In the Williams case, who let's even the lowest of government employees go AWOL for 7 days before checking on them let alone someone working at the operational level? I'd look into his supervisors and see if there's any connections to outside influence.
@@EKk8819 that's what I was trying to imply. I really, truly believe there's a connection but they might be a bit too high up the chain that it'll be difficult to investigate especially for local PD.
@@makepeoplemad similar experience when I was in the Army, that's what made me think of that theory the first time I heard the case. There's no way in hell that someone in his CoC didn't raise a flag so it had to be a supervisor close to him that didn't report him missing or someone high enough in the chain to squash any investigation.
@@EphemeralProductions Im assuming she was a master manipulator of peoples emotions. That and a damn freak in bed. I mean, she got pissed off that her one husband only got her off 3 times the night of their wedding.
Case 1- Feels like a government cover up when you consider how investigators seemed more interested in discrediting the victim and unusual features of the crime scene. Case 2-The real question is how Catherine managed to get discharged from all these psychiatric hospitals despite her instability.
Because the psychiatric industry is a sham. I don't mean that mental illness is fake, or that there isn't any treatment. Rather what I mean is that a huge portion of the so-called "professionals" in the industry have no idea what they're doing or what they're talking about. I wouldn't trust them with a pet hamster, much less psychopathic killer.
Case 1 I agree they seem so focused on discrediting the victim than solving the case I'm wondering if this discrediting is a insurance policy just in case the victim trusted someone to hold something for him in the event of his demise
Your theory about #1 would also explain why there was no forced entry into the apartment. It could have been someone he worked with at M16. And he voluntarily let them in. Who knows why MI6 would have killed him, but when you're dealing with top secret information, I can think of any number of reasons.
So, Garreth was living in a safe house because of his work and yet two unidentified people entered the building he was living in, and somehow all of this happened unnoticed for 10 days? That''s a fairytale. In my opinion he was killed by his coworkers. For sure.
The "safehouse" was an apartment, not the entire building. People have to come and go from apartment buildings. And if everyone who entered that building or who had a visitor was questioned by secret agents, that would raise some serious red flags.
@@RaynmanPlaysyeah because mi-6, essentially britain’s CIA, would keep a safe house apartment that just anyone can walk into without being known. THINK.
Not everything is a James Bond grand conspiracy, no matter how much you want it to be. Almost everyone you know is into weird kinks you'll never know of.
Story 1: Why would it take a whole 7 days of missed work before anyone checked on him? I work a lame office job and even 1 missed day would make my employer very concerned.
So after Katherine puts her baby on a rail track and threatened someone using an axe, she was only sent to a mental hospital?? And she discharged herself?? And David went back with her despite all of this??? What the fu-
@@based-ys9um That’s a side effect of a patriarchal society, infantilizing women. You get evil and horrid women, treated with leniency simply because they’re women.
To be fair having gone to the hospital would make you look more credible, she probably realized the only way out faster would be to cooperate and give people a false sense of hope that she changed, thus another chance at getting her revenge. Classic psycho :(
Quick correction : If I'm not mistaken, the photo of the old lady at 28:50 is of russian serial killer Tamara Mitrofanovna Samsonova also know as the "Granny Ripper", not Katherine ! She was suspected of having eaten parts of her victims as well.
@@thesecretshade but that would mean she lowered the bar so absurdly much that the bare minimum was considered "model", and keep in mind they admit she was an asshole to her peers most of the time. It is an interesting reflection on how she manipulates those around her to respond to her behavior. Just like it is with the husbands she was abusive to. Most of the time she is horrible to them, but acts nice for brief moments in between. This leads to those around her feeling that her doing the bare minimum is something to be relieved about
The TV series 'London Spy' was inspired by Gareth Williams' case although only loosely as the spy isn't British and his boyfriend who is the lead character in it, (played by Ben Wishaw of Paddington fame) not only finds out his boyfriend was a spy after he is murdered via a locked trunk, but also finds himself wrongly suspected to be the killer.
I usually don’t like hearing about a “case” frequently. I’d heard of Katherine Knight before, but the approach to her presentation in this video was fantastic. It was an abhorrent situation, and the officers who discovered John’s skin on the meat hook and his crudely arranged body with legs crossed and arm around a bottle have made it perfectly clear that this woman was not unaware of her actions.
What the hell was it with Katherine that these guys kept going back to her. Like, I understand being lonely sucks, but being with a person that evil is far worse, and more dangerous.
Some form of Stockholm's? I honestly can't wrap my head around it either, as the partners split from her before because of her deranged behaviour, and still chose to get back with her, and even have kids with her
@@rumpeltyltskyn I read two books about her case that suggested she was very good in bed, which was what kept those guys coming back. Sadly, some blokes think with their little brains, not their big brains.
Knowing who Gareth worked for it wouldn't suprise if they had a hand in his death because he could have had information that he was going to spill the beans about and he was murdered to prevent him from doing it wouldn't be the first time that these security organisations have done something like that would it
@@db6341 I agree, I think they probably do it a lot. They must have a fair amount of people leave over the years but you hardly hear anyone who’s “ex MI5\6”. They likely thought the heating would speed up the decomposition (as Lazy said) and perhaps thought 7 days at those temps would completely have just made him human soup. I’d hate to be the scientist that worked THAT out 😅 I do think though, that it’s not out of the realms of believability that he was killed by foreign agents either. Being any kind of spy will absolutely come with all of those kinds of threats. I don’t think many who go into it realise how truly dangerous work it is and perhaps think their own agency will look after them but the agency will pick keeping their secrets over protecting a life anytime. Or they think “it’ll never happen to me”. Like that scientist who slit his wrists inside the car that was locked from the outside (whose reputation was slandered also), I don’t think we’ll ever find this stuff out.
So Katherine was sentenced to a psychiatric hospital, but the next day told the staff she's going to leave. And they said "Cool, we need the extra bed. Have a good day". How is this a thing? Do the prisons also have that policy that if you don't feel like being there, you can just ask to be released and be on your way? *edit* Oh it's in Australia! That explains much. "She'll be right" is probably all anyone said
They can't make someone stay against their will :/ it's a bit twisted but maybe she got away from the hospital by claiming them as just being psychotic episodes from something as simple as stress... She also might've been great at acting fine.
