic abusers any more than any other population; in fact, they often act more like a silverback gorilla and rip stuff up during BPD fueled fugues. Dahmer as a kid most likely inherited his condition in part from his mother and also from the fact that his family environment was very unhappy and often neglectful of his emotional needs. He had severe dissociative episodes. Schizotypal disorder was also believed to be part of his makeup as the disconnect with reality was too strong to be only BPD: the man was obsessed with dissection and the connection between sex and violence for him is NEVER typical of BPD.
This woman was VERY unwell. At least as unwell as Dahmer and had a bit of something extra going on like Wuoronos.
And as for BPD as a diagnosis, some violence may be involved.
But not PREDATORY violence. Like I said, men with the condition usually have mothers, sisters, even wives that have all their limbs intact. They will go bonkers if anyone even alludes to harming them. Women may have an unquenchable fear within them.
They don't know when they have gone too far, unfortunately.
Read that female psychopaths often are borderline plus the distinct psychopathic traits. That and clinicians tendency to not expect females to be psychopaths and thus have a bit of a blindspot you can easily see how and why she could've been misdiagnosed as BPD.
oh wow, the woman who attacked her lovers because she thought they were cheating on her, was cheating on them. shocker
Projection. The thieve's greatest fear is being robbed.
Yeah. I wonder how many men have done the same?
@@annalieff-saxby568 I wonder how many other women have done the same 🤔
@Dr. Bright I'm just commenting on an open forum. A shame your masculinity's so fragile that you have to resort to insults when a woman expresses an opinion.
that's a personality disorder
Just an interesting side note: When she pled guilty the judge adjourned the case to have her assessed by several psychiatrists who all confirmed that she was sane and was able to fully comprehend her trail. This was to ensure that she could never appeal her sentence based on diminished capacity in the future.
Good on that judge, a very intelligent move cause I imagine with her demeanor now there could be some serious wiggle room for her to get a parole back in the deck.
@@Zayl1016 Absolutely! He did a very good job!
With all that talent she should have skinned her step dad....
It's often required by both sides. Both protects the defendant and the prosecution. Should only surprise us when it's a Knight or a Gacey and if they do not get such a psychiatric review.
It's trial, trail is another thing.
It's amazing how much she got away with. She wasn't even a good criminal, it was all done out in the open and everyone just kept letting her go.
I bet all my money that if a man did everything she did, the law would've stepped in way earlier...
Shes a women. She gets away with everything when it’s against men.
Makes one proud to be Aussie, eh?
She absolutely had a better chance of getting away with it because she was a woman, because the idea that a woman can be so violent and successfully so against men is unimaginable by so many.
Sexism hurts both the sexes I'm afraid. The double standards our society puts in place for both genders is horrific and pointless. I doubt Jeffrey Dahmer would have gotten away for as long as he did had police officer's bigotry views towards gays not clouded their judgment. A viewpoint only instilled due to a traditional toxic western view of masculinity.
Simon, if Kellett had taken the baby, Katherine could have called the police, and had Kellett arrested, when she'd have found out his address in court. The courts would definitely come down on the mother's side back in the 70's and 80's, especially if she had alleged Kellett was abusive, and our mental health facilities and procedures have never been great...
Edit: The first men's domestic violence shelter only opened in 2021 in Queensland. Resources for men who suffer domestic violence are thin on the ground unfortunately.
Lesson to learn: Don't settle for a toxic relationship. Get the hell out of it.
That isnt always as easy as it sounds. Having been in one. The damage you on a mental level and make you see no way out, when there are several.
For me it wouldn't get past the skulls and knives
@@Redacted2898 it's always easy when you've got self respect.
I had to leave after 10 years. I lost everything except my kids. It sucks, but I'm alive. I'm still trying to get on. The struggle is very real. It sucks more when your own family doesn't understand/care/believe you and disowns you.
@Chance do we now victim shame those we can't understand?
"A severe alcoholic even by Australian standards"... I actually LOL'ed.
I thought THAT would automatically mean FATAL ALCOHOL POISONING...😊
Severe alcoholic by Australian standards = Irish social drinker or US Sailor on duty
That's actually pretty racist, even by Australian standards.
@@hanselmansell7555 >>> I thought being Australian was a nationality, not a race.
I laughed as well, although (like domestic violence) alcoholism is a pretty serious social problem here.
Simon says "Don't abuse your kids, you psycho".
Wise words but it's heartbreaking that they have to be said.
They don't need to be said.
@@eadweard. Well yes they do, because people keep abusing their kids.
@@travismiller1491 Anyone remotely decent doesn't need telling - and anyone psychopathic enough to abuse children won't be receptive to the advice.
@@eadweard. and yet it keeps occuring so why not shed some light on it. What exactly is your problem here. Like you're actually generally having a go over me saying you shouldn't abuse kids?
@@travismiller1491 Hopefully I'm not having a go at anyone. My only point is that those words - "Don't abuse children" - do not need saying. No one is unaware that they shouldn't abuse children. The ones who continue to abuse simply do not care.
“why are you trying to make sense of the crazy people?……………….. they’re crazy.” i need this as a giant poster on my wall
I met Katherine Knight 7 or 8 years ago, and we actually had a bit of a laugh together....let me explain...
I am a technician whose job is repairing office equipment, and my company used to have the contract for Correctional Services in Sydney, including Silverwater Prison.
I had a job to do at the maximum security section of the womens prison. A few days before this, I had seen a tv doco on Knight, which mentioned that she was at this prison.
You have to be escorted by a large guard once inside the grounds, and I mentioned the doco to him, and he explained that yes, she was in this section of the prison.
Walking across the grounds, there was a building with a cyclone wire fenced compound at its rear, inside of which an inmate was operating a forklift right near the fence.
Our eyes met, and she called out "hows it going" to which I replied, "great thanks, yourself?
She replied,"Oh, I''m fantastic". I said that its a shame about the weather, as it had been raining for 6 days in a row, and she replied, "oh I dont care about the weather, I''m always happy". I said "good on ya" as we both laughed.
The guard and I walked on another 20 meters, and he said, "well you wanted to know if she was here, and now you"ve had a laugh with her. I said what do you mean, and he said "That was Katherine Knight, on the forklift" I spun around and looked closely and sure enough it was her, although she had put on a fair bit of weight from the old pics of her in the media, so I did not recognize her at first. I was so stunned and it felt so surreal, after watching the doco only a few days before. I had just had a chat with probably the most disgusting killer in Australian history.
Just be glad that was how you met her because other's didn't do so good.
there's a picture of her smiling, white hair, and she just looks like someone's sweet grandmother
I definitely wouldn’t accept the pin pal invite 😳
@@toxxicx minus the prisoners fatigues of course
Holy shit 😳
"Doesn't mean she has to grow up to be someone who removes peoples' skin. And turns it into a rug. It's weird. Stop it."
:D
Quote of the century, one we can all live by.
Hopefully 😑
Best comment ever.
In terms of reporting domestic abuse, I think it's equally difficult for men and women to report it but for different reasons. For men, there's stigma around it and the whole thing of felling like less of a man and the idea that it's not possible, while for women, there's the fear that you won't be believed or be called hysterical and there's also a lot of victim blaming.
