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Yahoo
05-05-2025
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Grandmother Called Police and Said 2 Young Boys Were Dead — Then She Was Arrested
A pair of siblings were found dead following a welfare check The incident happened in the Australian state of New South Wales A 66-year-old woman has been arrested Police in southeastern Australia are investigating the deaths of two young boys who were found deceased following a welfare check. The boys, ages 6 and 7, were found dead in the town of Coonabarabran in the state of New South Wales on Monday, May 4, The Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Broadcasting Company and reported, citing NSW police. A 66-year-old woman was arrested from the scene and taken to the hospital, authorities said, per the outlets. Police say the woman allegedly called the Department of Communities and Justice and told them the children were dead, The Sydney Morning Herald reported, citing anonymous police sources. Responding officers found the boys deceased inside the home. Police have said there is no threat to the greater community, per the Australian Broadcasting Company and woman, who was not named in the reports, has been identified by The Sydney Morning Herald and as the children's grandmother. The identities of the boys were not revealed. She has not been charged. 'What has occurred is terrible and as a state we share in the community of Coonabarabran's grief at the loss of two young boys who had their entire futures ahead of them,' NSW Premier Chris Minns said, per Read the original article on People
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Yahoo
Grandmother Called Police and Said 2 Young Boys Were Dead — Then She Was Arrested
A pair of siblings were found dead following a welfare check The incident happened in the Australian state of New South Wales A 66-year-old woman has been arrested Police in southeastern Australia are investigating the deaths of two young boys who were found deceased following a welfare check. The boys, ages 6 and 7, were found dead in the town of Coonabarabran in the state of New South Wales on Monday, May 4, The Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Broadcasting Company and reported, citing NSW police. A 66-year-old woman was arrested from the scene and taken to the hospital, authorities said, per the outlets. Police say the woman allegedly called the Department of Communities and Justice and told them the children were dead, The Sydney Morning Herald reported, citing anonymous police sources. Responding officers found the boys deceased inside the home. Police have said there is no threat to the greater community, per the Australian Broadcasting Company and woman, who was not named in the reports, has been identified by The Sydney Morning Herald and as the children's grandmother. The identities of the boys were not revealed. She has not been charged. 'What has occurred is terrible and as a state we share in the community of Coonabarabran's grief at the loss of two young boys who had their entire futures ahead of them,' NSW Premier Chris Minns said, per Read the original article on People
Yahoo
04-05-2025
- Yahoo
After She Stabbed and Skinned Her Husband, Police Found a Gruesome Stew on the Stove — and Plates Set for His Kids
Katherine Knight's story reads like the plot of a horror movie. The first woman in Australian history to be sentenced to life in prison, Knight was arrested in 2001 after police found her passed out alongside her slain husband John Price, whom she had brutally stabbed to death before skinning him alive with intentions to serve his remains in a stew to his two children. It's fitting, then, that Knight was dubbed 'Australia's Hannibal Lecter,' according to the Australian Broadcasting Company and PEOPLE is looking back at the horrific 2001 murder case and the warning signs that investigators said preceded Price's gruesome death, all of which were documented in the book Blood Stains by journalist Peter Lalor a year later. Before the murder, Knight carried a certain reputation in her Aberdeen, New South Wales, community for being 'a very proficient meatworker,' neighbor Rick Banyard told ABC on the 20th anniversary of the murder. But Knight also had a short fuse, according to former detective Luke Taylor, who told that she had a penchant for being 'violent' that originated 'from an abusive childhood.' The outlet reported that Knight claimed she was sexually abused by different men in her family throughout her childhood, leading to a string of troubled relationships with men throughout her adult life. 'There were so many warning signs yet none were heeded,' Taylor said. Lalor's book on Knight explores some of these incidents: She was remembered by childhood classmates as a bully who once beat up a boy. She tried to strangle her first husband, David Kellett, on their wedding night and later fractured his skull with a frying pan during a domestic dispute. She also once killed another partner's dog and stabbed him with a pair of scissors. 'She was a horror movie in the making,' Taylor, the former detective, said. Knight and Price's relationship seemed like 'nothing out of the norm' to neighbors and coworkers, Barnyard told ABC. "I think, basically, nobody sort of expected any significant drama at all, let alone the crime that became recorded as one of the worst pieces of history in Australia,' he said. But Knight was abusive, and once stabbed Price during an argument, leading to Price getting a restraining order against her. But the couple briefly reconciled, according to the outlet. After another particularly tense dispute at home, Price reportedly warned coworkers that if he didn't show up for work the next day, they should call police and come look for him. Neighbors phoned officers the next morning, March 1, 2000, after becoming concerned about blood stains on the couple's front door. Police arrived and soon found Price's body mutilated inside the home, while Knight was found passed out nearby, reported. 'By the time I got to the scene, Katherine was leaving in an ambulance. She had taken some pills. Not enough to kill her, but they made her sleepy,' former Sergeant Robert Wells told the outlet earlier in 2025, 25 years after the gruesome killing. 