David Kellet

 

In 1973 Katherine started David Kellett who was also her co-worker at the abattoir and later in 1974, they got married. David was an alcoholic and arrived at their wedding heavily intoxicated. On the night of their wedding, Katherine strangled David because she claimed he had fallen asleep on her several times during intercourse. Their marriage was very violent and many times they got into altercations. While Katherine was pregnant, she took it upon herself to burn David’s belongings such as clothes and shoes because she accused him of cheating because he arrived home late. After this, she hit him across the head with a frying pan. David was treated for a fractured skull and because of this the police wanted to charge her, but she talked David into dropping the charges. In 1976 David left Katherine for another woman and moved to Queensland. During this time Katherine’s daughter Melissa Ann was born. Katherine could not bear the separation from David she was seen acting weird by violently pushing her daughter in a scroller from side to side. This resulted in her being admitted to St. Elmo’s Hospital in Tamworth where she was diagnosed with postnatal depression, but she was released several weeks later after recovering.

After being released from the hospital Katherine left two-month-old Melissa Ann on a railroad track and went into town with an axe that she stole threatening to kill people.  An older man known in town saw Melissa Ann and rescued her before a train passed. Katherine was arrested after this incident and admitted again to St. Elmo’s Hospital.

Do you think Katherine did these things for attention or was she mentally unstable? 

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