This. 100%
You’re still pretty wrong here, it’s actually geared towards men not being beloved or that you’re called weak
@@LARA-sg4bt and who calls men weak? Other men do.
I want to be able to cry without another man calling me a pussy or to man up.
I ain't ashamed to admit that an ex used to batter the crap out of me because I wouldn't hit back (would of walked but she was pregnant) One day when she went to the police with some crap about me attacking her, the police banged on my door at 4am nicking me for ABH. What she didn't know is that every mark she left on me, I took a pic so had quite a collection. I showed the police what I'd put up with for a year, they let me go with no charges.......and then didn't see my boy until he was 14 years old so even though I thought I'd got 1 over on her, I missed 14 years of my boys life.
@@brad270472 this sounds like a tumbler story.
I know a guy who got out of an abusive relationship a few years ago. She's still causing him problems in the court system (she lied in court, it was proven, about him abusing/stalking her). Sometimes I donate to men's DV shelters, they're not anywhere near as common as ones for women (last I looked there were like 4 total in the US). If I were to beat up my bf, there's a good chance he'd be arrested for DV even if he hadn't hit back. Likewise, if I were the one who needed a shelter, there's one across town just a few miles away. If he were the one to need a shelter, he'd have to travel across two states, hundreds of miles away. That just doesn't seem right to me. Many times I've seen chicks just casually smacking their bf/husband, and it's treated like nothing. "Oh, he's bigger and stronger and can take it", that's what people excuse it with, never considering that the emotional aspect is damaging, the disrespect or devaluation of a person, regardless of whether there is lasting physical harm.
I completely disagree with the whole "men should never hit a woman" thing.
I mean, no one should ever hit anyone. But, if you're being abused you should 100% defend yourself with as much reasonable force as possible. Don't take that shit just because "you shouldn't hit girls".
I am a tiny man. If my girlfriend ever hits me I am hitting back so I dont fucking die.
100% nobody should ever use physical violence towards another person. It doesn't matter if you are a man or woman, if you put your hands on me I will put mine on you to stop it from happening again.
As a very tiny woman I completly agree. Don't hit anybody if you don't want to be hit back.
Whether you try to simply restrain her as Simon suggests (harder than you think) or hit back, you'll be arrested and charged all the same thanks to the Duluth model. With that in mind: do whatever it takes to defend yourself. Better than not even being around to appeal the jail sentence.
Fr. Having tits doesn’t mean you can’t kill or injure someone. That kind of attitude is why so many men casually accept being the victim of domestic abuse. It doesn’t matter what sex or gender you are, abuse is abuse. Full stop.
I don't know, as a woman, if I ever hit a man first (which I never have, btw), I'd fully expect them to defend themselves... You should never hit your SO period, but if they hit first you have a right for self defense.
I totally agree. If her first husband had fought back, maybe she would have learned not to abuse people.
Wish you had been the cop when my mom attacked my stepdad with a baseball bat. (She had undiagnosed mental issues) He fought her off called the cops and the cops arrested him.
Glad someone said this. I hate that antiquated mentality. It's a pretty simple standard anyone should adhere to: If you assault someone, prepare to be assaulted back, regardless of gender. Don't like that? Don't freaking assault anyone.
You may have the right to fight back, but that doesn't mean normal people won't think badly of a man assaulting a woman as self defense. It's all wishful thinking. At the end of the day, the public will prefer to side with a woman until it's way too late and irrevocable damage is done.
@@Wheres_my_Dragonator domestic violence, sexual assault, and murder. Three crimes that society likes to believe women don't do or if they do do them will make excuses for.
For her mother to warn her FIRST husband that she'd kill him, there must be additional psychotic behavior in her earlier relationships that we don't even know about ... but Mama knows
Her mother was also pretty psychotic, abused and an abuser.
Mama helped her bury her first corpse probably. Australia back in the day, who would even know?
Jeez learn what psychotic means before just throwing around that word.
Psychotic means someone experiencing psychosis which means a cut with reality aka hallucinations/delusions etc. It's a symptom of schizophrenia but everyone can experience it through drug induction (ecstasy for example), sleep deprivation, sudden blood loss, severe physical/psychological trauma, heat stroke, dehydration...
I’m not 100 percent sure but I think she may have either killed or injured one of her own brothers
@@Sarablueunicorn Why so defensive? Did you watch the presentation? Did you listen to it? Psychotic!!!
My exes mother warned me about her the first time i met her. I thought it was strange but should have listened. Four years of hell and abuse followed before i eventually woke up and left. I'm still mentally traumatised by it. Always listen to your gut feeling and never ignore the red flags. Ignoring red flags to see the good in people will cost you later.
I was in highschool at the next town over when this happened, one of my best friends at the time was loosely related to her.
I also dated a girl who was loosely related to her and lived in the same town.
Absolutely rocked the area when it happened, everyone was in a state of disbelief... kinda that "this sort of thing doesn't happen here!" mentality.
One thing that really bothered me about this case, aside from the obvious gruesome details, was that the sentencing judge made special mention about it being a woman he was sentencing and how hard it was for that reason.
I mean...come on mate, you shouldn't be a judge if something like gender can effect your judgement.
What she did just shouldn't be done anywhere!
True Dat! Gender should play no role in judicial decisions.
Except when politicians decide to appoint more females into political positions of power. They have a quota for women and LTGB regardless of the irony of equality they champion. This mentality has trickled down through to the corporate sector who use it as a marketing strategy to promote false sense of equality. This is my view from personal experience being bullied into writing favourable reviews in recruiting female and non white employees to satisfy quotas which attract government funding benefits for private institutions. Then when poo hit the fan and the female employee can't perform as promised the blame is projected towards the reviewer who failed to see through the cracks. The system is a failure on all levels. Gender politics does exist.
Thats what the law system is. I would call it a Justice system if there was any in it, but women always get massively less time then men.
Can you imagine how traumatized those kids were? Their mom almost fed them their dad.
She wasn't their mother, fortunately!
eh, even if she was their stepmother, can be still be fucking creepy as hell. depends on how close they were to her, really.
It's called a "family dinner"
"listen Timmy, if you don't eat your dad how are you going to gain his strength?"
@@hkchan1339 I am going hell for this.
Simon: "How much worse can it get??"
Me, who is quite familiar with this case: "Oh honey..."
you so right .... i thought "si, just wait til you see whats for dinner"
“One of the fingerprint technicians turned in their resignation the next day” OF FUCKING COURSE VRO
I’m very familiar with the case as well, I lived in Muswellbrook in 2000
@@kathrynmonaghan3245 yeah, my dad is a police officer and I did several performances in Scone during my highschool years and my dad would tell me about the case because we were so close to where it happened
When you strip this case and boil it down to the basics, this case is horrifying.
As a woman I say:
Equal rights equal fights. If a woman is coming at you to throw hands you get to at least throw one back. And If she has a knife you have full rights to knock her out
oath
True but even if you get hit you could still prevent it from being a fight
@@zosoplant5108what about when a 6ft man towers over a 5ft woman? Or how about equal heights and weights? How about when the woman towers over the male? So, what you're saying despite gender differences is that you can't defend yourself against an attacker? That's what you're really saying and I just can't with people who condone abuse.
