The Unsolved Murder of Jacoba "Bubbles" Schroeder -Episode 8 -

In 1949, 18-year-old Jacoba “Bubbles” Schroeder had been drawn to the bright lights of Johannesburg in the hopes that she could pull herself out of poverty and cast aside the shackles of her social class.

Sadly, Jacoba was looking for a knight in shining armour in the wrong place and she instead found herself in a situation beyond her control.

The discovery of her body in Birdhaven Plantation sparked an investigation and trial which would inhabit the imaginations of the world for a year and its unbelievable outcome would haunt South Africa for decades to come.

I know why Jacoba’s story spoke to me so deeply that I felt I needed to share it with you. Yes it’s 70 years old and me talking about it is not going to bring any resolution to the case but there’s another thing that I want to achieve with this project and that is to give victims a voice. Especially those victims who wouldn’t ordinarily have one and Jacoba definitely falls into that category. In researching this case, I used quite a few online sources as well as a book called Famous South African Crimes by Rob Marsh. I’d like to thank listener Dew Solomon for sending me a copy of the book. I also read another book called Bubbles by Rahla Xenopoulos. The book is more of a fictional account of the murder because there are so few confirmed facts, but it is a riveting read and I will talk more about this book and its author later in the episode.

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