Zephany was born on 28 April 1997, in Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town. She’d been born via C-section, and so her mom was still recuperating in the ward a few days later. And it was while mom Celeste lay there, in and out of an exhausted, post-operative sleep with her little girl resting by her side that the unthinkable happened. On April 30th, someone entered that room, dressed in the maroon trousers and oatmeal shirt of the Groote Schuur staff uniform, and took Zephany from her crib before disappearing, seemingly forever.

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SOURCES

Miche’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Zephany-mothers-daughter-astonishing-story-ebook/dp/B07WFJDY3H

2010 interview with the Nurses: https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/search-for-daughter-never-ending-474075#.VP146CzsBsk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zephany_Nurse

https://soundcloud.com/nbpublishers/a-conversation-with-zephany-nurse-or-miche-solomon

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https://www.news24.com/news24/books/extract-zephany-you-think-you-know-a-person-especially-your-own-mother-right-20190816  

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Interview with Lavona and Michael  in 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qccQwfbjyoI

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The President Hotel in Bantry Bay is a long way from the sweet and simple townhouses we’ve been lurking in recently. It has some 350 rooms and apartments, with tall palm trees positioned around a pool and the exterior painted in startling white just to lean into that Med look. On the 7th of June 2009, security guard Mark Benjamin is standing outside room 54 key in hand, with two others chomping at the bit to get inside. These men are Lester Penteni and Marshall Gobinca. The men had gone to the President Hotel in search of Judge Patrick Maqubela, who was leasing one of the luxury apartments and had been unreachable for a few days…. Twelve years later, the cause of Patrick’s untimely demise remains a matter of debate. One acquittal, one conviction and one appeal later, Patrick’s cause of death remains unexplained.

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Judge killed over divorce plan

Judge's killer may lose R7.2m estate

Maqubela ‘apologised to wife on day he died’

Maqubela murder trial nears the end | eNCA

Maqubela pathologist cites uncertainties | News24

Maqubela patologist can’t make ruling

Maqubela shocked at husband's SMS messages to lover

Maqubela SMSes read out in court | News24

Maqubela text messages revealed

Maqubela trial resumes after 8 months

Maqubela wants to be home for Christmas | Drum

Maqubela's death unnatural - State | News24

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Murdered judge’s widow: I loved him

Mysterious call on day acting judge died

No surprise that judge was killed: state

One minute murder plan improbable - defence | News24

Prayers to the wind: Patrick Maqubela: Acting judge and former MK operative

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Saying goodbye to designer wear

SHE TOLD US OF JUDGE'S 'INFIDELITY'

Slain judge ‘was sex addict’

Thandi Maqubela 'was a cold step-mother' | OFM

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Thandi Maqubela back in court | Drum

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Thandi Maqubela wants her share of estate

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Thandi Sheryl Maqubela - Innocents Database of Exonerations

Toxicology tests conducted on judge's body

Witness received SMS from dead judge

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Today we’re traveling to Gqeberha on the south east coast of South Africa, the perfect spot for a young couple like the Panayiotous. Jayde Panayiotou worked as a teacher and her husband Christopher was an entrepreneur. On April 21 2015, Cherise Swanepoel pulled up to the Stellen Glen townhouse complex as always to carpool with Jayde to work, but there was no sign of her, no answer on her phone either. Jayde was the victim of an abduction and by 10am the whole country would be sharing her image online using #findjayde – but it was already too late.

www.patreon.com/ithappenedhere

SOURCES

Panayiotou tape exposed: ‘I told you to let them do it outside the house’ - YouTube

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FindJayde&src=hash

Jayde Panayiotou: How the story unfolded

#FindJayde - Twitter Search / Twitter

Jayde Panayiotou's killer given another life term for killing elderly woman in 2015 | News24

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Wife killer Panayiotou loses appeal bid | Graaff-Reinet Advertiser

Body of missing teacher Jayde Panayiotou found

Surprise witness called in Panayiotou murder trial

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It looks like a hit now: Panayiotou to so-called middleman | eNCA