@@TaiAngel01 I’m a psychiatrist, albeit in the UK. There is an interesting and often implicit but rarely stated sex difference in such cases. Society generally believes that when a man behaves in such a fashion it is because he is fundamentally wicked and needs to be in prison, but when women act out in such a psychopathic manner it is because they have some untreated underlying mental illness and therefore must be dealt with in the mental health system. I can see no evidence from this presentation of the case that she is in any way mentally ill as such, although she is clearly not “normal” but throughout she seems to be fully aware of her actions and the moral rightness and wrongness of them- she’s cold, calculating and driven with no empathy, compassion or genuine remorse- a classic psychopath. And this is something the public need to know- such people in psychiatric settings in the absence of other major psychiatric illness (eg schizophrenia) actually get worse. They become more psychopathic and learn how to hide it better. They are best ‘treated’ within the prison system.
Katherine Knight was a wild case. So many red flags there. If only she received help as a teen, maybe, just maybe she’d love a somewhat normal life but that’s wishful thinking. Gareth Williams is definitely mind boggling case.
@@AnnieNorthman89 I also feel a need to add. Her aggression is definitely from her father's aggression. Having Borderline doesnt make you inherently or homicidal or abusive
I think that's definitely wishful thinking. There are countless people in this world who have been abused as children, just like Kathrine was, and yet the vast majority of them don't turn out to be psychopathic killers. This doesn't mean that abuse has zero impact on people, but it does mean that there's a pretty darn good chance that Kathrine would have turned out to be a monster regardless of what her upbringing was like.
My man you have no idea, I’m spending one of the loneliest nights of my life and I was literally praying You’ll upload a video so I can take my mind off things for a bit, I’m glad my prayers were answered
I absolutely love when you upload. Always very interesting and engaging content. I used to listen all the time since around 2015 when I was in high school and played solitaire binging your videos. This was back when CorpseHusband used to do reddit readings like you. Long time has passed, but you've always been my personal favorite. Thanks for everything Mr. Masquerade.
@@ImTooWeeeeaakkk Killing is killing. Cant rationalize barbaric acts besides not many people actually needs to hunt anymore, its done as a vile "sport".
@@ImTooWeeeeaakkk we dont have to bring ethics into it, just well known psychology. If you kill for whatever reason, its mentally scaring, even when someone tries to rationalize it, eg. soldiers.
My mother was extremely similar to Katherine, from her early to late life. It gives me chills to know that other people have had to suffer under a woman like that.
I'm so sorry you had to put up with that. My own mother has always been a selfish, people pleasing, irresponsible, scatty and emotionally abusive and dismissive woman. She's been a recovering alcoholic longer than I've been alive and I do suspect she has some form of BPD. If not narcissism due to alcohol abuse affecting her brain.
Katherine is surprisingly very well liked in the prison. She’s actually referred to as “Nanna” and crochets and has the prison sell her paintings for charity, though they’re all unsigned by her choice. She’s sort of a queen bee/leader with a take no shit personality, but is described by others as a gentle soul (crazy, right?). She regularly stops other inmates from stealing or fighting, but has apparently never done so violently. Shit’s insane, man.
What I find insane and dismal is that men were willing to breed with that psychopath despite all the red flags Katherine was showing. For he record, this is not a victim blaming comment, just pointing it out and confused how her last husband just sleeps with her despite getting a restraining order against her. Ffs she slit a pet's throat in front of one of her men as a warning, she'd beat them with a frying pan, and destroyed their clothes! Those are red flags. If the guy who got killed by Katherine hadn't allowed her back in some odd way, he'd still be alive. I swear, if you don't word your thoughts rights on this site, people will misconstrue it. You could say, "I love pancakes" then some jerk will ask "oh so you hate waffles?" Like, what?! No! That's an entire different matter.
My guess is that they left the key because they needed it to appear as though he did it to himself,so if no key was left,it would prove another person was involved
Gareth was murdered by a government agency...English or Russian (or US) I'm not sure..but was murdered nevertheless, imo. Not sure how one can come to another conclusion.
I would venture a guess that the agency he worked for was involved. Garreth being a no call no show for even a day should've warranted a wellfare check. Yet they waited how long? Long enough for the heat to do its job.
Grizzly crime! Oh I love that. It just makes me think of a bear sneaking into someone's house and stealing their jewelry. XD The word you meant is 'grisly', they sound the same but grisly is like gristle which you get in meat. Not trying to be grammar police, I just love the visual you gave me. :D
The first case…. I grew up in cheltenham, many friends parents worked at GCHQ. Lots of eery stories and rumours always floating around about what goes on inside. It’s a very strange building, 90% of it is underground.
This is the most in-depth story I have seen on Gareth's case. I have been fascinated and disturbed by his case since the news broke about his death. I had never heard about some of the evidence you presented. It does not change my mind in fact it makes me more certain than ever that he DID NOT kill himself. As for padlocks you don't need a key to lock it and the fact that they found no fingerprints I mean come on the guy was living there so there should have been fingerprints everywhere so someone had a good clean ater stuffing him in the bag either by threeats or by drugging him with something that wouldn't take long to leave to residual traces in the body.
There is way too much evidence proving that it was probably inside job. They did check on him after 7 days which is extremly weird, no fingerprints, no signs of somebody tempering with door's locks to get inside which means Gareth probably invited somebody inside, equipment being moved inside of house despite gurads being there 24/7, escape artists not being able to recreate "trick" that Gareth did. It's just way too much to think it was just accident.
Hey Lazy, do you have plans to ever upload anymore scary stories that aren't based off of crime cases? Like the videos you used to upload like folklore, personal accounts, break ins, "let's not meet", and other types of videos in that style? I love your videos and I'd really like to see more of that content again!
Imagine having your friend die right in front of you, accidentally killing multiple children in an accident, and then almost having your own child killed by your ex-girlfriend. Don't know how he made it through the day.
