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  • Alice & Helen Lotter

    Welcome fellow armchair detectives! Join your hosts Ashleigh Botes and Tamlyn Rossouw as they explore the issue of GBV and Femicide by exploring the victims and their stories.


    This is the case of Alice and Helen Lotter


    Helen Lotter, a 57-year-old woman and her mother lived together and died together. They were found dead at their Free state farmhouse. It is said that their gardener and one of his friends brutally murdered the two. Helen was found with all of her front teeth bashed out and her entire body covered in bruises, chafing and stab wounds…



    28 min
  • Kia & Brenda Fairhead

    Welcome fellow armchair detectives! Join your hosts Ashleigh Botes and Tamlyn Rossouw as they explore the issue of GBV and Femicide by exploring the victims and their stories.


    This is the case of Kia and Brenda Fairhead


    The Fairhead family lived a really beautiful life that was filled with great potential. With Kia being only 11 and both her parents having made a name for themselves in the south african business world their life had so many experiences and memories that they would share together. However after a weekend of celebration and a fishing trip that goes fatally wrong those dreams and experiences are brought to a grinding halt.



    22 min
  • Muti Murder Discussion

    Welcome fellow armchair detectives! Join your hosts Ashleigh Botes and Tamlyn Rossouw as they explore the issue of GBV and Femicide by exploring the victims and their stories.



    In today's episode your hosts will be having a very gruesome yet real discussion about muti murder. They will also be discussing the case of young and old that have been victims of this practice. So be sure to tune in and be part of the discussion!



    40 min
  • Siam Lee

    Welcome fellow armchair detectives! Join your hosts Ashleigh Botes and Tamlyn Rossouw as they explore the issue of GBV and Femicide by exploring the victims and their stories.


    This is the case of Siam Lee


    January 2018, it is a typical beautiful day for the people of New Hanavor. Surrounded by the lush sugar cane fields and beautiful scenery a farmer and his grandson decide to go on a fishing trip. What was supposed to be a day filled with happiness and creating new memories soon become a horror story that no one would ever forget. As they would make their way along the road adjacent to the sugar cane fields they would see the body of a 20 year old female burnt so badly that all you could see was the shiny silver nail polish on her hands and feet.



    27 min
  • Corrective Rape Discussion

    Welcome fellow armchair detectives! Join your hosts Ashleigh Botes and Tamlyn Rossouw as they explore the issue of GBV and Femicide by exploring the victims and their stories.


    In today's episode your hosts will be having an educational discussion about corrective rape. They will also be discussing the cases of young and old  that have been victims of this practice. So be sure to tune in and be part of the discussion!



    36 min
  • Leigh Matthews Part 2

    Welcome fellow armchair detectives! Join your hosts Ashleigh Botes and Tamlyn Rossouw as they explore the issue of GBV and Femicide by exploring the victims and their stories.


    This is the case of Leigh Matthews

    Part 2

    Leigh Matthews was a student at Bond’s university who was kidnapped and murdered. Her disappearance and murder sparked a media frenzy, with the following investigation and court case being one of the most closely followed in South African history



    37 min
  • Leigh Matthews Part 1

    Welcome fellow armchair detectives! Join your hosts Ashleigh Botes and Tamlyn Rossouw as they explore the issue of GBV and Femicide by exploring the victims and their stories.


    This is the case of Leigh Matthews

    Part 1


    Leigh Matthews was a student at Bond’s university who was kidnapped and murdered. Her disappearance and murder sparked a media frenzy, with the following investigation and court case being one of the most closely followed in South African history.



    36 min
  • Kimeera Rajbunsi

    Welcome fellow armchair detectives! Join your hosts Ashleigh Botes and Tamlyn Rossouw as they explore the issue of GBV and Femicide by exploring the victims and their stories.


    This is the case of Kimeera Rajbunsi


    Kimeera Rajbunsi was a bubbly, dynamic & well-liked 17-year-old that attended Woodview Secondary school. Sholin Bissoon also attended the school & this is where the two would meet & eventually become high school sweetheart until after two years of dating Kimeera broke it off. Unwilling to accept their break-up, Bissoon bludgeoned his former girlfriend with a frying pan, stabbed her in the chest and dumped her body in a sugarcane field



    38 min
  • Ashika Singh

    Welcome fellow armchair detectives! Join your hosts Ashleigh Botes and Tamlyn Rossouw as they explore the issue of GBV and Femicide by exploring the victims and their stories.


    This is the case of Ashika Singh


    In the early hours of 3 March 2014 Mrs Dolly Singh arrived home after a night out with friends, when she found the lifeless body of her daughter, Ashika Singh, on her bed. She had been strangled. The house had been ransacked but It wasn’t Ashika’s missing phone or car that rang alarm bells, it was her missing live-in boyfriend that was. 



    24 min
  • Femicide Discussion

    Welcome fellow armchair detectives! Join your hosts Ashleigh Botes and Tamlyn Rossouw as they explore the issue of GBV and Femicide by exploring the victims and their stories.


    In today's episode your hosts will be having thought provoking discussion about femicide, what it is and much more! So be sure to tune in and be part of the discussion.



    31 min

About Just in Crime

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Welcome to Just in Crime! A true crime podcast that investigates the growing issue of femicide and gender based violence in South Africa. Join your two armchair detectives, Ashleigh Botes and Tamlyn…