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Killer-Cop, Unmasking Serial Killer Kobus Geldenhuys Invisible Identity
South African serial killer and rapist Kobus Geldenhuys’ criminal career began by stealing money from his mother’s purse when he was a 10-year-old child. …
Killer-Cops, When Heroes Become Villains: Uyselen Nel killed his family in cold-blood
In 1996 South African police sergeant Uyselen Nel killed his wife and two toddler sons in cold-blood, much like the Greek hero committed familicide…
Serial Killer Brydone Brandt, is he Hercules or Cerberus?
Some time after Stewart Wilken, the cannibal serial killer of South Africa was imprisoned, I received a call from St Albans Correctional Facility summoning…
The Science of Decay at Body Farms – Forensic Taphonomy in the Flesh
In the early 19th century, two serial killers, William Burke and William Hare, set up an illustrious business by killing 16 people in Edinburgh,…
True Crime: The Gorgoneion of Medusa
According to Greek mythology, Medusa, a Gorgon, was a beautiful maiden who was raped by the Greek god Poseidon, in a temple of the…
High Treason: The Boeremag – Ordinary Men
In October 2002, Soweto, a township designated predominantly for Black people during the Apartheid era, located south-west of Johannesburg, South Africa, was rocked as…
Unmasking Aficionados Posing as Experts on Serial Killers
The sensational reporting of Jack the Ripper terrorising Whitechapel London in the late 19th century, can serve as an archetypical portrayal of the dichotomous…
Condoned Cruelty: Prolonged capital punishments over the ages
Capital punishment was abolished on 6 June 1995 in South Africa. Norman Simons, the Station Strangler was sentenced on 14 June 1995 to 25…