Expert stands firm in Jayde case

Christopher Panayiotou was not very emotional: witness

Missing PE teacher: Reward offered | George Herald

I am using my anger to try to get justice for Jayde‚ says sister

Jayde's final moments | OFM

Uitenhage, garden town in Eastern Cape, South Africa

Jayde’s friend recalls the day she vanished | News24

Woman describes hearing the gunshots that killed Jayde

Jayde’s friend tells court of frantic search on day she went missing

Friend who was last to see Jayde alive called as first witness

Jayde Panayiotou’s friend in tears as she testifies

Lonely Jayde used to wait up for Christopher Panayiotou - friend | News24

Jayde Panayiotou waited up at night for her husband, court hears | The Citizen

Home - Missing Children South Africa

First on EWN: Jayde Panayiotou's husband arrested for her murder

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Back in 2005 the Shiraz complex in Stellenbosch had just been completed and the first set of tenants moved in, including 22-year-old student Inge Lotz. Inge was whip-smart, studying mathematics and stats at the University of Stellenbosch. She was a dedicated student who liked to stick to a schedule for her academic work, so when she wasn’t answering her phone on the night of 16 March 2005, her mom assumed she was head down in a book. Inge’s boyfriend Fred van der Vyver, however, was not as convinced. He’d been trying to reach Inge for hours. He calls a friend who lived nearby and sent him to check things out at Shiraz. There he'd find the savagely attacked body of Inge, kicking off a case that remains perplexing and unsolved today. 

SOURCES:

'I have stopped searching for answers' - Inge Lotz's dad | News24

'Inge has killed herself' | News24

Freddie Boy The Untold Story – A book covering the widely publicised murder trial of Inge Lotz as viewed through the eyes of one of Fred van der Vyver lawyers.

Fruit of a Poisoned Tree: https://www.amazon.com/Fruit-Poisoned-Tree-Antony-Altbeker/dp/1868423336

Hammer an ‘unlikely’ murder weapon in Van der Vyver case | News24

Hawks chase new Inge Lotz murder lead

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/students-boyfriend-lays-out-timeline-314986

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/weekend-argus-saturday-edition/20110827/281788510763001

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Inge and Fred 'over' | News24

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Lotz 'murderer's' alibi 'not watertight'

Lotz 'tried to avoid fatal blows'

Lotz murder accused acted strangely, court hears - The Mail & Guardian

Lotz's dad has ‘cut himself off from world’

Man 'confessed' to Inge murder | News24

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Who killed Inge? 11 years later mysterious Lotz murder still haunts | You

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Yes, I know that is a truly awful joke. I’m not even sorry though.  In this definitely-not-a-third-part episode, I want to pull a few loose threads that I simply couldn’t when I was putting together the larger narrative of the Station Strangler case and Norman Simons. 

Sources:

http://www.psychology.uct.ac.za/psy/staff/professors/colintredoux

https://www.dailyvoice.co.za/news/no-parole-for-station-strangler-21912705

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/cape-argus/20091211/283158604730132

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/cape-argus/20091211/283381943029524

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/cape-argus/20091214/282372625716970

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/weekend-argus-saturday-edition/20091212/283089885254251

https://www.uct.ac.za/downloads/uct.ac.za/news/lectures/inaugurals/Tredoux_inaugural.pdf

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This is part two of the Station Strangler. If you haven’t listened to part one, start there. Last week we covered a series of murders, from 1986 to 1992, and I told you about ten young boys who were raped and strangled before being dumped in various sites near the train stations and in the sand dunes of Mitchell’s Plain and surrounds. 

In early 1994, there had been a gap of over two years since the disappearance of any young boys had been definitively linked to the so-called Station Strangler, but soon we would learn that the nightmare was far from over. In January, just a single month, the bodies of eleven raped and murdered young victims would be found. This is what is known as the month of horror. 

PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ithappenedhere

SOURCES: 

https://apnews.com/article/c60bf1b31c1ad630cd17035149fe35c6

https://apnews.com/article/fb2a9bb403504cd9fe764badfb059bc7

https://mg.co.za/article/1994-09-09-station-strangler-whos-fooling-whom/

https://mg.co.za/article/2005-08-16-station-strangler-back-in-court/

https://mg.co.za/article/2007-04-25-late-judge-fondly-remembered-by-peers/?amp

https://www.deseret.com/1995/6/14/19177025/is-man-who-killed-boy-s-africa-s-serial-strangler

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/revisiting-the-station-strangler-cases-250970

