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Profiler: True Crime Africa

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Profiler Africa is your front-row seat to the darkest corners of South African crime. Hosted by journalist Paul Llewellyn and forensic psychologist Gerard Labuschagne—former Head of Forensic Investigation at SAPS—this gripping podcast explores the psychology of serial killers, violent criminals, and the justice system that pursues them. 🔎 Exclusive interviews, real crime scene analysis, and untold details from SA’s most notorious cases. 🎧 Subscribe now and uncover the truth behind the killers

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01:54:01

PROFILER Episode 29 - A Conversation With Colonel...

Profiler: True Crime Africa ·

2022/12/30

An incredible first conversation with retiring Colonel Tollie Vreugdenburg, the Head of South Africa's counter terrorism efforts, about his incredible career. We focus today on 'Die Boeremag' case. You'd better sit down for incredible insights into why SAPS likely closed down the specialist units, to just how close Nelson Mandela came to losing his life. The episode marks the Colonel's retirement from service.

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01:21:12

PROFILER Episode 28 - Talking Forensic Pathology W Dr...

Profiler: True Crime Africa ·

2022/12/16

In this episode we take a fascinating deep dive into the world of Forensic Pathology with one of SA's leading experts, and a life long devotee to the profession, Dr Hestelle van Staden.

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00:59:26

PROFILER Episode 27 - The Newcastle Serial Killer

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2022/12/09

In Newcastle, a town between Joburg and Durban in South Africa, in 2004, four men are murdered over the period of a year. All are killed in or around the exercise park bordering the town. Two of the incidents take place when the killer interrupts young couples engaging in romantic activities. He rapes the woman in each case, but he lets them live. The murders are brutal and the killer leaves little evidence. How will police eventually catch this incredibly dangerous murderer?

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01:37:22

PROFILER Episode 26 - The Right Wing Tale of Harry...

Profiler: True Crime Africa ·

2022/11/29

On 28 November 2019 the Crimes Against the State (CATS) unit of the South African Police Service (SAPS) arrested Harry Johannes Knoesen (60) at his girlfriend’s home in Witbank, South Africa. The charge? Contravening the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities Act (33 of 2004) by preparing and planning to carry out terrorist attacks, and soliciting support for an entity engaged in terrorist activity. The following day three co-conspirators were arrested.

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01:18:47

PROFILER Episode 25 - The Westonaria Strangler

Profiler: True Crime Africa ·

2022/11/14

“I want you to help me because when I am with a woman, I lose control and don’t know what I am doing. I kill all of them if they don’t give me what I want”...meet serial killer Jack Mogale, the subject of this week's episode.

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01:13:07

PROFILER Episode 24 - Talking True Crime SA With...

Profiler: True Crime Africa ·

2022/11/07

In this episode we chat with Nicole Engelbrecht, creator and host of the True Crime South Africa Podcast, and author of 'Samurai Sword Murder', which tells the story of Morne Harmse, who attacked a number of people with a samurai sword at the Nic Diederichs high school in Krugersdorp in 2008.

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01:09:08

PROFILER Episode 23 - The State versus Mariska Du...

Profiler: True Crime Africa ·

2022/10/31

On 23 June 2017 Mariska du Plessis made two calls to the police. In the first at 22:55 she said that her husband, was attacking her son and herself. In the second, made at 23:15, she advised police that her husband had been shot by intruders. So what actually happened?

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01:10:32

PROFILER Episode 22 - Current Cases (The Bodies in...

Profiler: True Crime Africa ·

2022/10/24

This week we discuss some current cases, including the discovery of the bodies of murdered sex workers in downtown Joburg recently. Plus, we break down Forensic Psychology, and Gerard explains how you might set about learning to do what he does!

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00:53:38

PROFILER Episode 21 - Killing the King of America: A...

Profiler: True Crime Africa ·

2022/10/17

Around the time of US president Barrack Obama’s visit to Sub-Saharan Africa in June/July 2013 an emailed death threat was received by the US consulate in Johannesburg. This is the story of the man who sent it.

