Between 1997 and 2001 an alarming number of child rapes were reported in police jurisdictions within Gauteng. As the dockets began piling up, a trend was identified. All the crimes bore a similar modus operandi and victim profile, and the description of the suspect was eerily precise. In May 2001, when a 15-person task team Read more
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In January 1999, a 22-year-old woman from Mpumalanga was abducted by a serial killer. For a week, the woman had no choice but to follow the man along rural roads as he raped, killed and robbed his way through the province. As hour after hour of horror ticked by, the woman bided her time, waiting
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In March 2011, a series of horrific murders terrified the people of Kwazulu-Natal. Within just a few days, four people had been attacked on the streets and butchered with an axe. The attacks were so violent that many of the victims sustained completing severing of body parts. Although a South African Police Service task team
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When 18-year-old Lekita Moore was found murdered in Valhalla Park, the route to her killer was pretty direct. It would be all of the revelations that spilled over after the arrest of Cameron Wilson, though, that would soon underpin the true horror of what had happened on the Cape Flats over preceding two years Western
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Marilyn Jones and Shannon Wippenaar were very different women. Their backgrounds, locations and lifestyles should have meant their paths would never cross — but 14 years, 500km and one man would change that. Robin Cloete murdered his fiancé, Jones, in 1993 in Cape Town. In an almost typical intimate partner murder, Jones had decided she
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