Simon: You just don't hit a woman back, you just don't.
Batman: The hammers of justice are unisex!
I like you. You have great taste.
Batman,my favorite Hero.
mADOLF pHITLER at 15:18 modeling the perfection of children but naming that child has simon filter the comment.
Equal rights equal figths
Definitely hit a woman back, especially if she pulls a knife on you. Fight sexism on all levels…. That means equal rights in violence as well.
The baby thing should've definitely kept her in longer, but like... cutting your coworker and holding them hostage so you can go _murder three people_ didn't put her in a mental hospital for the criminally insane!?!
Australia let every one of her victim's down. It constantly amazes me how people can ignore warning sign after warning sign.
If she'd done this stuff in the US, she wouldn't have been out in time to kill Mr. Price when she did. Carjacking and kidnapping are among the most serious Federal felonies.
Keep in mind a lot of this happened in the 1970’s. Things now are definitely different, probably because of cases like this. Mental health and correctional services have changed a lot in all countries since then.
Back in those days there was no such thing as mental health. There was crazy and not crazy. The 90’s for us was when this started to be a thing and domestic violence is still the biggest killer amongst woman and children. Given the alcholic culture in Oz it makes this much worse and in the 00’s men still belived a womens place was in the kitchen and likely still do. I moved back to NZ as i found that part of the culture to much to handle being a sucsessful female. Got sick of the shit i always got from men.
This would also have been harder on someone like Pricey who was a miner. The whole concept of manliness among miners would have made it even harder
It being the 70's aside, mental health support in Australia has been pretty piss poor until the last few years and even then it's just better and not what I'd call good.
The whole system is incredibly fractured, and only a few dedicated hospitals exist, many of those not built until the 80's, the majority of which are urban (of which the entire area Aberdeen is in, most definitively not, closest city worth mentioning is Newcastle, what's like 2 hours away and even today has abysmal mental health support). There's really no government level support for dealing with mental health issues. There's funding, sure, but it's given to dozens if not hundreds of small independent organisations.
I'm surprised neither Simon nor Callum, in detailing her abusive childhood, mentioned that *she had a twin sister* who had no record of bullying, beating, stabbing, flaying, and/or dismembering and cooking anyone. Or did she?
It's the law of conservation of evil. One of them had a goatee
Her twin was just better at hiding it. She owns a BBQ joint .
@@komerwest1687 gold
What if she killed her twin and is posing as her in freedom👀
mADOLF pHITLER at 15:18 modeling as simon discusses the perfection of children. How long will this video stay up for once this is bought to his attention? mADOLF pHITLER are forboden words on here so I suspect his image being used to illustrate his perfection as a child has not been done deliberately, far to much soy in simon for it to be perposefully done, but i bet his editor knew exactly who that child is bahaha awesome work slipping that into simons video for sure
I can’t even begin to imagine how traumatizing the puppy incident must have been for her husband.
Bro at this point, I wouldn't care about gender, love, being proper or whatever, I would rain hellfire on her ass. The sheer restraint required to not straight up beat her ass half to death after that will never be achievable to me.
For anyone. Poor thing.
Kathy getting Price fired is a way of trying to cut him off from his outside sources of support. He should never have gone back.
Hindsight and being able to distance yourself from the situation make it really easy to point out errors. Unfortunately present time decision making is often done out of impulse
@@slayingroosters4355 I've been in a relationship with a very manipulative person. You're absolutely right about that, at the time I didn't even realize it. Only after I was apparently not good enough anymore or just not interesting, idk, but I spent time with a friend I hadn't seen since getting together with her (because she didn't like me spending time with him, he liked to drink, and she hated that). He then pointed out to me everything that was wrong... Only then I really realized how fucked up that all was....
@@adenkyramud5005 I’ve been in a similar situation myself and usually am quite a bubbly loud person. For years I wasn’t myself. As soon as it had finally ended and I could look back wondering why on earth I stayed but at the time it was, she needs love, she needs support (anything for her nothing for me basically). I wasn’t allowed to see my friends or go anywhere without her because I had been out at work all day (she stayed at home or went to see her friends all day). My current girlfriend always tells me off for asking permission for stupid crap and would do anything for me so I’ve definitely come out of the situation much better off. I’m glad things worked out for you too! 👍🏿👌🏿
Simon tells about the innocence of kids and babies and we see a baby picture of Hitler. Jen, I see what you did there. LOL!
Haha nice. I was like "I know that baby, was that victim in a pervious episode?" but no, only Hitler.
When I saw that I laughed so hard my wife scolded me for potentially waking the baby.
Pmsl at that one!
Nicely done Jen. I rarely laugh at what is meant to be funny, but that one got me. Outstanding work.
She's trying to compete with Sam...
I knew a guy that grew up in a small town with a pig slaughter house. The citizens regularly rotated who would work at the slaughter house, to minimize the negative psychological impact of killing and butchering animals day after day.
That's actually a fantastic idea.
Dont they use they automated bolt gun so no one is actually doing the killing? The animal walk straight in to it and the doors close and the others lined up cant see and as its cruelty free they feel no panick or pain and no noise is produced for the others to hear and freak out. It all very orderly and sress free thank goodness.
I have no problem with the butchering part and have done it many times. Just not the killing.
Most places never see or hear any live animals, just see the carcess coming through.
@@Bellenickna I'm going to guess small town that's a nope. Does raise questions about how farmers did butchering in the pre industrial era and what psychological impact that had on them
@@Bellenickna we took our apprentice chefs for a tour of the abattoir and fish suppliers, the cattle do go into a chute where they are shocked (out of view of the other cattle), then the drop into the line, first job is a guy who has to slice the throat and get in to sever the aorta, its a pretty up close job, and the way its setup it was one guy that did that one job all day...
A childhood classmate of mine ended up on a rabbit farm, harvesting rabbits with a hammer for their brains. He was pretty much the same before and after.
One of my friends was domestically abused by his partner and tried to report it several times and once got laughed at by a cop. He ended up losing a couple of fingers before the cops took it seriously and he considered himself luck that they did. It is still a serious problem for men reporting violence against them.
Yes, AH telling Johnny that no one would believe him if he came forward shows societies view on male abuse victims.
the lack of support for male victims is disgusting and its clear these perpetrators have picked up on that.
and yet they inst that women are the oppressed ones
@@Hromovlad1 dearie there's a lot of ways that oppression works. Men have their fair share of struggles that need to be addressed. Women's issues are unique and also important. Ever heard of the death penalty for abortions? The number of female and AFAB rape victims that are ignored? The general inequality and condecension towards women in technical fields? It's not black and white and *one* issue isn't going to prove or disprove that women are oppressed (and, I personally find that word has become a buzzword, there are a lot of women's issues that people neglect that could be labelled oppression). Society is a fickle beast and trying to push back against real concerns because someone *might* have it worse defeats the purpose of social reform. It needs attention for, and from, all sides.
