The Lotter Family Murders – Episode 60
On the 19th of July 2008, a young man stumbled into Westville, Durban police station. Mathias AKA Mathew Naidoo informed the police officers on duty that their presence was required at his girlfriend’s home in Thames street – her parents were dead.
Riekie and Johnnie Lotter had been receiving death threats for several months and it seemed that these ominous predictions had finally come to fruition.
When members of the Durban Organised Crime Unit started to look at the evidence, though, and compared that to the story being offered by the Lotters’ children, Hardus ) and Nicolette, it became clear that there was far more to this story than met the eye.
Within hours of the two brutal murders, investigators would start to uncover a bizarre tale of coercive control, cult-like behaviour, and the lies that led to the ultimate betrayal.