Having your friend die VERY VERY VIOLENTLY right in front of you, at that. Though, he himself didn't have any involvement in the bus accident himself aside from apparently rescuing some of the children.
I remember hearing about the Garreth Williams story on Blameitonjorge's channel years ago, but since it was a list video he didn't go into much detail. Glad to hear more of the story now.
You have the absolute best intro title cards on youtube. They really evoke a strangely familiar mood and feeling I can't exactly describe or put my finger on, it's very mysterious and nostalgic.
the second you mentioned the US source reporting information about Gareth's death to The Sun of all places...yeah i'm taking that one with a VERY large grain of salt.
The story about Katherine is mind blowing 🤯 How and why did men keep giving her chance after change? She’s hideous, both on the inside and the outside. I also can’t understand why she kept getting released from mental hospitals. Everyone failed John except the final judge that locked her up for good.
The woman in the second case, Katherine, must've been unbelievably charming and convincing when needed. Nothing else can explain why the men in her life always took her back.
Why on earth did they keep letting Catherine out of mental facilities, like wth were they running on a honor system in which case she still shouldn't of been released as she clearly showed violent tendencies
The Katherine Knight case is always weird for me because my parents are named Kathy and John, and my mom has more than a few things in common with Ms Knight. Though at least she never tried to feed me my father... (she has admitted to planning to kill me as a young child, though not with a train. She was going to drown me in the bathtub. I think the main reason she didn't is that she's small and has had a severe back injury since she was young, and i was big and strong for my age, so she wasn't sure that she could overpower me)
The suitcase story, a theory: Potentially yes indeed part of a sex thing, but with an extra person there who sealed him in the bag and was meant to let him out. Instead, they wiped down the scene including his phone, turned up the heat, and left him there to die.
On Gareth, a small detail: they wouldn't have needed a secondary key for the padlock, padlocks can normally be locked without the key by just pushing it shut.
I feel so bad for all the men Katherine has abused, they didn't deserve any of this and it's infuriating that she got away with so much. I'm convinced she wouldn't have been able to murder had she been trialed or stayed in care where she was placed earlier in her life.
It is entirely impossible to zip a duffel bag all the way up, lock it, then somehow miraculously pull in your hand and keep the lock inside. He may have found something that would cause him to become a whistleblower. MI6 called ‘assets’
November 2nd 1991: My mother Emma was a newly arrived immigrants to the United States from Honduras. That night my baby brother was only six hours old. Since my mother didn't have insurance she had to go a few blocks down to the pharmacy and get her meds there. On her way walking down, a strange man in a taxi came up to her. My mother still had two and a half blocks to walk and the man insisted to my mom "hey you want a ride?" Seeming like an okay fellow my mom got in the car. As he drove past the pharmacy that my mom wanted to go to my mother asked him "Hey I need to go to this pharmacy. Can you please turn around?" The man looked at my mother and told her that he knew of a better pharmacy just a few more blocks down. My mother not thinking twice about it trusted him and let him continue driving. It was 130 in the morning. The man continued driving for another 5 minutes. It was here that my mother started to panic. This took place in Brooklyn. My mother wasn't sure where she was but she soon realized they were in a secluded, dark and quiet part of Brooklyn. She was pleading for her life "Please!!! Please let me out of the car!! I'm no good I just had a baby and I'm bleeding very heavily. My baby's only six hours old please let me get back to him please". The man looked in his rearview mirror. The entire time he was masturbating to my mom pleading for her life. He got out of the car, saw that my mother couldnt move, stood up for like a few seconds by the driver side, looked at my mother through the window with what my mother could only describe as the smile of absolute evil, and simply said....."Okay"....he then got in the car, drove my mom to the nearest pharmacy, then seemingly left. My mom tried to report him but he was gone and she couldn't remember any details because she didn't speak English very well at the time. The fucked up part was is that after she left the pharmacy he was waiting around the corner again for her and told her to get in the car. She screamed at him and told him get the fuck away from me or I'm going to call the cops right now. He sped off into the darkness and to this very day...my mother wonders whether that man, whoever he was, harmed other immigrant women like he almost did my mother. She wonders if he is still out there, still alive, still prowling the streets like a predator in the night....he was a Spanish male, 5'10 in height, normal build, but with features so dark she couldn't discern any particulars barring his predatory smile. He was fluent in both English and Spanish from what she remembers. She still has nightmares about that incident. Edit: I felt.....this was the proper channel to share my mother's story. If anyone has any information regarding something similar PLEASEEEEE share with me. It would be highly appreciated 🙏
The cops in the Katherine Knight story - they entered the premises and were making their way through carefully. They were looking for the occupant, the snoring person and where was all the blood from? They have guns drawn and push aside a curtain over the doorway to enter the next room...then one of the cops realises his arm is wet, he looks and it is blood? He looks back at where he has been and that is when he realised that the curtain he had pushed aside to clear the next room, was actually a human skin. Just hanging over the doorway. Those cops absolutely needed some therapy and likely do to this day.
Great stuff as always Lazy. I do kind of miss some of your old stuff. The old supernatural content you used to make back in the day. Be fun to revisit that style I think.
25:14 Thank you so much for editing that word out. My generation Z ears can't take hearing stuff like that. Well, time to go get my s-- change operation.
Last photo of ‘Katherine behind bars’… She has her hand around the shoulder of a former Vatican and Australian Cardinal George Pell. The filthy grub has done worse than Katherine believe it or not. Another great video Lazy
Katherine must have been a master manipulator, because I cannot grasp how multiple men stayed with her for extended periods of time despite all these signs. I understand that her victim went home in fear of his kids lives, an action which I of course have all respect for. However, it is insane to me how this man did not leave her earlier with his kids. Only reasonable explanation I have is that she must've been one hell of a manipulator or had previously threatened to harm his kids if he offended her.
DID ANYONE NOTICE THAT THE PICTURE AT THE END IS NOT KATHRINE NIGHT,It is that old woman who killed her neighbor and loves human lungs for snacking,I can't remember her name but I think mr ballen did the story.(sorry lazy) lol
After story one, I’d like to say that my apartment never has the heat on because I like it cold and I would never ever willingly tie myself up! Dear lord that was beyond shady.
