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True Crime South Africa

True Crime South Africa covers solved and unsolved South African true crime cases.

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Episode 14 - The Springs House of Horrors

Episode 14 - The Springs House of Horrors

On the 20th of May 2014, 17 police officers and three social workers pulled up outside a double-storey house in a busy r... Read more

5 Dec 2019

1hr 4mins

Ranked #2

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Episode 21 - The Crimes of Advocate Barbie

Episode 21 - The Crimes of Advocate Barbie

In 2001, South Africa was introduced to Cezanne Visser's blonde bombshell, persona, Advocate Barbie. Her overt sexuality... Read more

23 Feb 2020

1hr 57mins

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Ranked #3

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Episode 22 - The Murder of Frances Rasuge

Episode 22 - The Murder of Frances Rasuge

On the 27th of August 2004, 27-year-old Frances Rasuge headed out to the hair salon to prepare for a weekend with her bo... Read more

5 Mar 2020

53mins

Ranked #4

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Episode 9 - The ABC Killer

Episode 9 - The ABC Killer

Moses Sithole has the highest body count of any convicted serial killer in South Africa. For two years in the 1990s, he ... Read more

27 Sep 2019

1hr 42mins

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Ranked #5

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Episode 18 - The Modimolle Monster

Episode 18 - The Modimolle Monster

When Ina Bonnette met Johan Kotze she thought she had found the man of her dreams. Those dreams would soon turn into a n... Read more

7 Jan 2020

1hr 19mins

Ranked #6

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Podcast: Episode 7: The Body in the Boot

Podcast: Episode 7: The Body in the Boot

On the 22nd of September 2013 the badly decomposed body of a man was found in the boot of a car at Monte Casino in Fourw... Read more

29 Aug 2019

1hr

Ranked #7

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Podcast: Episode 6: The Griekwastad Murders

Podcast: Episode 6: The Griekwastad Murders

On Friday, the 6th of April 2012 three members of the Steenkamp family were brutally murdered. The perpetrator would be ... Read more

12 Aug 2019

1hr 45mins

Ranked #8

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Episode 4 – The Krugersdorp Killers

Episode 4 – The Krugersdorp Killers

In Krugersdorp, South Africa 11 people were viciously murdered between 2012 and 2016 by a religious group calling themse... Read more

10 Jul 2019

1hr 34mins

Ranked #9

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Episode 12: Unsolved: The River Strangler

Episode 12: Unsolved: The River Strangler

In 1995 a serial killer prowled the streets of Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal. He would take the lives of two teenage girls and... Read more

8 Nov 2019

38mins

Ranked #10

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Episode 16 - The Murder of Leigh Matthews

Episode 16 - The Murder of Leigh Matthews

On the 9th of July 2004, 21-year-old Leigh Matthews was abducted from outside her university. Her kidnapper soon made co... Read more

20 Dec 2019

33mins

Ranked #11

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Podcast: Episode 3 – The Station Strangler

Podcast: Episode 3 – The Station Strangler

South Africa has been haunted by the Station Strangler serial killer case since his first murder in 1986. A suspect was ... Read more

22 Jun 2019

51mins

Ranked #12

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Episode 10 - The Unsolved Murder of Tracey Thompson

Episode 10 - The Unsolved Murder of Tracey Thompson

In March 2005, Carol Thompson received the news that no mother should ever have to hear. The body of her 24-year-old dau... Read more

11 Oct 2019

1hr 41mins

Ranked #13

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Episode 17 - Daisy de Melker

Episode 17 - Daisy de Melker

In 1932 Daisy de Melker was executed after being found guilty of murdering her son. This crime just scratched the surfac... Read more

26 Dec 2019

37mins

Ranked #14

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Episode 11 - The Shoelace Killer

Episode 11 - The Shoelace Killer

In 2003, Wesley Julyan was 18-years-old when he was convicted of the murder of Kenneth van Aardt. He and his accomplice ... Read more

25 Oct 2019

47mins

Ranked #15

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Episode 13 - The Samurai Killer

Episode 13 - The Samurai Killer

On Monday, the 18th of August 2008, 18-year-old Morné Harmse arrived at his school in Krugersdorp. Armed with three swor... Read more

21 Nov 2019

1hr 12mins

Ranked #16

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Episode 8: The Unsolved Murder of Jacoba Schroeder

Episode 8: The Unsolved Murder of Jacoba Schroeder

In 1949, 18-year-old Jacoba Schroeder had been drawn to the bright lights of Johannesburg in the hopes that she could pu... Read more

12 Sep 2019

1hr 10mins

Ranked #17

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Episode 24 - The Murder of Connor Isaacs

Episode 24 - The Murder of Connor Isaacs

On the 27th of March 2019, 14-year-old Connor Isaacs was home alone. It was school holidays and his dad was at work. Con... Read more

2 Apr 2020

1hr 8mins

Ranked #18

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Interview: My Pen Pal, The Serial Killer

Interview: My Pen Pal, The Serial Killer

In 1996, Moses Sithole was sentenced to 2410 years in prison for a prolific series of murders. The mind of a man who cou... Read more

3 Oct 2019

37mins

Ranked #19

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Episode 26 - The Murder of Michael Van Eck

Episode 26 - The Murder of Michael Van Eck

On the 3rd of April 2011, a gruesome discovery in a cemetery in Welkom shocked the country. Part of a dismembered body w... Read more

16 Apr 2020

1hr 31mins

Ranked #20

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Episode 25 - The Scissors Murder

Episode 25 - The Scissors Murder

In November 1974, 46-year-old housewife and mother, Susanna Van Der Linde was brutally beaten and stabbed to death with ... Read more

12 Apr 2020

40mins

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