@@spibow way to hijack the comment to complain about womens issues *again*
@@Battledongus My guy I was just trying to point out to the person I was replying to that women do have issues because they seem to think they don't. I'd like to note that I am a strong proponent for and activist of men's rights when it comes to parenting, abuse, rape, and body image, but it's also important to note that these issues exist for *everyone*. I'm leaving this comment section now because I got horrible social anxiety and I don't want to deal with people thinking I don't give a shit about men's issues when I want to make the world a better place for *everyone*. Not enough spoons.
Callum my man did you get that raise yet? You making Simon uncomfortable is hilarious air high 5 to you!
He probably got a room in the basement
He now get to eat a full banana instead of just bread
@@Gersti96 is it a furnished basement or full dungeon mode? 😆
Callum got his promotion. His typewriter was moved from Simon's dungeon towards his cupboard. Happy days for Callum 🤔😉
@@OGDonald_Duck89 I would suspect that he has a sleeping bag at best
Note to self: don't watch Casual Criminalist during lunch.
Unless you are having it accompanied with a fine Chianti...
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thank you for talking about male victims of DV. It is woefully under-reported. The Centers for Disease Control even did a study and found that Domestic Violence is roughly 50/50 between the sexes.
The resources for male victims of domestic violence globally are incredibly low. Many centers are dedicated to women, even when federally funded in the US, which is illegal. There is a victims shelter for men in Canada that received a lot of criticism and outrage during development and construction. I donated as much as I could to help them out.
If you're of even a remotely sensitive disposition, you'll wanna skip this one. You can't unhear it. I remember being 8 years old, going to a farm to pick out a new dog. I think this had just happened and I could hear the breeder describing the whole thing to my parents in gory detail (you know, as you do when making small talk.. in the presence of children) and it really traumatised me.
Good lord, I didn't scroll down fast enough. What a raving psycho.😳
The breeding process traumatized you?
Many adults grossly underestimate how much children are capable of comprehending, and understanding things they’ve overheard in day to day life.
@@blackhat4206 They say the person you are when you're 5 years old is who you are forever. We're conditioned in the same way that dogs are, incidentally. You've gotta be careful what you do around children.
@@frankcooke1692 Indeed. It is a horrible shame for one’s earliest memories to be so traumatic, even greater for the scars that trauma will undoubtedly manifest in the future. I’m sorry you had to hear these grisly details at a young age, and I can’t imagine how that would shape a young mind.
Yeah, no. My mom taught me "Never let anyone disrespect or hurt you no matter what they look like. And don't you dare disrespect others." A woman can do serious damage, especially with a weapon. I watched 2 fights in high school where dudes didn't defend themselves. One ended up with a broken nose, the other with stitches and serious damage to his testicles.
As someone with Borderline Personality Disorder, I think it's important to note that people with BPD are not like this at all. It's not touched on a lot in this episode, but it's of course a stigma because the words sound scarier than what the disorder actually is. Just like many, many murderers claiming to "hear voices" as a way to excuse their disgusting behavior because of the stigma behind Schizophrenia.
I just really want to note that people with BPD (and many other mental disorders), may have incredibly intense emotions, but we are also some of the most empathetic and warm-hearted people you will ever meet.
You’d have to be incredibly stupid to pull the insanity card since that effectively means you’re never getting out and you’ll be pumped full of Thorazine to keep you docile.
You know what? Thank you. I have a bipolar disorder and it feels like every person I see who have committed crimes has the same diagnosis. I live with the illness and I work my ass off to try and break the mold in my family and to be the best mother that I can possibly be. My goal since my children were born is that I break the shitty cycle my family has gone through for generations. Just because BPD is a frequent diagnosis with criminals, it doesn’t mean that every one of us is going to go out and murder someone.
Andddd, I’m finished with my soap box :)
@@kathrinen3834 That is amazing! I know exactly how hard attempting to break an awful cycle with a mental illness can be, and I can just imagine your strength - between motherhood, bipolar disorder, and what you grew up in! You are so incredibly strong and I am positive your family is so proud of you.
We may be dealt some crappy hands, but we will rise above it and change the way society views people with mental illness one day (soon, hopefully)!
(Sorry i couldn't resist my ADD got the better of me so I've edited out the typos, changed grammar, added a caution and tried to shorten words 😘) Soooo.....
Thankyou for sharing 🙂 Any mental health problems are terrible for the sufferers and I hope with all my heart you overcome the roller coaster of emotions and stress you live with every day. Have faith that with support & true friends life becomes less intimidating & you will find people that love you for exactly who you are.
I've heard due to the stigma of borderline its being renamed in the DSM. Mental health stigma is awful but we stand up with our heads high, we do our best, we treat people with respect & we show the world we are just as valuable to society as those without the experience we unfortunately have had.
I don't have BPD but I've met people with the condition & they struggle terribly, I've only known them to harm themselves not others. I have depression, anxiety, inattentive ADD & thanks to being raped by a co-worker PTSD - all exacerbated by an abusive 15yr marriage & the mental & emotional abuse that came with that. So I can't speak for you & what you're feeling but I"m behind you 100% no matter what (unless you leave your baby on a train track ;) because ultimately all we want is a tribe to belong to, to want us, to feel needed or useful, its what every single person on the planet needs regardless of their mental health. The lonliness that comes from having mental health issues is horrendous, I truly wish you all the happiness in the world.
If you don't mind me suggesting I found a lot of comfort in Buddhist teachings, its so simple & makes life so easy to understand. If you're open to it PLEASE look for a book called
"THE DHAMMAPADA". Its a collection of short verses eg "Hatred is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die" in short it only hurts us. There's short sayings that are applicable to absolutely every aspect of life. If you're religious don't worry, its not heresy, the buddha was a man not a god & buddhism respects all religions as long as they don't promote harming oneself or others. Please do look it up "THE DHAMMAPADA", if I had your address I'd send you mine 🙂 (SAFETY NOTE DO NOT reply with your address!!! Unless its a PO Box??? Actually best get one yourself, they are cheap)
But now I must put the brakes on my ADD & stop writing, so Good on you for speaking up for yourself & others. You are brave, intelligent and I admire you for it, as I'm sure many many others do. You need to love yourself & treat yourself like you would treat your own child x
(But not like the nutcase kathy did here in this video though 😉) ❤
Katherine i don't know where you are but Im in Western Australia and like I just told @cheeohdohz I have depression, anxiety, inattentive ADD, PTSD and history of abusive family relationships.
