In September 2002, on a clear spring night, Sibille Zanner parked outside the home of her friends in Roodepoort, South Africa.
Sibille Zanner, 39, a German expatriate who had lived in South Africa with her husband for 14 years, had attended an evening pottery class at a Roodepoort home on Wednesday with a friend and was apparently leaving for home when she was shot. They had a night of crafts, wine, and comfortable chatter arranged but Sibille would not make it inside.
Half an hour later, she would be discovered in the road. She had been shot with a crossbow, instantly paralysed and barely clinging to life.
When her life support was switched off 14 hours later, a murder investigation ensued.
One year after her murder an arrest would be made but that would just be the beginning of a mystery that endures to this day.
She worked as a secretary for a company in Bryanston and lived in Waterford Estate, Fourways. Zanner leaves behind her unidentified businessman husband, 40, and twin sons, aged two.
In Episode 36 of True Crime South Africa, we delve into the unsolved murder of mother and wife, Sibille Zanner.
SHOWNOTES:
Host: Nicole Engelbrecht
Producer: Nicole Engelbrecht
Music: Snippet from Prime Circle’s Evidence
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