Ruth Lawrence had been on the run for eight years in connection with the double murder of her two best friends.
Double murder on Camps Bay beach. ‘Mini Auschwitz’ discovered. Chess ‘cheat’ not backing down. Gisele ditches wedding ring.
South Africa’s Military Police Division is rife with allegations of underhanded dealings, including one case where high-ranking generals could be implicated in a murder cover-up.
Raymond Papapavlou and his wife, Simoné, appeared to be a happy couple. But behind the closed doors of their modest farmhouse outside Groblersdal in Limpopo, all was not as it seemed.
It has been more than 40 years since Lynette Dawson went missing from her home on Sydney’s northern beaches. As one of Australia’s longest-running cold cases, her body has still never been found.
Marietha Willemse, 79, was stabbed to death in her home at the exclusive golfing estate Pinnacle Point in Mossel Bay on June 3.
Two Japanese men fled from their home country to South Africa, hoping to get away with murder. But their plan to build a new life in KwaZulu-Natal didn’t go to script in the end.
Juandré Kidson knew that the N4 between Pretoria and Rustenburg was notorious for the criminals that operated on that stretch.
Courtney Clenney, a successful OnlyFans model, fatally stabbed her boyfriend in the luxury Miami apartment unit that they shared.
Vorayuth “Boss” Yoovidhya is heir to a fortune estimated to be worth in excess of $26 billion. He’s also on the run from the law.
On January 20, 2003, Adam Woest and Trevor Theys entered Sizzlers, a Sea Point male-to-male massage parlour on Graham Street, and carried out a hate crime of monstrous proportions.
Nationally, there is an average of 34 murders per 100 000 people, but that number is far higher in Cape Town.
Yesterday morning, customers enjoying a meal at Tashas in Rosebank’s The Zone Mall had to run for cover after hearing a couple of gunshots ring out.
Three people died on the scene, while the fourth was rushed to hospital where they succumbed to their injuries.
Whenever our national crime statistics are released, numbers get crunched and we’re left looking at some staggering numbers.
The romance novelist who wrote a blog post titled ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ has just been found guilty of – wait for it – murdering her husband.
The Telegraph gave ‘Holy Spider’ a full five-star review, remarking on how the film is “profoundly compelling, expertly made, and quite intentionally horrifying”.
In a 2011 blog post titled ‘How to Murder Your Husband’, Nancy Brophy wrote that a wife who wants to get away with mariticide needs to be “organised, ruthless and very clever”.
Green Point’s New Somerset Hospital was the scene of a triple killing on Saturday.
On Tuesday, 56-year-old Daniel Smit made his second appearance in the Klawer Magistrate’s Court. During proceedings, his lawyer read out a statement detailing how 13-year-old Jerobiojin van Wyk was murdered.
Family and advocates of Melissa Lucio are fighting to stop her looming execution, pleading with Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the state’s board of pardons to intervene.
Christine Robinson was murdered in 2014 but the investigation was going nowhere until her niece in the UK did some digging.
A revenge-filled murderous teen had packed bags full of things like cleaning equipment, duct tape, and a knife in a plot to murder her ex.
Hannah Cornelius was murdered in 2017 after being attacked while sitting in her car outside a friend’s residence.
That’s Carol Maltesi, a 26-year-old adult performer who was found in 15 chopped pieces thawing in black bags all over an area two hours outside Milan.
Four major South African cities feature on the Mexican Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice’s list of the 50 most violent cities in the world.
In August 2008, Morné Harmse brought a Japanese ‘samurai’ sword to school and killed fellow pupil Jacques Pretorius.
The University of Limpopo is mourning the loss of Professor Mohamed Saber Tayob, murdered while out jogging yesterday morning.
Double murderer Ian Stewart was given a rare whole-life prison sentence yesterday, meaning he will never walk free.
Daniel Smit was arrested last week in connection with the disappearance of 13-year-old Jerobiojin van Wyk. He says he’s carried out multiple occult murders in Sea Point.