In Krugersdorp, South Africa 11 people were viciously murdered between 2012 and 2016 by a religious group calling themselves Electus Per Deus (Chosen by God). Their arrests sparked an investigation into one of the strangest cases in South African history which would ultimately reveal the depths of human depravity. The story of the Krugersdorp Killers Read more
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Marie Ostbo, a Norwegian student, was 21 years old when she disappeared while on holiday in South Africa. Marie has now been missing for more than a year and the circumstances surrounding her disappearance seem to get murkier every day. This is Marie’s story. Marie is extremely well-travelled having spent time in London, Morocco, Andorra,
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Welcome to our first episode, the story of Charmaine Maré. I chose Charmaine’s story to cover first because I hadn’t heard about the case before I saw it on a short documentary on television. I was surprised as I tend to follow cases like these quite voraciously but then I realised that Charmaine’s murder took
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Fascination with true crime is nothing new. In 1924, the first true crime magazine, True Detective hit the racks, remaining a firm favourite among the darkly curious until its final issue in 1995. In its first few decades of publication its readers hid it under mattresses, only daring to sneak a peek when their husbands