I don't kill spiders, I help anyone I can but I am constantly treated like a criminal by the mental health services here. They turn up unannounced, they ask me to detail where I am going, who with, what I've eaten, dinner dishy suffice I have to explain how much I've eaten and how many slices of cheese for example. Despite having no criminal record they can and do whenever they choose to put me on forms (involuntary hospitalisation with a permanent security guard on me until they let me go) I feel like "I"m a criminal and they are waiting to catch me in the act"
The reason? I was beaten and raped by a co-worker, had to resign, couldn't bear going to work after that, shortly after my abusive husband told me to commit suicide, when I didn't he left me and the kids. I was depressed but despite that I got my 11yo daughter to school every single day, took her to counselling as she'd witnessed abuse and was developing panic attacks. My 17yo son (very under the thumb of my abusive ex, apparently its common for kids to side with the abuser) took her to my parents house for a swim while he was housesitting then refused to let her come home. I got angry, uric to push into the house to see her, we argued he called the police and Child welfare. I was absolutely distraught at what was happening so police took me to hospital, while u was there for 3 days DCP put my 11yo daughter into my ex's care who uses meth and pills, he's an alcohic, smokes pot like cigarettes, has had her hospitalised from injuries she suffered from his drug use, when she was 9 he left her on the street at about 10pm while he jumped someones fence drunk and fell asleep on their backlawn, he'd told the school I was dead, the list continues. I showed DCP evidence of everything but because I had depression they deemed her emotional welfare was at risk with me and put her in his care without even organising me to have time with her and without even checking in on her once they closed the case. I swear on everybody I hold dear I am not exaggerating. This destroyed me and after losing her and the worry not being able to protect her my depression got the better of me and I attempted suicide, that was 5 years ago and because of that I'm still treated like a criminal. My daughter no longer goes to school, she is on drugs, having sex, is constantly verbalising suicidal ideation, has no parental boundaries and I'm can do absolutely nothing.
This video examples Australian child protection and megalithic health services well.
DCP put my 11yo daughter with a drug using abusive and neglectful father because I had admitted suffering depression and the mental health services are constantly on my back waiting for me to say or do something to warrent being locked up and formed.
I don't know what its like in other countries but I never in my worst nightmares would have thought that anything like this could happen in Australia.
That's my story and I know there are hundreds like it. We have mental health struggles but we're not criminals yet we're treated like ones and our children suffer because of it. My daughter has been robbed. They think depression in a mother is worse for an 11yo daughter than a drug-using neglectful father.
I'll stop sorry, my ADD meds make my anxiety worse so I can't them anymore hence I write way way way too much.
It takes a special kind of evil to harm a child.
I’ve harmed a few kids back in the day…
When I was a kid
My father and I stepped into an elevator with her after her suicide recovery. This was at the Mayter Hospital in Newcastle; where they had a secure psych unit on the 4th floor. We were on the third floor heading down, the elevator opened and she was standing at the back of the elevator cuffed and flanked by 4 police officers. Was super awkward and creepy. Now even more so i've heard her crimes in this much detail.
😳
I'm actually amazed the officers let you into the elevator. four officers moving a flight/public risk convict probably shouldn't allow that kind of break in a secure transport.
"What they didn't expect was to be thrown headfirst into a Silent Hill level." I lost it 😂
Simon:
"Never hit back."
My mom to me growing up:
"Never hit a woman. Unless it's to defend yourself. It doesnt matter if it is a man or woman if they are hitting you unprovoked, hit them back to make them stop. Never start a fight, but make damn sure you finish one if they start it."
Your mom is one hell of a women
@@Scalesthelizardwizard I appreciate that, and absolutely agree.
absolutely. fights should not be gendered. don't start a fight unless it's absolutely necessary, and if someone hits you, hit them back
@Dr. Bright who cares
@Dr. Bright trying to take "gender" away literally moves us back in time. Stop trying to be edgy 😓
15:18 JEN did you just add BABY HITLER to Simon's baby monologue! XD XD Legend!!
Jen you CAN'T just throw up baby Hitler like that! :'D
I literally raced to the comment section as soon as I saw the photo, I totally want to see if someone noticed it too! 😂
I just saw it! 😆🤣
I was wondering why there was a sepia toned baby...
Looks like my baby photos tbh
When it popped up I spit out my coffee and laughed so hard.
Yes, they favor the mother throughout the entire life of the child.
Had he taken the daughter with him, he would have been arrested for kidnapping.
This happens even with a documented history of abuse from the mother.
This crazy lived in the next town from me it was absolutely stunning. Everyone was totally blown out by it all. The thing that wasn’t mentioned is that after she killed him she took his bankcard and drove to the ATM in town and raided his bank account. This help to knock the diminished responsibility plea out of the picture.
I have seen multiple abusive relationships, both psychological and outright physical. Sadly in my experience the majority of these were the woman abusing the man. (Edit: my experience only, the data still clearly shows men as a more common abuser).
Male and female abusers all seemed to create the same sorts of excuses this criminal did to justify their excessive and abusive responses to relationship stress.
Folks, never ever sit by and let abuse happen. Let the victim know you are there for them. Record incidents for future prosecution, and report them if possible.
Additionally, (taking into account your local culture/police force/laws) feel free to beat their ass if you can, and at least defend yourself.
Boobs and Dicks...they aren't an excuse to be able to act with practical immunity.
Actually men and women are just as likely to abuse their spouse
Altho men are less likely to report it
I was in a psychologically and emotionally abusive relationship about 10 years ago. I'm still fucked up from it, and feel there's nowhere to really turn from it. Tried a help line once and was told flat out "we don't help men."
@@thatdamncrow9197 ..and 70% of non reciprocal abuse are done by the ladies.
Lesbian relationships are more often violent than any other demographic and 2 out of 3 murdered children are killed by mommy dearest.
So they're more violent it's just that they like a clear upper hand.
@@TheTurinturumbar if by children you mean infants then yes. Because many of those murders involve mental health that occurs from pregnancy
Like PPD which can become PPP (post partum psychosis)
Also, I would like to point out that this study is based on self reporting and perception. Often survivors of domestic violence minimize their partner's role in the abuse and take on much of the blame. It is also extremely common for the instigators of the violence to not accept responsibility and deny their role in abuse.
“Last Podcast on the Left” did a good episode on her. The description of the police looking at the crime scene really struck me.
The saw her victim’s skin as a curtain of some kind at first, like their brains wouldn’t let them process what they were actually seeing.
Quick comment about the ending of the video : I've read and watched a lot of stuff about psychopaths, sociopaths etc. Apparently, they DO get "softer" as they get older, so it wouldn't be surprising that she's adapting, developing *some* positive social skills, and calming down inside. I've heard that from professional psychiatrists, anyway. Apparently there are studies to back that up. Still doesn't quite mean she can be trusted and released (for what it's worth, it might be a calculated facade of "look I'm not dangerous anymore").
Right I heard the same recently. For a variety of reasons but they all make sense. One being peoples “energy” tends to wind down as they get older, the thrill may slightly change and lower, not to mention they’re already apprehended so they can’t go on sprees like before (oh, darn! 🫤) I’m sure they still daydream and absolutely relish in their memories (sick)
I remember reading about this when it happened, made all the more chilling for me personally for the fact that I myself was in an abusive marriage at the time. Unfortunately, as in many cases even today, being a man on the receiving end of said abuse meant that any physical, psychological, or emotional trauma was patently ignored, while any attempt to defend myself would immediately be interpreted as me myself being the abuser. The unfortunate but simple fact is that men are simply not believed or are told to "man up". If this is indeed changing for the better then it is long overdue, and I would highly encourage any young men who find themselves in a similar situation to seek assistance from the services mentioned at the end of the video so that they don't end up broke, homeless and living in their car as my kids and I did (or worse).