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/serial-killer-inquest-hear-of-inconsistencies-400257

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-01-29-mn-16600-story.html

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/cape-argus/20091214/282372625716970

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/weekend-argus-saturday-edition/20140524/281625303343669

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/weekend-argus-saturday-edition/20091212/283089885254251

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/weekend-argus-sunday-edition/20091213/282737697936478

https://www.sahistory.org.za/place/cape-flats-cape-town

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fjWHrL6kIw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK8hFQR3ip8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JFGyQ78cvE

Profiling serial killers and other crimes in South Africa, by Micki Pistorius. The Penguin Group (South Africa), Cape Town 2005. ISBN 9780143024828 / ISBN 978-0-14-302482-8

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/revisiting-the-station-strangler-cases-250970

LOCATIONS

Mnandi Beach: https://goo.gl/maps/ikQ3RTwGKmnN5AAm7

Rocklands: https://goo.gl/maps/cezGmqXrmp1BQfS17

Westpoort Drive: https://goo.gl/maps/tmouV6igQ8impcjR6

Beacon Valley: https://goo.gl/maps/hVfKyhFViXn7Div86

Strand: https://goo.gl/maps/cavcHuZJ9LmAAn589

Kuils River: https://goo.gl/maps/WJmkweo3qcUuDNLU9

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The case of the Station Strangler unfolds at a critical and tense juncture of South African history. The majority of events here take place between 1986 and 1995, the last few years of apartheid. In fact, eleven victims bodies are found just weeks before our first democratic election in 1994. Only one man has ever been convicted of any crime associated with this spate of murders, although there is a lot of speculation that he wasn’t the only perpetrator. So many social, personal and political factors combined around this case, making it one of such horror and cultural significance in South Africa that for many of us, the dunes and the trains stations of Mitchell’s Plain and the Cape Flats still carry a taint of association – sites where at least 22 boys and young men met someone who lured them away, raped and killed them, before burying them in shallow sandy graves. 

PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ithappenedhere

SOURCES: 

https://apnews.com/article/c60bf1b31c1ad630cd17035149fe35c6

https://apnews.com/article/fb2a9bb403504cd9fe764badfb059bc7

https://mg.co.za/article/1994-09-09-station-strangler-whos-fooling-whom/

https://mg.co.za/article/2005-08-16-station-strangler-back-in-court/

https://mg.co.za/article/2007-04-25-late-judge-fondly-remembered-by-peers/?amp

https://www.deseret.com/1995/6/14/19177025/is-man-who-killed-boy-s-africa-s-serial-strangler

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/revisiting-the-station-strangler-cases-250970

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/serial-killer-inquest-hear-of-inconsistencies-400257

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-01-29-mn-16600-story.html

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/cape-argus/20091214/282372625716970

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/weekend-argus-saturday-edition/20140524/281625303343669

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/weekend-argus-saturday-edition/20091212/283089885254251

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/weekend-argus-sunday-edition/20091213/282737697936478

https://www.sahistory.org.za/place/cape-flats-cape-town

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This is part two of the Krugersdorp cult killings. At the centre of this is a woman called Cecilia Steyn who has created this epic backstory for herself, in which she is a former Satanist, a ritualistic abuse survivor, who wants to transform her life and walk with christ. So far she’s convinced Ria Grunewald and Ria’s prayer group turned sect Overcomers through Christ that for the church of satan, she’s the one who got away. And then she's turned a small breakaway group against Ria, and together perpetrated four murders in 2012. The next definitive point on our timeline - where this episode picks up the story again - is November 2015, when the group shifts from murder for revenge and belief, to murder for profit. 

 SOURCES:

·      The Krugersdorp killings explained: Who was murdered, how, and why | News24

·      Grandson is 'saviour' for victims of 'Krugersdorp killers'

·      Seven life terms in jail for Krugersdorp teen roped into murder by mom

·      Krugersdorp Killers: Six chilling details from Marinda Steyn's testimony

·      #KrugersdorpMurders – remaining three to learn their fate this week | Krugersdorp News

·      Krugersdorp killings: 'Witches will kill you,' Marcel Steyn's mom tells her in prison - report | News24

·      #KrugersdorpMurders — Marinda Steyn's testimony of why they started killing people | Krugersdorp News

