
Katherine tells Adam that Wayne killed her biological daughter and he agrees to keep her secret and protect them from her ex-husband. There, Katherine meets a successful doctor named Adam Mayfair and a relationship blossoms. Katherine and the new-Dylan relocate to Chicago.


Katherine adopts the girl and changes her name to Dylan in an attempt to cover up the accidental death of her daughter. She visits a Romanian orphanage and finds a young girl who bears a striking resemblance to her now-deceased daughter. Katherine leaves Wisteria Lane the next morning, in 1995. Younger Katherine during packing things to move out (" Smiles of a Summer Night") In shock, Katherine and Aunt Lillian realize that Wayne could have them arrested for murder, so they bury Dylan's body in the woods behind the house. Upon reaching the room, it is revealed that Dylan, while trying to retrieve the doll, was crushed and killed by the off-balanced bookshelf. Later, Katherine awoke to Lillian's screams from Dylan's room. As Wayne begins to become aggressive, Katherine violently strikes him across the head with a candlestick and he retreats. Wayne returns and Katherine confronts him. Furious, Katherine places the doll on top of a wooden bookshelf in her sleeping daughter's bedroom. One night, while Katherine and her aunt, Lillian Simms were out and Dylan was being babysat by Mary Alice, she discovered that Wayne had visited his daughter and given her a doll as a gift. Katherine befriends Susan Mayer and Mary Alice Young, her new neighbors on the street. The two divorced and Katherine relocated to Wisteria Lane, where she stayed with her aunt, Lillian Simms. During their marriage, Wayne became increasingly abusive towards Katherine and beat her on several occasions.

Katherine married Wayne Davis, a cop, and with him had a daughter, Dylan. According to her driver's license, Katherine was born on September 8, 1963.