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01:17:17

PROFILER Episode 20 - Gerhard Jansen van Vuuren & the...

Profiler: True Crime Africa ·

2022/10/10

That one case that Gerard was determined to see through to a conviction. How Gerhard janse van Vuuren murdered his girlfriend Andrea Venter, and then tried to get away with it.

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01:13:36

PROFILER Episode 19 - Brian The Stalker Harvey

Profiler: True Crime Africa ·

2022/03/24

We travel back to 2010 and discuss the case of Brian Harvey who stalked over 40 women.

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01:23:46

PROFILER Episode 18 - JOSEPH THE AXEMAN NTSHONGWANA

Profiler: True Crime Africa ·

2022/03/02

In the space of just 8 days in March 2011 Joseph Ntshongwana killed four people, some of whom he decapitated with an axe.

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PROFILER Episode 17 - CATCHING UP PT 2

Profiler: True Crime Africa ·

2022/03/02

More catching up...this time we talk about Gerard's 2nd book and tease the cases within it.

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PROFILER Episode 16 - CATCHING UP PT 1

Profiler: True Crime Africa ·

2022/02/18

Profiler is back with new episodes. Paul catches up with Gerard to discuss his book, surviving a pandemic, and his thoughts on the current state of the police and crime in SA. Oh...and don't worry we will be giving away that book on social media!

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01:19:13

PROFILER Episode 15 - THE AXE KILLER JOSE DA SILVA

Profiler: True Crime Africa ·

2021/03/11

In 2002, Gerard attended his first crime scene. It was that of the murder victim of Jose da Silva, who would become known as the Axe Killer. Hear the true audio from the interview conducted by Gerard, in the bathroom, where he killed his victim, on the day he was arrested. A gripping insight into the mind of a killer!

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PROFILER Episode 14 - Tommy Williams

Profiler: True Crime Africa ·

2021/02/26

The incredible tale of South Africa's longest active serial killer. Upon his conviction the Judge said “The State (and here I include the two prosecutors and the SAPS investigating team) have excelled in investigating and prosecuting this case to its ultimate successful conclusion. The difficulties should be self-evident, given the fact that the 1987 matter occurred twenty two years ago, the inquest docket had been destroyed and material witnesses have passed away or have retired. The same

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PROFILER Episode 13 - Stewart 'Boetie Boer' Wilken

Profiler: True Crime Africa ·

2021/02/18

I would strangle them while having sex. I would go into another world when I am strangling them and raping them. When I was strangling them, they would go limp, like a jellyfish, made me feel like a king .... I had sex with some of the dead bodies. Then I can have my ecstasy. Then I can do things the way I wanted to, there is no screaming and chaos. I would fantasize about the murder and masturbate at the body also (an excerpt from an interview in 2006, with the serial killer Stewart Boetie Boer

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00:52:15

PROFILER Episode 12 - The Knysna Murders

Profiler: True Crime Africa ·

2021/02/04

In this episode we discuss a series of murders that took place in Knysna over a one-month period in Autumn, 2005. They became known as The Knysna Murders. Heinrich van Rooyen, a young DJ, was convicted for the murders of Jessica Wheeler(18) and Victoria Stadler(20).

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PROFILER Episode 11 - Violent Fantasy

Profiler: True Crime Africa ·

2019/08/27

In this episode we discuss Violent Fantasy illustrated through the murder of Michael van Eck in Welkom in 2011. Michael was lured via a dating app to a secluded area, where he was murdered and dismembered. Later his face was skinned. What drove two people to do this?

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PROFILER Episode 10 - The Norwood Serial Killer

Profiler: True Crime Africa ·

2019/08/20

Kobus Geldenhuys, the Norwood Serial Killer, committed house robberies, rapes and murders in the early 1990s in Johannesburg. A policeman, he raped 2 victims and murdered 5. Gerard interviewed Kobus from 1996 to 2001, and again in 2011.

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