·      #KrugersdorpMurders – God has forgiven me, says convicted murderer Marinda Steyn | Krugersdorp News

·      Krugersdorp killers strangled most victims to death

·      Main suspect in Krugersdorp murders suing police for over R3m

·      ‘Devilsdorp’ killers: Six bizarre details that didn’t make it into the doccie

·      Outrageous omission gives 'The Trials of Oscar Pistorius' a bitter taste

·      #KrugersdorpMurders – 'She was sent to open the gates of Hell' | Krugersdorp News

·      Cecilia Steyn – Candice Rijavec

·      'Remember I love you' - murdered Krugersdorp victim's last words to fiancée

·      First photo of all the accused in #TripleMurder case | Krugersdorp News

·      Life in jail for friends and neighbours guilty of Krugersdorp killing 'tsunami'

·      Interesting yet disturbing info about the #KrugersdorpMurders trial so far | Krugersdorp News

·      Krugersdorp killings: Cecilia Steyn denies being a satanist | News24

·      'Remember I love you' - murdered Krugersdorp victim's last words to fiancée

·      Krugersdorp killer says best friend was not murder 'mastermind'

·      Life in jail for friends and neighbours guilty of Krugersdorp killing 'tsunami'

·      'Krugersdorp Killers' torn by plea bargains

·      https://www.showmax.com/eng/tvseries/lguobeqc-devilsdorp

·     Devilsdorp - The Official Companion Podcast; https://iono.fm/c/6598

·      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KixioWhKJE4

·     https://www.npa.gov.za/sites/default/files/media releases/Indefinite%20Life%20Sentences%20for%20Krugersdorp%E2%80%99s%20Electus%20Per%20Deus%20Cult.pdf

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This is the story of eleven murders and six accused murderers. There are multiple methods of killing, multiple disposal MOs, a period of almost a decade from the first slayings to the sentencing, and many locations. You will meet some of the strangest characters, and hear bizarre, meandering stories of events and reasoning built on a flimsy pretext of belief, but this is also the story of a small group of friends, in a small town, a teacher, a school girl, her brother. On paper, at least at a surface level, they sound like no one you’ve ever encountered before and like 500 people I knew growing up– the extraordinary in the mundane. When this group and their crimes were finally exposed, the whole town of Krugersdorp was left grappling with a new and uncomfortable insight into itself. 

This is episode 8 - Devil in the ‘dorp: The Krugersdorp cult killers 

SOURCES:

·       'My mother put the hammer down and started stabbing her': chilling evidence in Krugersdorp murder trial

·       'Over-protected' Zak Valentine earned R70,000 a month when he began killing

·       'Pray, I am going to kill you now,' Krugersdorp murderer tells victim

·       'Remember I love you' - murdered Krugersdorp victim's last words to fiancée

·       ‘Ria Grunewald is dead. I lost everything’: Witness in Krugersdorp killings case tells how her life fell apart

·       #KrugersdorpMurders — State says Cecilia was the 'CEO' of this murderous 'company' | Krugersdorp News

·       #KrugersdorpMurders — The State's keywitness tells her story | Krugersdorp News

·       Devilsdorp - Showmax

·       Flats to Rent in Krugersdorp Central - 28 Apartments | RentUncle

·       Inside the mind of a teen drawn into the Krugersdorp killing spree

·       Key witness in Krugersdorp murder trial tells court of Wimpy werewolves | The Citizen

·       Krugersdorp killers strangled most victims to death

·       Krugersdorp Killers trial: Everything that’s happened so far | You

·       Krugersdorp Killers: Marcel Steyn has the mindset of a 10-year-old - defence | News24

·       Krugersdorp killers: Psychologist believes Marcel Steyn can be rehabilitated | All4Women

·       Krugersdorp killings: 'Witches will kill you,' Marcel Steyn's mom tells her in prison - report | News24

·       Krugersdorp murders: 'I was sure they would kill me if I didn't take part'

·       Life in jail for friends and neighbours guilty of Krugersdorp killing 'tsunami'

·       SAPS says “Signs of Satanic activity includes interest in computer” – South African Pagan Rights Alliance

·       The Krugersdorp killings explained: Who was murdered, how, and why | News24

·      Why Ria Grunewald COULD NOT Escape Earlier – Candice Rijavec

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