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 Read more
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For almost a year between 2005 and 2006, Moffat Park was terrorised by a serial killer. The man who moved unseen among the community became a phantom to feared as victim after victim fell at his hands, but when his masked was pulled off, the very mundane truth of his identity would perhaps be even
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In 1991, four provinces across South Africa experienced disturbingly similar murders across a short space of time. Soon, police recognized that they were on the hunt for, not just one serial killer, but a pair of them. Though the thought of one serial predator on the prowl is frightening enough, when the rarest phenomenon happens
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When Brydon Brandt was arrested in 1997 in connection with the death of his friend and roommate, police had no idea they had arrested a serial killer. Within hours of the suspect being apprehended, he confessed to a string of unsolved murders — and it became clear he had specifically targeted sex workers. While this
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In 2008, the body of 28-year-old Norman Watermeyer was discovered after he had been missing for several days. When one dogged detective was assigned to the case, he realized he had seen this MO before, and he knew the perpetrator well. Andries Tommy Williams (born 1970), known as The City Serial Killer, is a South
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