'I walked inside and saw the human skin pelt hanging up, completely intact in one piece. John Price's decapitated and skinned body was lying on the floor in the loungeroom. We found his head, it had been boiled and cooked in a pot on the stove. There were a number of slices of rump, taken off his human rump, baked in the oven with some vegetables and put on plates, with the name of two of his children on them.'Knight was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2001 and later lost an appeal in 2006, according to The Guardian. 'The last minutes of [Price's] life must have been a time of abject terror for him, as they were a time of utter enjoyment for her,' supreme court justice Barry O'Keefe said at Knight's sentencing, according to the newspaper. He was stabbed 37 times before Knight began cutting up his body. Knight is the first woman in Australian history to receive a life sentence without parole. She remains in custody at Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre. If you are experiencing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or go to All calls are toll-free and confidential. The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages. Read the original article on People
NBC News
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
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Lucy Markovic, 'Australia's Next Top Model' star, dies at 27 of rare brain condition
Australian model Lucy Markovic, a star of "Australia's Next Top Model," has died of a rare brain condition, her representatives announced Thursday. She was 27. A post on her Instagram story confirmed the successful and prolific model's death. "I regret to inform you that Lucy has passed," the post read. "She was at peace. Me, her mother and my mother were present with her." "We ask you to please give us space in these hard times," it continued. It is unclear who posted the announcement to her account. Markovic died of an arteriovenous malformation (AVM) in her brain, her management company, Elite Model Management New York City, said in a Thursday statement. AVM is an "abnormal tangle of blood vessels" that cause issues with the connections between arteries and veins, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. It most often occurs in the spinal cord and brain. The Australian Broadcasting Company reported Markovic spoke about her condition on social media in March, in a post that appears to have since been deleted. She told followers she needed surgery for an AVM 'the size of a golf ball," originally scheduled for March 26 but moved to April 2. Markovic rose to stardom as the runner up on season 9 of 'Australia's Next Top Model' in 2015, losing by one point to Brittany Beattie. She was only a teenager at the time. She later went on to work for high end brands like Armani, Versace and Victoria Beckham. 'Modeling was one of Lucy's dreams, and we are deeply honored to have been part of that journey with her," her management company posted. "She brought elegance, strength, and beauty to her work. But more than that, she brought herself — her warmth, her laughter, her light.' Donatella Versace honored the late model as well, sharing a photo of Markovic walking the runway for one of her shows in 2023 on her Instagram story, writing 'Rest in peace beautiful girl.' "Lucy was a bright shining light, and had an incredible dry sense of humor," Elite Model Management said. "Her smile and laughter could light up a room, and draw you closer to her. She loved to dance, she really shined."
Yahoo
17-03-2025
- Yahoo
Australian Mom Of 5 Plotted To Sell Human Toes Chewed By Dogs
An Australian woman pleaded guilty on Monday to a plot in which she attempted to sell two human toes from a deceased man. Joanna Kathlyn Kinman, 48, of Melbourne, was charged with offensive conduct involving human remains, but will avoid jail time despite a magistrate calling the crime 'astounding' and 'distressing.' Instead, she was given a community corrections order that will allow her to serve her sentence in the community, according to the Australian Broadcasting Company. Kinman was employed at a Melbourne animal shelter in February 2024 when two dogs whose owner had died of natural causes arrived. Apparently, the dogs had eaten parts of the man's body before he was discovered and then vomited up some of his remains, including two toes, at the shelter. Kinman did not witness this, but she later found the toes in a wheeled bin at the shelter, took them home and placed them in a jar with formaldehyde, prosecutors told the court, according to Authorities say she then called her daughter and said she planned to sell the toes online and believed she could get the equivalent of $250 for them. Police later showed up at Kinman's home after getting a tip from an unknown source. Authorities say she admitted to possessing the toes and intending to sell them online. 'I thought, cool, it's a toe,' she reportedly told detectives. Officers said that Kinman showed them the toes, which were in a jar. She also had an alligator claw, a bird skull, a guinea pig trotter and her children's teeth. Further investigation showed that Kinman was a member of a Facebook group called 'Bone Buddies Australia,' where she previously sold 'wet specimens' of a stillborn kitten and puppy. Kinman's attorney, Rainer Martini, told the court that he understood why the community might be 'repulsed' by his client's actions. He noted that she is no longer employed at the animal shelter. 'Well, that's hardly a surprise,' Magistrate Andrew Sim responded, according to the Australian Broadcasting Company. Still, Martini said his client's actions were 'a purely spur-of-the-moment decision' and that the consequences have been 'significantly negative to her.' Detective Andrew Austin told the court that the dead man's son was aware that Kinman had taken the toes, but said he had not informed other family members to avoid causing them additional suffering. The judge called Kinman's actions 'entirely odd,' but sentenced her to an 18-month community corrections order rather than time behind bars, the Australian Broadcasting Company reported. 'By the barest of possible margins you will not be going to jail today,' Sim told Kinman. 'You were dealing with body parts of a deceased person. That person would have expected they would have been treated with dignity and respect by any person who came into contact with their remains. You failed to do that.'
