In March 2005, Carol Thompson received the news that no mother should ever have to hear. The body of her 24-year-old daughter Tracey, who had been missing for a week, had been found on a piece of agricultural land just outside Benoni. While that call ended all hope for her safe return and the life Read more
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In 1996, Moses Sithole was sentenced to 2410 years in prison for a prolific series of murders. The mind of a man who could commit such atrocities has been a fascination to professionals and the public alike. Many journalists attempted to interview him and Moses was not short of prospective pen pals – well-meaning individuals
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Moses Sithole has the highest body count of any convicted serial killer in South Africa. For two years in the 1990s, he terrorised the women of Atteridgeville, Boksburg and Cleveland earning him the moniker of the ABC Killer. The man known as the ABC Killer was also known by a few other names including The
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Welcome to True Crime South Africa. This is our fortnightly minisode, TCSA: Spotlight where we discuss updates to cases we’ve covered and cases that are in the media at the moment. Before we get into this week’s discussion I’d like to clarify something about Episode 8: The Unsolved Murder of Bubbles Schroeder. We also discuss
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In 1949, 18-year-old Jacoba “Bubbles” Schroeder had been drawn to the bright lights of Johannesburg in the hopes that she could pull herself out of poverty and cast aside the shackles of her social class. Sadly, Jacoba was looking for a knight in shining armour in the wrong place and she instead found herself
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