Kim Snibson lived in Nowra, a small town on the South Coast of New South Wales, looking after horses on a rural property. So what did she do to earn the title ‘the face of evil’?
In 2006, Snibson was working on the land of married couple Kathryn McKay and Greg Hosa. They were champion horse breeders, with a 28 hectare property only a kilometre away from a house Snibson had recently inherited.
On January 28, Snibson asked the couple to come to her house to discuss the horses. Kathryn and Greg headed off separately, waving goodbye to their 10-year-old son for what would be the last time.
Waiting for them in Snibson’s house were two other men, Stacey Lea-Caton and Andrew Flentjar. Snibson had convinced them that Kathryn and Greg were violent criminals who had assaulted her – none of which was true.
The couple were bound and gagged, ultimately dying by suffocation and strangulation.
Snibson and the two men then put the couples’ bodies in huge drums, dumping them in a national park before returning to set the drums ablaze.
A day later, Lea-Caton walked into a police station and confessed everything.
While the exact motive for the crime is unknown, the court heard during her trial that Snibson had fantasised about getting someone to sign a property over to her during an assault.
Find out Snibson’s fate on this episode of Small Town Murder.
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