On the 25th of October 2017, a paramedic spotted a man running toward him in the parking lot of Brits Provincial Hospital. In his arms was the limp body of a young girl. Her name was Poppie van der Merwe and how she came to be deceased in her stepfather’s arms was a story beyond Read more
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On the 24th of September 1996 in Nieuwoudtville, South Africa a gang of five career criminals broke into a home on the farm, Heldersig. This story is about random, gratuitous, inexplicable violence. By the time they had left three people including a 4-year-old child were dead and a fourth man, barely clung to life. The
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The Predator that Inspired Midnight in the Switchgrass When South African movie goers piled in to watch the riveting new thriller, Midnight in the Switchgrass, this weekend, they would likely have little initial knowledge of the true-life events that had inspired the movie. Released in South Africa on the 29th of October, the movie stars
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I am very excited to announce my new podcast in partnership with Showmax and the Showmax Original documentary, Devilsdorp. The Devilsdorp Official Companion Podcast is available on all podcast platforms. Content hosted by iono.fm Episode 1 – Halos in Hell One of the most prominent aspects of this case has always been the religious narrative
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On July 29 2015, hotel staff at an upmarket hotel in Camps Bay, Cape Town, discovered the brutally beaten and defiled body of one of their guests. Gabriela Kabrins Alban, who was 39 years old, was an American tourist who had booked into the hotel with her Guatemalan boyfriend, Diego Dougherty-Novella. As the global spotlight
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