In 1992, sex workers began disappearing from the streets of Parow. By 1996 when a task team was assembled to investigate, 19 women had been murdered. Even after a likely suspect was identified, though, the case was far from solved.
The bodies of the murdered women were dumped across the Cape Peninsula and Boland, next to highways near places such as Worcester, Durbanville, Atlantis, Gordons Bay, Somerset West, Camps Bay and Brackenfell.
Micki Pistorius, author of Catch Me a Killer, who profiled the prostitute murderer, said the man had staged the murder scenes to make it look as if the women had been raped – even though none had been.
According to IOL, the following women were thought to have been his victims:
The women thought to have been victims
* October 28, 1992: Christene Fieltyn, 22, Atlantis.
* March 12, 1993: Elizabeth Martincich, 29, Worcester.
* March 13, 1993: Sarah Meintjies, 29, Philadelphia.
* March 31, 1993: Francina Manuel, 30, Durbanville.
* July 8, 1993: Unknown victim, Kraaifontein.
* September 8, 1993: Nolundi Mbukwana, 23, Gordons Bay.
* March 1, 1994: Elmarie Engelbrecht, 22, Worcester.
* June 12, 1994: Susan Opperman, 34, Gordons Bay.
* July 8, 1994: Margaret Phillips, 23, Somerset West.
* August 10, 1994: Bridgette Lindt, 28, Milnerton.
* September 9, 1995: Shireen Jooste, 38, Philadelphia.
* September 15, 1995: Marilyn Persent, 30, Milnerton.
* September 20, 1995: Patricia Gibson, 35, Camps Bay.
* October 13, 1995: Shahieda Abrahams, 31, Durbanville.
* January 3, 1996: Gloria Samuels, 39, Durbanville.
* March 24, 1996: Francis Seliston, age unknown, Brackenfell.
* April 7, 1996: Katrina Fredericks, age unknown, Brackenfell.
* April 14, 1996: Elizabeth Thompson, age unknown, Brackenfell.
* May 15, 1996: Theresa van der Vint, 16, Macassar.
SHOWNOTES:
Host: Nicole Engelbrecht
Producer: Nicole Engelbrecht
Music: Snippet (with permission) from Prime Circle’s Evidence
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