Just posted this on the post before yours but thought was appropriate.
I ain't ashamed to admit that an ex used to batter the crap out of me because I wouldn't hit back (would of walked but she was pregnant) One day when she went to the police with some crap about me attacking her, the police banged on my door at 4am nicking me for ABH. What she didn't know is that every mark she left on me, I took a pic so had quite a collection. I showed the police what I'd put up with for a year, they let me go with no charges.......and then didn't see my boy until he was 14 years old so even though I thought I'd got 1 over on her, I missed 14 years of my boys life.
@@brad270472 Damn. I'm sorry to hear that. I can unfortunately relate. There's one of my kids that I haven't seen since 2014.
Dude I ended up exactly that, broke & homeless, with a lot of emotional scarring.
@@brad270472 mate my heart goes out to you as a fellow victim.
Feminist say we (males)are disgusting pigs that are abusive and violent...
Yes some of us are admittedly but the last couple of years I'm starting to hear there are more men like us who are the victims of DV.
Yet there is no support for the male victim in a DV relationship like the support a woman gets
@@aussieausdeutschland4245 I can relate to the emotional scarring, still got a couple of the physical ones too. The classic was our boys 20 week scan. I wanted my keys back cos I was fed up with her smashing my place up, bleaching my clothes etc so she decided to sink her teeth into my arm outside the hospital and the only way I was allowed in was with a security guard each side of me in the scan room and all that, in front of my mum. I've not been really serious with anyone since cos I run a mile when I think things might go that way and looking back, I wish that I'd put her flat on her arse the first time she hit me, I might of been a bit of a git but she might of walked one way, me the other, I would now be a better version of me and I wouldn't of given her a second thought.... but, to her credit. When my boy said he wanted to meet me, she contacted me which was about 8 months ago and been to see him a couple of times, feels a bit surreal though. Suppose I'm the response of being told to man up, grow a pair and don't hit women, you try and live by that principal but it doesn't always work out how it should.
As an Australian I can say that in my experience this shows our mental heal are system in a good light. It’s been declining for years- there are countless stories of people desperate for especially crisis care and it just doesn’t exist. I know someone who has schizophrenia. You want to know how he used to get into hospital when he felt an episode coming on? He used to go to the local police station and jump onto the cop cars. If the police knew him and were unwilling to arrest him, he would take down his pants and wee on them so that he would be arrested for assault. He did this because he knew that after being arrested he couldn’t hurt anybody, no matter how bad his mental health got, and all he wanted was to not hurt anybody.
I’m curious about the twin sister. Was she just as cruel or did she somehow end up leading a fairly normal life? Did she experience the same abusive childhood and yet navigate a positive way through?
Right? I think it's really on how the individual deals with the cards they are dealt. If everyone murdered that had horrible childhoods, there would be a lot more grave plots.
She had a sex change and was known as Ivan Milat
@Casey SV7, also curious about this.
@Robert Burgess Kinda funny but very not cool dude. Besides, DoB doesn't work for that one.
Sometimes abusers also limit (some of) the abuse to (a) specific individual(s), just because a pair of twins grew up in the same house doesn't mean they had the same childhood.
If you knock two glasses off the table and they both break, they will break in different ways. Though both made of the same thing, they will shatter in different ways - while one glass may break into a thousand pieces, the other may break into a jaged edge weapon. The same trauma affects two different people in different ways.
I heard this podcast yesterday on spotify but honestly seeing Simon's reactions and Jen's editing makes listening to it again worth it :)
As someone that is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder…Jesus H. Christ. This is one of the most insane episodes yet
She got some co-morbidities with anti-social personality disorder, Narcissistic Personality disorder and possible psychopathy. Don't know if she had some paranoid delusions (the make believe cheating) also. There's no way she just had BPD. I have BPD and I'm not even a 0.1‰ of how violent she is. I could never leave my baby on train tracks or threaten the public with an axe!
@@marleyhill34 they did say she had post-partum depression. I've seen a case of a mother EATING her child because of that. It's some scary shit.
As someone recently diagnosed with BPD, i feel it varies from person to person. It was incredibly difficult for the psychiatrists to discern it from autism because BPD isn't that well understood yet.
@@heiltotheking a lot of people with BPD are on the autistic spectrum or have an attention disorder. I think there is a difference between post partum depression and post partum psychosis. There's been quite a few instances where mothers have murdered their new borns.....a but more common than we would like to think. BPD does vary from person to person but the more violent people that I've met with it have some other co-morbidities.
I have BPD, if you pushed me far enough I can see myself killing someone. That’s extreme though, and you’d have to push me pretty far. I don’t think when I explode with anger so I could theoretically kill someone if I snapped. Wouldn’t last as long as it did for her though, I calm down pretty quick once I’ve exploded so it’d be soon to instant regret, not chopping people up, couldn’t see myself doing that.
If you have enough triggers and the wrong situation at the wrong time, anyone can pretty much explode and hurt someone.
@@DresdenShuffle Yeah with my BPD, I know people have been scared that I will hurt them during episodes. But I have a bit more impulse control, conscience and empathy that deep down I don't want hurt anyone. If I killed someone, I would definitely want to stay permanently in prison or some secure facility. I work daily to keep myself safe and keep others safe from me.
I read the book about her when I was 19. My she was a piece of work. The book was passed amongst family and friends, and 20 years later we still make remarks like "I'll feed your kids soup" when we're annoyed.
Hey Simon! How about an episode on Esti Carranza! It’s got everything a good episode should have! Romance! Ice cream! Chainsaws! It’ll be great!
I’m really early this time! Also my phone is basically predicting this whole comment at this point. I hope enough people notice this…
23:00 more like 100 years in future:
“Remember when we use to eat animals Fred?”
“Save your breath Bob we haven’t outrun the cannibals yet!”
5 years from now: [Satire]
"Republicans are turning to cannibalism because owning the libs isn't enough they have to eat them too." "A Senior Republican was quoted as saying, "Its not murder to eat a vegan, cows and pigs are vegan and we eat them."" "When asked about the hipocracy about their stance of the sanctity of human life being breached the response was "libs arn't human.""
I hope this doesn't happen but the way things are turning out I would no longer be surprised.
100 years in the future: remember when there was hope?
well, this was...sobering. i hope her kids are alive and well. i can't imagine what growing up with her as a mother must've done to their brains. this whole story is just utterly heartbreaking. it's just too recent for comfort.
They always favor the mother, sometimes to the danger of the child. Stuff like this makes me think the death penalty needs to be kept around for extreme circumstances.
You're so right about kids. Prior to having kids I just didn't understand. Now that I have kids, it's utterly incomprehensible that anyone could harm any kid, much less their own. So crazy.
Always appreciate the heads up in the title when there’s cannibalism. Cannibalism is bad but surprise cannibalism hits differently than expected cannibalism. I have time to brace myself for the horror.
Would attempted cannibalism be a better fit? I think she cooked him and tried to eat him, but she couldn't. It was the whole skinning thing that really gets me caz I think he was still bleeding out when she started.
