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Spotlight Minisode His Name Is Jerobiojin: The Ethics of True Crime
A 13-year-old boy is murdered in a small Western Cape town and South Africa loses its mind, but not for the reasons we'd expect. In this minisode we …
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 73 - The Capital Hill Murders
In 1998 a prisoner was released from jail after serving just 3 years for a violent rape. By 1999, at least 7 people had lost their lives in Capital H…
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 72 - The Murder of Santa Pretorius
In 2001, the South African public was horrified by the news that two teenagers, dubbed Adam and Eve, had been arrested for the vicious murder of a wo…
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 71 - The Murder of Ralf Krebs
On the night of the 21st of October 1987, police received a panicked call from the neighbour of the Krebs family. A gun shot had gone off and a man w…
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 70 Serial Offender: Ananias Mathe
Between 1999 and 2016 the strange legend of a Houdini-like prisoner haunted South Africa. Was Ananias Mathe really the highly-skilled escape artist h…
4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 69 - The Serial Crimes of Richard Nyauza
In 2002 the bodies of five women were found in a quarry. Four years later when more started to be found, South Africa's IPU realized that their kille…
4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 68 - Finding Baby Micaela
When a couple delivered their first child on the 3rd of May 1994, they could have no idea that within hours a nightmare would begin that would last 2…
4 years, 5 months ago
Spotlight Minisode 2021 Wrap & Bloopers
As we bid farewell to 2021, I've put together a wrap of the year in true crime in SA as well as a blooper reel of my recording mishaps for the year (…
4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 67 - The Murder of Leslie Brockbanks Van Zyl
Leslie van Zyl booked into the Protea Hotel in George on the 28th of August 2000. She did not leave alive. In the years that followed her family woul…
4 years, 6 months ago
Episode 66 - The Limpopo Serial Killer
In 1991, Mukosi Freddy Mulaudzi was handed down two life sentences for murder. This should have been the end of Mulaudzi's murderous rampage, but it …
4 years, 6 months ago