When successful investment guru Herman Pretorius walked into the Icon office building in Cape Town in July 2012, he had only one thing on his mind: escape. His death and the murder of his partner would seemingly provide the way out he had so desperately sought, but for thousands of other South Africans, it was Read more
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When 20-year-old Siam Lee went missing from her place of work in Kwazulu-Natal in 2018, her disappearance made headlines for all the wrong reasons. As the story developed, she and her mother would be cast as one-dimensional characters in the story being told about them. When Siam’s remains were found, though, attention would shift to
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One couple. One farm. Two murders in the space of a month. When Arnold Schultz is found murdered on his farm in Philippi just one month after his life partner, Hester Koch suffered the same fate, it seems impossible that there is not some link between the two crimes. Content hosted by iono.fm SHOWNOTES:
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When Stellenbosch university student, Erin van Rensburg, went missing from her flat on the 1st of June 2009, red flags immediately sprang up around one particular man who’d shown an obsessive interest in the young woman. Content hosted by iono.fm SHOWNOTES: Host: Nicole Engelbrecht Producer: Nicole Engelbrecht Music: Snippet (with permission) from Prime Circle’s
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In 1996, Robert Knuckle and journalist Ed Arnold published the true crime book, The Flying Bandit. The book tells the story of Gilbert Galvan Jr, a career criminal, who escaped from a US prison and fled to Canada only to embark on one of the most prolific bank robbery sprees in the country’s history. Now,
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