Catherine Kieu

Catherine Kieu (born March 10, 1963), He stated at trial that as a result of the assault and permanent injury to his genitalia, he felt as if he had been murdered. Huffington Post also reported that Kieu's husband was 60 years of age in 2013. A voice activated recorder captured the event on July 11, 2011 and the audio recording was replayed in the courtroom; Kieu yelled, "You deserve it!" three times before assaulting her husband. She was sentenced on June 28, 2013, and received life in prison with the possibility of parole after seven years. As of March 2026, she is 63 years old and has already been denied parole twice, most recently in September 2025, and is imprisoned at the Central California Women's Facility. Her initial suitability hearing took place in September 2022. At this hearing, she was denied parole for the first time, with a three-year denial period. Her second hearing occurred on September 3, 2025. At this subsequent suitability hearing, the Board found her unsuitable for release again and issued a further 3-year denial. Due to the 3-year denial, her next scheduled opportunity for a parole hearing will be in late 2028. However, there are several factors which include Catherine's advanced age, the Parole Board's lengthened parole denial of 3 more years which often means that the Board believes such an inmate has moved further away from (not closer) to rehabilitation, and the overall serious nature of her convictions, which all suggests that she faces a high probability of spending the rest of her life in prison.

Discussion on The Talk Sharon Osbourne and other co-hosts joked about the incident and made light of Kieu's crimes on the daytime television show The Talk. Regarding the incident, Osbourne said "I don't know the circumstances... However, I do think it's quite fabulous." Co-host Sara Gilbert said "it is a little bit sexist. If somebody cut a woman's breast off, nobody would be sitting laughing."