When the body of Child Protection & Sexual Offences investigator Captain Anna-Marie Potgieter is discovered her colleagues arrest a man, believed to be her killer, within 48 hours. Potgieter, a member of the Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit, had earned the respect of her colleagues by “giving her life to the police”,
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When the badly beaten and burned body of 23-year-old David Olyne was discovered at an abandoned pump station just outside Bella Vista in Ceres in the Western Cape, it immediately became clear his murder had been a rage-filled attack. Olyne was buried at his home in Williston, Northern Cape. He had worked at the Family
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Dr Hestelle van Staden is a senior forensic pathologist and star of the VIA show, Outopsie. In this week’s episode I chat with Dr Van Staden about her work as a pathologist, the show, and her future projects. Content hosted by iono.fm SHOWNOTES: Host: Nicole Engelbrecht Producer: Nicole Engelbrecht Music: Snippet with permission from
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As residents of Merriespruit in the Free State province settled in for bed on the 22nd of February 1994, a wall of mud and water was heading their way and when a man-made disaster collided with the quiet suburb of Virginia, only devastation was left in its wake. When gold-bearing rock is processed and the
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When Brydon Brandt was arrested in 1997 in connection with the death of his friend and roommate, police had no idea they had arrested a serial killer. Within hours of the suspect being apprehended, he confessed to a string of unsolved murders — and it became clear he had specifically targeted sex workers. While this
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