Thanks for watching! Any topics or cases you'd like me to cover in the near future? Let me know!
The diving incident is pretty interesting and disturbing
Are you interested in doing Missing 411 videos? I find those cases really interesting! Been watching you since you did skinwalker stories, huge fan :D
Sir.. how do u research so well for these videos?
Do deep dives on serial killers👌🏼
I would love to see more solved & unsolved mysteries Lazy!
In the Williams case, who let's even the lowest of government employees go AWOL for 7 days before checking on them let alone someone working at the operational level? I'd look into his supervisors and see if there's any connections to outside influence.
the people that killed him thats who...
@@EKk8819 that's what I was trying to imply. I really, truly believe there's a connection but they might be a bit too high up the chain that it'll be difficult to investigate especially for local PD.
@@makepeoplemad similar experience when I was in the Army, that's what made me think of that theory the first time I heard the case. There's no way in hell that someone in his CoC didn't raise a flag so it had to be a supervisor close to him that didn't report him missing or someone high enough in the chain to squash any investigation.
Seriously! Awfully suspicious.
Sounds like most likely there was. Id not be a single bit surprised
If Katherine had slit my pet's throat in front of me, I would be the one going to jail. How many warnings did people need with her behaviour?
She obviously had some weird hold over the men; blackmail too maybe?
@@EphemeralProductions Im assuming she was a master manipulator of peoples emotions. That and a damn freak in bed. I mean, she got pissed off that her one husband only got her off 3 times the night of their wedding.
Dead ass like the police will be called on me 😊
@@KDiamond666 and YOU probably would be the one thrown in prison just because you’re a man and she’s a woman.
@@KDiamond666 The police were definitely dead ass in this case.
Case 1- Feels like a government cover up when you consider how investigators seemed more interested in discrediting the victim and unusual features of the crime scene.
Case 2-The real question is how Catherine managed to get discharged from all these psychiatric hospitals despite her instability.
Because the psychiatric industry is a sham. I don't mean that mental illness is fake, or that there isn't any treatment. Rather what I mean is that a huge portion of the so-called "professionals" in the industry have no idea what they're doing or what they're talking about. I wouldn't trust them with a pet hamster, much less psychopathic killer.
Any time Russia is blamed just expect foul play from the western intelligence agencies😅
Case 1 I agree they seem so focused on discrediting the victim than solving the case I'm wondering if this discrediting is a insurance policy just in case the victim trusted someone to hold something for him in the event of his demise
Your theory about #1 would also explain why there was no forced entry into the apartment. It could have been someone he worked with at M16. And he voluntarily let them in. Who knows why MI6 would have killed him, but when you're dealing with top secret information, I can think of any number of reasons.
Case 2- she’s a nasty piece of work, not mentally ill. The “treatment” is incarceration in prison not a psych hospital.
So, Garreth was living in a safe house because of his work and yet two unidentified people entered the building he was living in, and somehow all of this happened unnoticed for 10 days? That''s a fairytale. In my opinion he was killed by his coworkers. For sure.
seems pretty obvious to me too
The "safehouse" was an apartment, not the entire building. People have to come and go from apartment buildings. And if everyone who entered that building or who had a visitor was questioned by secret agents, that would raise some serious red flags.
@@RaynmanPlaysyeah because mi-6, essentially britain’s CIA, would keep a safe house apartment that just anyone can walk into without being known.
THINK.
Yeah happens a lot in agencies tbh.
@@RaynmanPlaysyet this guy you replied to has 500 upvotes lol. People just don’t listen huh
Either way what a cool story. Morbid, but cool.
The homeless man who rescued the child is an unsung hero
Unfortunately, society would rather celebrate a heroic dog over a heroic person who happens not to have a permanent home.
What else was he going to do? Take a wizz on it and watch it get splattered?
Well write a song about it!
@@Pigpigpigpigpigpigpigpigpigpigwow really? YOU go ahead AND write the first verse AND the chorus sheesh bitter much?
"Old Ted" was his name.
It wasn't enough to kill Gareth, they had to also kill his reputation.
That's espionage for you: destroy, discredit, disinform
Not everything is a James Bond grand conspiracy, no matter how much you want it to be. Almost everyone you know is into weird kinks you'll never know of.
@@CadaverJunky8 Even if all the woman's clothing was his, there's still the suitcase.
@@CadaverJunky8And none of that is anyone else’s business.
@@CadaverJunky8 no fam we’re not as weird as you 💀
Calling her the "female Hannibal" is an overstatement of her capabilities, she's more of a "female leather face" than anything else! 🤔
True
Even female Eric Cartman
Imagine being born in 1955, in a developed country, and actually being completely illiterate at the age of 15.
Not everyone achieves their dreams.
@@yayhandles imagine being illiterate and called a model student lmao
“After watching him kill a bunch of pigs she fell head over heels in love with him,” Never has a sentence created such visceral disgust in me before.
Story 1: Why would it take a whole 7 days of missed work before anyone checked on him? I work a lame office job and even 1 missed day would make my employer very concerned.
Hell, if I'm ten minutes late because of the bus, I get text messages from the assistant supervisor asking if I'm okay and if I'm still coming in.
@@Pipkiablo Same!! lol hence why that story seems to me very sus 👀
Because they were probably responsible on some level
@@Michael_Breiter innit
Might not be a good job but at least your boss cares about you so there's that
So after Katherine puts her baby on a rail track and threatened someone using an axe, she was only sent to a mental hospital?? And she discharged herself?? And David went back with her despite all of this??? What the fu-
Female privilege unfortunately. It's a huge issue
Female privilege as well as John being an idiot.
@@based-ys9um That’s a side effect of a patriarchal society, infantilizing women.
You get evil and horrid women, treated with leniency simply because they’re women.
To be fair having gone to the hospital would make you look more credible, she probably realized the only way out faster would be to cooperate and give people a false sense of hope that she changed, thus another chance at getting her revenge. Classic psycho :(
@@stzcolsefMost likely. I've known people who weren't dangerous psychopaths who feigned being better or wanting to change to be released early.
