It all started one fateful day in February 2000, Katherine Knight killed John Price in cold blood – but she didn’t stop there. 15 July 1987 – 21-year-old Rodney Thomas Clarke raped nine-year-old Deborah Keegan three times before suffocating her in her home in western Sydney, which she shared with her three sisters and mother. A conference that looked at the scourge of sexual predators in Brisbane last month drew delegates from all around the world — and the hot topic was the rise of female paedophiles. 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Katherine Mary Knight was born on October 24, 1955, to Ken Knight and Barbara Roughan. [6] Todd will serve a minimum of 35 years in prison before being eligible to apply for parole. Her fledgling business, Melbourne Wrestling Promotions, staged its first show on September 16, 2000 — a night after her husband was murdered. See demography of Australia. Growing up, Katherine was a bully. Studies show that female sex offenders are likely to be known to the victim and male coercion can be an important part of their offending. In June 1993, her remains were discovered at a property in. Katherine and John’s relationship was short lived and uneventful compared to her previous affairs. In a statement to the coroner, Greg Evans said: ‘‘When Annie started work at the Melbourne Club she did not like Vince [Leonardi] but after a while they became friends. A NOTE ABOUT RELEVANT ADVERTISING: We collect information about the content (including ads) you use across this site and use it to make both advertising and content more relevant to you on our network and other sites. It is a mystery that spreads from a tiny Filipino orphanage in Olongapo to the exclusive Melbourne Club at the top end of Collins Street. He treated the family badly and as a result they left home as soon as they could. All times AEST (GMT +10). She’d start fights with her classmates and even her teachers! For a while they all lived under one roof until in 1954 - during his wife’s second pregnancy - his lover Pontarollo simply disappeared. Parsons filled shelves at … John Silvester is a Walkley-award winning crime writer and columnist. Australia has seen its fair share of serial killers throughout the years – read on to find out about some of the most notoriously evil people from the land down under. grants honour memory & promise of comedian Eurydice Dixon", "No Apologies review: How female comedians do it tough in Australia", Eurydice in the short play "A Date with Death" in 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murder_of_Eurydice_Dixon&oldid=974762261, Pages containing links to subscription-only content, Articles with unsourced statements from February 2019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 24 August 2020, at 21:30.