I remember this case (I'm in Aus) and the poor officers that had to go to the scene. There is a great documentary on it that interviews them and interviews Priceys mates that detail the psychological abuse he suffered and the hold that cow had on him explaining why he hadn't left. If children weren't involved I think he might have but she was a great manipulator. She will never get out, the whole country hates her too much.
He was addicted to sex, actually their relationship was mainly sexual. He didn't want to marry her and left her out of his will. Katherine was messed up good and Johnny knew about it but he wouldn't leave the sexual benefits.
The same happened with Jodi Arias, the guy had no intentions of marrying her but still smashed and dumped while keeping his "good mormon boy" image. Even after breaking up he kept on meeting Jodi for sex, he had sex with her the day she killed him 😑. I don't know why people do this, I think they are the ones who think hold the control because the woman is so willing to please them sexually.
I wouldn't date a man who I knew had been violent to previous partners, I also wouldn't date a man I didn't love him or had serious intentions of building a future and i would just date him to extract resources from him. That's cruel.
There are many men like Katherine who actually commit murder out of perceived jealousy or triggered by perceived abandonment.
I've been used as well and it's soul breaking, damaging. I didn't want to k1ll him or harm him but the pain and anger against myself was so great i wanted to end up my own life.
I think Katherine had bpd with sociopathic features because this disorder rarely externalizes rage but internalizes as self harm and suicidal behavior.
@@Sarablueunicorn women, plz....sure killing someone over a lover's spat is okay, but literally skinning them, making steaks out of their buttocks to serve the kids and boil their head in a stove with veggies crosses the line of being even human at this point (she literally told her brother and daughter several times before that she will do it exactly as she did and get away with it all by pleading insanity).
I'm a child from an abusive, divorced marriage and let me tell you, when things get violent enough that physical harm comes, there is no excuse then and the couple has to breakup and keep distance or else bad things happen, and it always falls upon those who raise their hands first, Katherine butchered someone out of emotion and even by some god miraculous grace she was on the right side, she still did the most lowest thing possible that we wouldn't even do to our greatest enemies in war.
Take shit like a human for once instead of bringing gender into everything, your only making people hate women more for playing the women card always.
@m-w-y7325 bit concerned by your attitude to murdering your lover if you have a row. I think you need a hard rethink on your values and maybe therapy/medication. That's really not OK. 😮
My wife lived in Australia. was married to an abusive man. He Choked her and threw her against a wall. When she got free and grabbed her daughter and hid while she was hiding he was running around outside with a shotgun firing it and screaming how he was going to destroy her. She called the cops which took 30 minutes to get there( we were friends (I lived in the US at the time) for years and she called me after calling the cops. I heard all the gunfire and the cops getting there.). They arrested him. 5 hours later they called her to come to pick him up as they were finished booking him. The Domestic violence laws are nuts there.
This was so tragic, he wasn't an angel but everyone who knew him said he was a really nice guy. He tried to get away from.her but she stalked him relentlessly.
Also, Australian law & mental health systems are improving when it comes to child protection & domestic violence. One of my friends had an abusive partner & he was able to get custody of his daughter before she was left on railroad tracks & that was 3 yrs ago
It's really common for those abused to return to the abusive relationship whether female or male.
I like the ending where they talk about abuse hotlines (even if it was forgotten to be linked in the description). You see some the inherent problems with laws around abuse and the difficulty in abuse cases for both genders. At least one of the reported cases just got thrown out because testimony disagree, the guy's friends refused to talk to the guy in an abusive relationship essentially pushing the blame onto him (and making him more reliant on the abuser for companionship) and repeatedly gaslighting the victims. His friends say they pleaded with him not to go back but not a single one went with him to get the kids despite the obvious physical abuse and him repeatedly "joking" about how his wife is going to kill him. Social stigma often goes against the abused just as much or more as the person abused and while less common can be even worse when the abused is male. The abused often get told to "just" leave, people ignore the signs, the abused tries to hide it or it becomes a joke.
Remember, if you are ever abused or think you know someone who is you can contact a hotline for advice and guidance to help.
"today's episode is enough to turn the toughest of stomachs"
>Me while eating lunch: "huh, gross"
When my kids grow up, I hope male survivors of domestic abuse are treated equally by society and the law.
Every survivor is amazing in my eyes. You have made it this far, and that’s great.
I also want to add that, while PTSD is very difficult to work with, there are some positive treatment options (EMDR, Psychotherapy and other forms of trauma therapy) and there are people working on improving that every day. So please don’t give up if you have PTSD, because you can still have a good quality of life 💜
Thanks, mate
That's the same thing I said 40 years ago when I realized that my mother as abusive. Didn't work then, I'm not optimistic now.
@@tmf866 I’m so sorry you and your family Went through that 🫂
I think in people under 30-35, there are some big cultural changes. I also think the legal system, media and such are run by older generations who are less inclined to employ younger folks who aren’t conservative.
I really do think change is happening, it’s just taking it’s sweet time getting to the big places. On a social level there are actually a few charities for men now, which is a huge difference! They need more funding, we need to talk about it more and support EVERYONE better. But I genuinely thing change is happening.
I hope you have the support you need and a great future 💜
I have PTSD I have a dog trained to help me. I don't know what I do with my sweet Cindy she just loves people and seems to know how to love everyone.People who meet her say that makes them feel better just petting her.😍♥️👍
@@janetrawlings1691 my dog isn’t trained, but is incredibly gentle and loving. She is SO kind and really seems to care for me. Makes a huge difference every day!
I would really like to know if the kids in this situation (hers, and the step-kids) are doing okay. We don't need to put them in the spotlight, but I very much hope they got the help they needed after this nightmare.
Yeah the horror they must've gone though knowing she served them their dad...
their mother never told them the truth about what happened to him, they only found out years later when one of them came across a news article about it in the paper, when they were older and assumable better able to handle it (though how well could anyone handle that). I actually think this was probably a good parenting choice to protect them.
I doubt anyone can be ok after that
"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some koala meat and a nice can of 4X." Fs-fs-fs-fs-fs 😂😂
Damn Jeremiah… they don’t call you “liver eating Johnson” for nothing.
Hilarious how well that lined up with your profile pic
Oh fuck I need to fill my census. But xxxx? Really?
@@jenniferschmitzer299 xxxx still better than fosters 😉
@@lafemmesue7273 I wouldn’t touch that with a 40 foot pole.
@@jenniferschmitzer299 I don’t know any Aussies that would 😁
Listening to Simon freak out when these things inevitably go sideways is one of my favorite things.
Thank you for the last part. I was in a abusive relationship a few years back and in the military, and was asked every day why I was 'fighting down the town'. I wasn't, I was getting the shit kicked out of me at home and felt I couldn't say anything and just took it for my kids. Thankfully out of that and better for it. It's horrific for anyone to deal with that, and it's really awkward to try and explain it. Thankfully I have some really good friends who lit a fire under me to get it sorted. I was more scared of fighting back because I'd be the monster then :( Last time it happened she went after me with a 9 inch knife and she found out what Infantry can do when she got Judo chucked through a door. That was a fun chat with the police.