Quick correction : If I'm not mistaken, the photo of the old lady at 28:50 is of russian serial killer Tamara Mitrofanovna Samsonova also know as the "Granny Ripper", not Katherine ! She was suspected of having eaten parts of her victims as well.
It is her indeed.
Lungs were her favorite food.
Yes. That's Samsonova.
Yup, lovely Tammy on that pic
Katherine was described as a model student… that couldn’t read or write at 15…
Probably just means she gave the teachers no problems or attitude.
I laughed at that too
@@thesecretshade but that would mean she lowered the bar so absurdly much that the bare minimum was considered "model", and keep in mind they admit she was an asshole to her peers most of the time. It is an interesting reflection on how she manipulates those around her to respond to her behavior. Just like it is with the husbands she was abusive to. Most of the time she is horrible to them, but acts nice for brief moments in between. This leads to those around her feeling that her doing the bare minimum is something to be relieved about
She was a student at a modeling school.😅😅
Nah bruh
The TV series 'London Spy' was inspired by Gareth Williams' case although only loosely as the spy isn't British and his boyfriend who is the lead character in it, (played by Ben Wishaw of Paddington fame) not only finds out his boyfriend was a spy after he is murdered via a locked trunk, but also finds himself wrongly suspected to be the killer.
I usually don’t like hearing about a “case” frequently. I’d heard of Katherine Knight before, but the approach to her presentation in this video was fantastic. It was an abhorrent situation, and the officers who discovered John’s skin on the meat hook and his crudely arranged body with legs crossed and arm around a bottle have made it perfectly clear that this woman was not unaware of her actions.
Also accusing him of abusing his kids. She was trying to get away with it, knew exactly what she was doing.
I think that David was deffo afraid of her. Not to mention Stockholm syndrome.
What the hell was it with Katherine that these guys kept going back to her.
Like, I understand being lonely sucks, but being with a person that evil is far worse, and more dangerous.
Some form of Stockholm's? I honestly can't wrap my head around it either, as the partners split from her before because of her deranged behaviour, and still chose to get back with her, and even have kids with her
@@imlewishehe Probably the classic, abuse -> lovebombing and promising to change -> abuse pattern you see with most abusers.
@@rumpeltyltskyn i agree with you there. it's not as common to see with men going back to women abusers but it's very likely
@@supposedlymel Provabky periods where she’s the *perfect* partner.
@@rumpeltyltskyn I read two books about her case that suggested she was very good in bed, which was what kept those guys coming back. Sadly, some blokes think with their little brains, not their big brains.
Knowing who Gareth worked for it wouldn't suprise if they had a hand in his death because he could have had information that he was going to spill the beans about and he was murdered to prevent him from doing it wouldn't be the first time that these security organisations have done something like that would it
I'm more surprised that it took "7 days" for them to decide on a wellfare check considering the type of work that he did.
shayler/dolores?
i dont think he even had to threaten snitching for them to do it, he simply knew too much
@@db6341 I agree, I think they probably do it a lot. They must have a fair amount of people leave over the years but you hardly hear anyone who’s “ex MI5\6”. They likely thought the heating would speed up the decomposition (as Lazy said) and perhaps thought 7 days at those temps would completely have just made him human soup. I’d hate to be the scientist that worked THAT out 😅
I do think though, that it’s not out of the realms of believability that he was killed by foreign agents either. Being any kind of spy will absolutely come with all of those kinds of threats. I don’t think many who go into it realise how truly dangerous work it is and perhaps think their own agency will look after them but the agency will pick keeping their secrets over protecting a life anytime. Or they think “it’ll never happen to me”.
Like that scientist who slit his wrists inside the car that was locked from the outside (whose reputation was slandered also), I don’t think we’ll ever find this stuff out.
The fact that his cipher was reset rather than stolen screams government hush job
You know it's going to be a good evening when Lazy has posted something
It's still afternoon
@@23Butanedione diffrent timezones
@@Quintapionwhatever you say bud, I have a window I can see outside. It's afternoon
@@23Butanedione darkness falls when Lazy get's going
For sure!
So Katherine was sentenced to a psychiatric hospital, but the next day told the staff she's going to leave. And they said "Cool, we need the extra bed. Have a good day". How is this a thing? Do the prisons also have that policy that if you don't feel like being there, you can just ask to be released and be on your way?
*edit* Oh it's in Australia! That explains much. "She'll be right" is probably all anyone said
They can't make someone stay against their will :/ it's a bit twisted but maybe she got away from the hospital by claiming them as just being psychotic episodes from something as simple as stress... She also might've been great at acting fine.
No, dude, that's not how it works with our jails, but defenatly in our mental health systems are shit
@@TaiAngel01 I’m a psychiatrist, albeit in the UK. There is an interesting and often implicit but rarely stated sex difference in such cases. Society generally believes that when a man behaves in such a fashion it is because he is fundamentally wicked and needs to be in prison, but when women act out in such a psychopathic manner it is because they have some untreated underlying mental illness and therefore must be dealt with in the mental health system. I can see no evidence from this presentation of the case that she is in any way mentally ill as such, although she is clearly not “normal” but throughout she seems to be fully aware of her actions and the moral rightness and wrongness of them- she’s cold, calculating and driven with no empathy, compassion or genuine remorse- a classic psychopath. And this is something the public need to know- such people in psychiatric settings in the absence of other major psychiatric illness (eg schizophrenia) actually get worse. They become more psychopathic and learn how to hide it better. They are best ‘treated’ within the prison system.
@@TaiAngel01Great u can just leave jail if you dobt like it.
Female privilege
I like how we get excited for Masquerade's upload about gruesome, horrifying cases
It's really not that crazy, we used to watch public hangings. Things made more sense back then
😂 you’re so cute
Imagine what kinds of videos Lazy has made on your namesake in the Breaking Bad universe
@@23Butanedione Dude, you go back there if you want. I suspect you would not find it to be any more sensible than any other time.
