Being the country with the second-highest serial killer quota (after the United States), here is a list of some of South Africa’s most brutal serial killers.
• Stewart Wilken – A necrophiliac working for God. In 1990 Wilken raped and killed 10 victims in Port Elizabeth. Wilken was also charged with a strange brand of necrophilia, as his horrific sex crimes were motivated by a notion of delivering his victims to God, including his own daughter.
• Moses Sithole – The so called ABC Killer. Moses Sithole raped and killed nearly 40 women in a year, causing panic across the nation. He is incarcerated in the maximum security section of Pretoria Central Prison.
• Cedric Maake – The Wemmer Pan killer. Cedric Maake killed 35 people in one and a half years between 1996 and 1997. His preferred method of killing was bludgeoning his victims to death with a hammer or blunt rock
• Daisy de Melker – She poisoned two husbands and also her only son. She did all of this in the name of money. Daisy de Melker became the second woman to be executed in South Africa in the 1920s.
• Gert van Rooyen – avoided trial for paedophilia by committing suicide. Van Rooyen and girlfriend Joey Haarhoff have been linked to the deaths of at least six young girls in the late 1980s whose bodies all remain missing to this day. His victims are believed to have been raped and brutalised before their deaths.
(Source: Thesouthafrican.com)
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