A bone-chilling and horrific, but very entertaining episode guys, also with some perfect comedy timing from Jen.
Simon says he wouldn't make these jokes if he suspected his wife would kill him.
Simon has never joked about his wife killing him.
Danny and Sam aren't the only ones in the basement, lads.
Am i right peter?!?
What if Simon is the real prisoner? Being made to produce videos? Simon blink us morse code if you're not safe. Mind blown lol.
@@cookingonthecheapcheap6921
Oh man….
He definitely is in the basement we already know this. His “office” is below street level and the windows he talks about seeing the street cleaners through are near the ceiling Danny Callum Jen Sam and the rest are just his deteriorating mental state 🤣
Somebody going to think this is real
I felt physically sick just hearing the state of the crime scene. I can't imagine how the ones who had to process the scene felt
LMAOOO the whole spiel at the beginning about gender equality in true crime shows reminded me of how back when women's day happened this year, there were so many true crime podcasts promoted about killer women and like, I dunno, maybe I'm an outlier, but I feel like brutal inhuman murder isn't exactly #girlboss inspiration material
gaslight, gatekeep... genocide?
Agreed. 😬
Who tf cares
You should do an episode on Leonarda Cianciulli also know as The Soap-Maker of Correggio.
She had to prove she could dismember a corpse to the judge as they could not believe she could do it. They thought it was her son doing the crimes.
Oooh, yes! CALLUM AND JEN!!!!!!!!!!! I want to watch Simon's eyes boggle again lol
never heard of the case but im assuming soap made from humans?
@@heiltotheking and tea cakes that she fed to the cops that came over to talk to her about some missing people.
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This series is just Jen memeing on Simon and Callum trying to break him. I live for this.
If this video is sponsored by Hello Fresh I am going to laugh so hard I'll wake my mother.
Hannibal Lecter did not have a dungeon, though he was incarcerated in one. Buffalo Bill had a dungeon, and Hannibal Lecter helped find him, so it all works out one way or another.
“Simon, why are you trying to make sense of the crazy people? They are crazy, that’s their thing.” 🤣🤣
One of the great truths of our times, like "If you wonder why something happens, ask who made money"
Don't try to figure out the wacky, they're wacky!!
"... as if she had't tried to dispose of her child like an old cowboy film villain." Laughing my ass off.
"...If you don't give me the deed to your ranch, I'll tie you to the railroad tracks..." or words to that effect
and don't forget the opening animation of "Dudley Do-Right".
My ex-wife was emotionally and mentally manipulative and abusive. Even manipulated my own son to be afraid of my entire family, who were supportive of her and my son the whole time. Abuse is still abuse, physical or not.
Finally found something I disagree with Simon on, as far as I'm concerned if you swing a punch at anyone you better be ready to get one back. Equal rights and lefts.
I'm a lady and I agree👍.
Amen
Agreed
if i hit a man i surely expect a hit back. really hate this "a man can't hit a woman" mentality. it's literally the opposite of equality. with thinking that you are actually saying that a woman is lesser and weaker than you, like a child would be. you can always hit *back*
I've been in Australia for over 10 years and only found details of this case from your channel.
The thought of the poor officer seeing the hanging blanket.. pure nightmare material
..great podcast Simon
I believe in gender equality. Equal rights. Equal wages. Equal treatment.
And as part of equal treatment, regarding remarks around the 8:15 mark… equal ass-kicking if you take a swing at/pull a knife on me.
I support equal rights and lefts
My hands are rated E for Everybody
Equal rights, equal responsibility, equal consequences.
Equal rights Equal fights mfers
I am a surviving victim of domestic violence and I am a man. My ex was not shy in hitting me in front of our daughter or being financially and mentally abusive. I didn't dare go to the cops for fear of being laughed out of the station. As it ended, she decided to run and play the victim and because she spoke first, I was immediately looked at as the abuser because obviously, why would she come forward first otherwise? The system is far from changed or fair. People on an individual or societal level may understand the reality of the situation, but the machine that is the judicial branch is still working with old laws and mentalities unfortunately. Ultimately it costed me my daughter, who now 'safely' lives with her mother. God help her. I tried to protect her, and I was threatened with jail. The system is rigged if you're a guy and are abused.
This happened an hour away from where I grew up and I knew next to nothing about it until I listened to a podcast on it. It's mental what can go on in your own local area without you knowing until you actively look. One of my workmates DJ'd the christmas party for the abattoir she worked at the year before this happened and remembered seeing her there. He seemed pretty freaked out to have been in such close proximity, even if it only was for a short time.
Less than a minute in, I’m saying to myself, Simon, you’ll definitely have comments, so many comments. An Australian here who remembers the case very well. She is nuts!
Gives the term bunny boiler a whole new meaning.
15:16 Simon talking about leaving a baby to get run over on some train tacks: "... Of all the things we cover on Casual Criminalist, it just seems almost beyond the most insane of all of them. I don't understand."
**insert picture of baby Adolf Hitler here**
I just noticed that, I was like wait a minute, I've seen that picture in documentaries before...
So glad someone else noticed that. That was freaking funny!
I know someone who was in prison with her. She doesn't even show any remorse for what she did.
Just searched the house on google maps and I can't believe someone actually lives there. I wonder if they know the history of it?
My girl friend would tell me about the times when her dad had to put her mother in a headlock so she couldn't hit him with a frying pan. As for men being abused, Johnny Depp kept it a secret for quite a while even after Amber Heard smashed the end of one of his fingers and it needed to be surgically re-attached.
WTF does your comment have to do with the video? You do this when they have episodes of men killing their wives? No. You have no girlfriend. Hell you can't even spell "girlfriend" correctly. Just some Incel or MGTOW freak trying to get other men to hate women. Freak!!
@@tyrant7583 shhhhhhhhhhh no body cares
@@tyrant7583 triggered much?
@@tyrant7583 thank you! Every time you talk about men’s violence someone have to make a point that men gets abused to. It’s not okay ofc, but men mostly gets abused by other men. And for the headlock story, abusers are experts at lying. I was in an abusive relationship. I never used violence, not even to defend myself. The story my abuser is telling anyone and everyone that will listen is that I am crazy and that he only defended himself or had to use force to stop me from hurting myself. Abusers lie.
@@tyrant7583 what the fawk does a comment abiut spousal abuse have to do with a video abiu$t spousal abuse?
Yeah. Not that difficult to figure out.
Did anyone notice that the sweet montage of baby videos beginning at 15:00, when Simon is waxing fondly about how much he loves his children ends with a still shot of baby Adolph Hitler? "Savage."
Scrolled down just to see if anyone else noticed that. Jen is a savage.
The whole way through the story, I just kept saying wait til you get to the “main even” Simon.
Love watching you & hearing the way Callum puts the stories together.
Thanks for the entertainment.
Simon, Callum and Jen, you guys do a great job of explaining some of the most horrific crimes but I think you do a great job to even research, narrate and edit these stories. I don't enjoy them but they are fascinating in a terrible and a "thank God I was no way near there" sort of way. Good job.