Katherine Knight was a wild case. So many red flags there. If only she received help as a teen, maybe, just maybe she’d love a somewhat normal life but that’s wishful thinking. Gareth Williams is definitely mind boggling case.
She needed help as a child.
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 Indeed. A lot of help.
@@AnnieNorthman89 I also feel a need to add. Her aggression is definitely from her father's aggression.
Having Borderline doesnt make you inherently or homicidal or abusive
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 That’s completely valid. You’re right about that.
I think that's definitely wishful thinking. There are countless people in this world who have been abused as children, just like Kathrine was, and yet the vast majority of them don't turn out to be psychopathic killers. This doesn't mean that abuse has zero impact on people, but it does mean that there's a pretty darn good chance that Kathrine would have turned out to be a monster regardless of what her upbringing was like.
My man you have no idea, I’m spending one of the loneliest nights of my life and I was literally praying You’ll upload a video so I can take my mind off things for a bit, I’m glad my prayers were answered
I hope things get better for you soon mate, I'm rooting for you :)
Hope you're doing okay, dude
Hang in there, it will get better in time, I hope.❤
Sending positive vibes your way ! And hoping that you get through the night and that tomorrow is a better day for you
I know what it feels like. Hang in there, my dude. Life can be rough, but better days will come again. Be kind to yourself ❤
He always handpicks the creepiest mysteries. I love these!
I absolutely love when you upload. Always very interesting and engaging content. I used to listen all the time since around 2015 when I was in high school and played solitaire binging your videos. This was back when CorpseHusband used to do reddit readings like you. Long time has passed, but you've always been my personal favorite. Thanks for everything Mr. Masquerade.
Agreed. I miss corpse husband.
Same
Katherine: “I noticed how skillfully and beautifully you slaughtered all of those pigs… take me out to dinner?” 😅😅
Killing small animals is a hallmark sign of psychopathy. Slaughter house workers even suffer mental issues killing sentient living beings.
@@ImTooWeeeeaakkk Killing is killing. Cant rationalize barbaric acts besides not many people actually needs to hunt anymore, its done as a vile "sport".
@@ImTooWeeeeaakkk we dont have to bring ethics into it, just well known psychology. If you kill for whatever reason, its mentally scaring, even when someone tries to rationalize it, eg. soldiers.
Kathrine: seeing you slaughter animals makes me so horny
"Whoa! Sorry Houston, just had to dodge a massive red flag" -ISS
My mother was extremely similar to Katherine, from her early to late life. It gives me chills to know that other people have had to suffer under a woman like that.
I'm so sorry you had to put up with that. My own mother has always been a selfish, people pleasing, irresponsible, scatty and emotionally abusive and dismissive woman. She's been a recovering alcoholic longer than I've been alive and I do suspect she has some form of BPD. If not narcissism due to alcohol abuse affecting her brain.
Lazy should read audio books, his voice is so soothing, even when he's talking about gruesome murders!!!
Katherine is surprisingly very well liked in the prison. She’s actually referred to as “Nanna” and crochets and has the prison sell her paintings for charity, though they’re all unsigned by her choice. She’s sort of a queen bee/leader with a take no shit personality, but is described by others as a gentle soul (crazy, right?). She regularly stops other inmates from stealing or fighting, but has apparently never done so violently. Shit’s insane, man.
Maybe all she needed all along was to be institutionalized. She couldn't handle freedom
@@monkeygod7503that’s what it sounds like or maybe she just needed proper medication/therapy
This saddens me.
What the hell kind of person is she?
What I find insane and dismal is that men were willing to breed with that psychopath despite all the red flags Katherine was showing.
For he record, this is not a victim blaming comment, just pointing it out and confused how her last husband just sleeps with her despite getting a restraining order against her. Ffs she slit a pet's throat in front of one of her men as a warning, she'd beat them with a frying pan, and destroyed their clothes! Those are red flags. If the guy who got killed by Katherine hadn't allowed her back in some odd way, he'd still be alive.
I swear, if you don't word your thoughts rights on this site, people will misconstrue it. You could say, "I love pancakes" then some jerk will ask "oh so you hate waffles?" Like, what?! No! That's an entire different matter.
Female privilege
Yup gotta blame the men even when the woman is a cannibal psychopath, and the men are the VICTIMS. Grow up child.
Sadly it happens time and time again to men and women even if people can see the truth on the outside.
I guarantee she was an animal in the sack
considering the fact that men also f*ck animals and corpses, it's not hard to believe. they don't care who or what they're with 🤷♀️
Leaving the key underneath him feels almost like a taunt. Was this a Saw situation?
My guess is that they left the key because they needed it to appear as though he did it to himself,so if no key was left,it would prove another person was involved
Gareth was murdered by a government agency...English or Russian (or US) I'm not sure..but was murdered nevertheless, imo. Not sure how one can come to another conclusion.
I would venture a guess that the agency he worked for was involved. Garreth being a no call no show for even a day should've warranted a wellfare check. Yet they waited how long? Long enough for the heat to do its job.
Lazy's voice is so soothing. He be talking about grisly crime and I just doze off 💀❤️
One of the best true crime channel.
Imagine him calling you to order food 💀
Grizzly crime! Oh I love that. It just makes me think of a bear sneaking into someone's house and stealing their jewelry. XD
The word you meant is 'grisly', they sound the same but grisly is like gristle which you get in meat.
Not trying to be grammar police, I just love the visual you gave me. :D
@@kydiasan21 oh dear 💀
Even though I've heard these stories on other channels, I'll always listen to Lazy Masquerade! He gives so much more detail than others.
Thanks Lazy, great content as always.
Oh btw Katherine is apparently a model inmate. A Motherly type figure. Frightening.
That’s definitely creepy
Rumor has it that she trades sausages for cigarettes. 😉
The first case…. I grew up in cheltenham, many friends parents worked at GCHQ. Lots of eery stories and rumours always floating around about what goes on inside. It’s a very strange building, 90% of it is underground.
It’s obvious that Gareth's death was paid for‼️ I can’t believe that the authorities had ever thought that he had done it to himself🤦🏼♀️
They know, just covered it up!
