On the evening of October 21 1987, police received a panicked call from a Bedfordview, Gauteng resident. His neighbour, Maria Krebs, had arrived at his home naked and hysterical. Her husband was dead, she said, and she had fired the gun that killed him. As the police investigation into the death of German national, husband Read more
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Between 1999 and 2016, the legend of a Houdini-like prisoner haunted SA. Ananias Mathe, a Mozambican national, arrived in South Africa in 1999. Almost immediately he began his criminal reign of terror — raping, robbing and attempting to murder in four provinces. It would be Mathe’s actions in escaping incarceration, however, in addition to his
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In 2002, the bodies of five unidentified women were discovered in a quarry in the Pretoria area. Their murders would remain unsolved for four years until, in 2006, the killer returned. As the toll reached 16 victims, the SAPS’ investigative psychology unit (IPU) was asked to help find and arrest the perpetrator. At the
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When a couple delivered their first child on the 3rd of May 1994, they could have no idea that within hours a nightmare would begin that would last 22 months. A woman had stolen their baby and then seemingly disappeared into thin air. On May 4 in 1994, Sonja Combrinck walked into the Marymount maternity
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When Dutch student, Marleen Konings, met a fellow solo traveler in Mossel Bay in December 2003, she could have no idea that the man before her was living a lie and within days, their worlds would collide with deadly consequences. SHOWNOTES: Host: Nicole Engelbrecht Producer: Nicole Engelbrecht Music: Snippet from Prime Circle’s Evidence We would
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