Between 2015 and 2018, retirement homes in Gauteng and Mpumalanga became the scenes of horrific murders. Some of the most vulnerable members of society were being targeted and the clock was running down for police to make an arrest before another woman was killed. Content hosted by iono.fm SHOWNOTES: Host: Nicole Engelbrecht Producer: Nicole Engelbrecht
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Lakes and dams are intended to be places of recreation and enjoyment, but it is not uncommon for them to be used by murderers hoping to submerge their victims and crimes forever. In this episode I cover several different cases in which bodies of water were used in an attempt to cover up crimes and
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In 2015, visitors to Rhodes Park in Kensington, Johannesburg, approached the multi-acre greenbelt with caution — but during the day it was often filled with picnicking families and groups of youngsters enjoying the fresh air who didn’t always leave as soon as dusk fell. On October 17 that year, though, that would all change. Two
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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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Eighteen-year-old Johan Nel was well known in Skierlik, an informal settlement near Swartruggens in the North West. The young man would visit the community regularly to sell chickens he reared on his parents’ Swartruggens smallholding. So on January 14 2008, when Nel pulled his father’s bakkie up to the local spaza shop, got out and
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