@@sheffieldamanda It would appear so!
It was definitely a cover up. it was left for seven days on purpose so the high temperature did it’s job. no justice.
The "authorities" are the ones that killed him.
Honestly, more reasons why people should question the authorities more.
This is the most in-depth story I have seen on Gareth's case. I have been fascinated and disturbed by his case since the news broke about his death. I had never heard about some of the evidence you presented. It does not change my mind in fact it makes me more certain than ever that he DID NOT kill himself. As for padlocks you don't need a key to lock it and the fact that they found no fingerprints I mean come on the guy was living there so there should have been fingerprints everywhere so someone had a good clean ater stuffing him in the bag either by threeats or by drugging him with something that wouldn't take long to leave to residual traces in the body.
There is way too much evidence proving that it was probably inside job. They did check on him after 7 days which is extremly weird, no fingerprints, no signs of somebody tempering with door's locks to get inside which means Gareth probably invited somebody inside, equipment being moved inside of house despite gurads being there 24/7, escape artists not being able to recreate "trick" that Gareth did. It's just way too much to think it was just accident.
Hey Lazy, do you have plans to ever upload anymore scary stories that aren't based off of crime cases? Like the videos you used to upload like folklore, personal accounts, break ins, "let's not meet", and other types of videos in that style?
I love your videos and I'd really like to see more of that content again!
For this kind of content i hit up the channels Chilling Scares, Whispered Diaries, Toxicskullx, and Malevolent Mischief...all are great
Out of all the RUclipsrs that create this type of content, lazy is the best. And it’s not close
I find Lazy’s voice so relaxing to listen to before bed.
It's not a Sunday night without a lazy masquerade video 🔥
Imagine having your friend die right in front of you, accidentally killing multiple children in an accident, and then almost having your own child killed by your ex-girlfriend. Don't know how he made it through the day.
Having your friend die VERY VERY VIOLENTLY right in front of you, at that. Though, he himself didn't have any involvement in the bus accident himself aside from apparently rescuing some of the children.
I remember hearing about the Garreth Williams story on Blameitonjorge's channel years ago, but since it was a list video he didn't go into much detail. Glad to hear more of the story now.
Great to see a post from you Lazy! You’re my favourite content creator!
You have the absolute best intro title cards on youtube. They really evoke a strangely familiar mood and feeling I can't exactly describe or put my finger on, it's very mysterious and nostalgic.
2nd story. Her victim was not her first victim, but the first one she killed. She had a history of abusing exes.
the second you mentioned the US source reporting information about Gareth's death to The Sun of all places...yeah i'm taking that one with a VERY large grain of salt.
The thermostat on the first story was turned up to decompose him quicker to stop any evidence being obtained.
Would've thrown off infrared detection as well (fwiw).
The story about Katherine is mind blowing 🤯
How and why did men keep giving her chance after change? She’s hideous, both on the inside and the outside. I also can’t understand why she kept getting released from mental hospitals. Everyone failed John except the final judge that locked her up for good.
Always a great day when Masquerade uploads!
Thank you for filling my empty sleep filled head with endless stories :)
The woman in the second case, Katherine, must've been unbelievably charming and convincing when needed. Nothing else can explain why the men in her life always took her back.
Waiting for MrBallen and look who shows up! Great timing.
i love coming home from work and watching the new lazy video every sunday! 🥰
Greetings from Iceland, just your favorite Icelander strolling by. Great job as always
Why on earth did they keep letting Catherine out of mental facilities, like wth were they running on a honor system in which case she still shouldn't of been released as she clearly showed violent tendencies
Me watching Katherine get into so many relationships with her "crazy" ah and my relatively normal self can't even get a date: 😢
Man, you're not even close to alone in feeling that way. I know that feel all too well
Me neither not that I haven't tried to get a date . Right there with you man I get it
@@tekbarriersucks to be you lmao
The Katherine Knight case is always weird for me because my parents are named Kathy and John, and my mom has more than a few things in common with Ms Knight. Though at least she never tried to feed me my father... (she has admitted to planning to kill me as a young child, though not with a train. She was going to drown me in the bathtub. I think the main reason she didn't is that she's small and has had a severe back injury since she was young, and i was big and strong for my age, so she wasn't sure that she could overpower me)
I sure hope you cut ties with her OMG...
Wtf😨
Wooooow
What the? I hope you’ve cut her out of your life.
Heyy! I needed something creepy to listen while playing my cute games! ❤
Same here! It’s a rainy, lazy day, and videos like this are perfect for listening to while playing games on my phone. ☺️
I can only do two things at once after a lot of adderall
needed something to listen to while i do my cute crimes!!
What was it like being in Beetlejuice?
@@tonyg5132 Day-o....Daaaaaayyyyyy-o!
Seeing Lazy has posted a new video fills me with such joy!
Thank you for all you do! Your one of my favorite narrators ❤
The suitcase story, a theory:
Potentially yes indeed part of a sex thing, but with an extra person there who sealed him in the bag and was meant to let him out. Instead, they wiped down the scene including his phone, turned up the heat, and left him there to die.
And also reset his cipher?
@@Michael_Breiter maybe it was a co-worker that did it all, and was covering their ass
You always make my miserable all nighters so much more interesting, thank you Lazy
I am absolutely loving the consistent Sunday uploads right now Lazy. Thank you my friend 🙏🏻
✌🏻♥️
You’re meaning to tell me the MI6 were seriously trying to convince the public Gareth put himself in the duffel bag?? Good grief
I am actually speechless that this woman was released TWICE! She was obviously a disaster waiting to happen!!!!
I just love the little montage of Lazy in the ads, he’s so cute smiling 😆🥰
Not so fun fact: Police initially thought that John's skin was either a wet blanket or a recently used wet suit before realising what it was...
On Gareth, a small detail: they wouldn't have needed a secondary key for the padlock, padlocks can normally be locked without the key by just pushing it shut.
Happy lazy time, everyone! Hope ya are having a good afternoon/night/morning.
Drag, these are old ones that everyone's heard 100 times
I feel so bad for all the men Katherine has abused, they didn't deserve any of this and it's infuriating that she got away with so much. I'm convinced she wouldn't have been able to murder had she been trialed or stayed in care where she was placed earlier in her life.
I’ve been waiting all week Tysm for uploading! ❤
If its in the sun on Sunday, you don't need to take anything with a pinch of salt, you need to take it with a massive handful of the stuff
Love this channel, it’s like having C-3PO tell you stories.
It's nice to see these "older" cases that were really known a few years ago told again by you
This is my favorite channel for that kinda stuff
Always look forward to a video from Lazy and he never disappoints with his content
It is entirely impossible to zip a duffel bag all the way up, lock it, then somehow miraculously pull in your hand and keep the lock inside. He may have found something that would cause him to become a whistleblower. MI6 called ‘assets’
I truly truly miss you narrating scary stories... You were the one narrator that could put me to sleep like no other! I really miss those days.
That intro music puts me on the right mindset.. Great video, Thank You Lazy ❤
The fact that his cell phone was reset to factory settings is suspicious enough
November 2nd 1991:
My mother Emma was a newly arrived immigrants to the United States from Honduras. That night my baby brother was only six hours old. Since my mother didn't have insurance she had to go a few blocks down to the pharmacy and get her meds there. On her way walking down, a strange man in a taxi came up to her. My mother still had two and a half blocks to walk and the man insisted to my mom "hey you want a ride?" Seeming like an okay fellow my mom got in the car. As he drove past the pharmacy that my mom wanted to go to my mother asked him "Hey I need to go to this pharmacy. Can you please turn around?" The man looked at my mother and told her that he knew of a better pharmacy just a few more blocks down. My mother not thinking twice about it trusted him and let him continue driving. It was 130 in the morning. The man continued driving for another 5 minutes. It was here that my mother started to panic. This took place in Brooklyn. My mother wasn't sure where she was but she soon realized they were in a secluded, dark and quiet part of Brooklyn. She was pleading for her life "Please!!! Please let me out of the car!! I'm no good I just had a baby and I'm bleeding very heavily. My baby's only six hours old please let me get back to him please". The man looked in his rearview mirror. The entire time he was masturbating to my mom pleading for her life. He got out of the car, saw that my mother couldnt move, stood up for like a few seconds by the driver side, looked at my mother through the window with what my mother could only describe as the smile of absolute evil, and simply said....."Okay"....he then got in the car, drove my mom to the nearest pharmacy, then seemingly left. My mom tried to report him but he was gone and she couldn't remember any details because she didn't speak English very well at the time. The fucked up part was is that after she left the pharmacy he was waiting around the corner again for her and told her to get in the car. She screamed at him and told him get the fuck away from me or I'm going to call the cops right now. He sped off into the darkness and to this very day...my mother wonders whether that man, whoever he was, harmed other immigrant women like he almost did my mother. She wonders if he is still out there, still alive, still prowling the streets like a predator in the night....he was a Spanish male, 5'10 in height, normal build, but with features so dark she couldn't discern any particulars barring his predatory smile. He was fluent in both English and Spanish from what she remembers. She still has nightmares about that incident.
Edit: I felt.....this was the proper channel to share my mother's story. If anyone has any information regarding something similar PLEASEEEEE share with me. It would be highly appreciated 🙏
What neighborhood in Brooklyn? Sunset park by any chance?
The cops in the Katherine Knight story - they entered the premises and were making their way through carefully. They were looking for the occupant, the snoring person and where was all the blood from? They have guns drawn and push aside a curtain over the doorway to enter the next room...then one of the cops realises his arm is wet, he looks and it is blood? He looks back at where he has been and that is when he realised that the curtain he had pushed aside to clear the next room, was actually a human skin. Just hanging over the doorway.
Those cops absolutely needed some therapy and likely do to this day.
Great stuff as always Lazy. I do kind of miss some of your old stuff. The old supernatural content you used to make back in the day. Be fun to revisit that style I think.
25:14 Thank you so much for editing that word out. My generation Z ears can't take hearing stuff like that. Well, time to go get my s-- change operation.
Last photo of ‘Katherine behind bars’… She has her hand around the shoulder of a former Vatican and Australian Cardinal George Pell. The filthy grub has done worse than Katherine believe it or not. Another great video Lazy
Love these kind of videos! But Where do you find all these cases ?!
These cases are crimes that happen with great frequency. Ones just as horrible and gruesome.
Good to see you back. Missed you on my work breaks. Looking forward to seeing you more often on here. Your one of my favorites. 😊😊😊
I'm not one to victim blame but was Katherine so good that John just threw all his fears out of the window for one last screw
Katherine must have been a master manipulator, because I cannot grasp how multiple men stayed with her for extended periods of time despite all these signs. I understand that her victim went home in fear of his kids lives, an action which I of course have all respect for. However, it is insane to me how this man did not leave her earlier with his kids. Only reasonable explanation I have is that she must've been one hell of a manipulator or had previously threatened to harm his kids if he offended her.
Next time I'm staying somewhere with a piano, I'm gonna play the intro jingle and see if anyone notices
Thank you so very much LM. 👍🏻
That first case really sounded like a hit. And that's about all we'll get from that.
Another lazy video! These videos always make me smile, despite the type of eerie content, love your work lazy! I really like them. Keep up the work!
DID ANYONE NOTICE THAT THE PICTURE AT THE END IS NOT KATHRINE NIGHT,It is that old woman who killed her neighbor and loves human lungs for snacking,I can't remember her name but I think mr ballen did the story.(sorry lazy) lol
After story one, I’d like to say that my apartment never has the heat on because I like it cold and I would never ever willingly tie myself up! Dear lord that was beyond shady.
Katherine Knight truly gives meaning to the term dark knight
The Gareth Williams case has always fascinated me. First of all, what a terrible way to die, but mostly. . .it's just a perfect locked-door mystery.
screams of Intelligence murdering their own to be honest
I really like that you’re posting more unsolved murders and disappearances!
Stamps may actually be relevant to me soon, wish me luck starting my LLC.🙏🏻
A compilation of scary stories from your subscribers please!