FOR nearly 30 years, investigators have searched for the six missing girls believed to have been killed by paedophile Gert van Rooyen.
With his accomplice Joey Haarhoff, the abductor lured the innocent pre-teens into his evil web during the late 1980s.
A nationwide search for the victims – or their bodies – had all but come to an end before new evidence emerged last week that one or more of the girls had been buried in the sand at Blythedale beach.
It came as no surprise to this reporter.
A psychic, more than 20 years ago, told us that was the burial place.
The Zululand Observer became an important link in the investigation, and this is how it happened.
Pam Adams of Empangeni had the terrible shock of finding out her contractor husband, Raymond, had been shot and killed while on site in eSikhaweni (the culprit was never apprehended).
Pam claims she then began receiving psychic communication from Raymond, with the correspondence between them emerging in writing as she sat with notepaper and pen.
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Raymond then connected her with the spirits of the missing girls, who also corresponded in writing.
She produced copies of apparent communication with the girls, whose handwriting appeared in basic cursive form as of a school beginner.
The content directed her to a hidden monument in the dunes in front of an abandoned house at Blythedale.
It told of their abduction and death at the hands of the paedophile.
The ZO passed on this information to investigating officers and in November 1996 drove Pam down to meet with them at the house, which looked exactly the way she had described it to them.
Intensive examination of the house – specifically one dingy room where they may have been held hostage – followed, and according to Pam, 26 exhibits of interest for forensic evidence were recovered.
This included a small pair of shorts hidden in a paint tin, and stands of long blonde hair.
In addition, a police sniffer dog had pawed at newly laid cement under a bath, while the record was produced of a Gert van Rooyen booking in to a nearby holiday accommodation establishment.
None of this ever led to solving the case and was dismissed after investigation.
‘The outcomes of the investigations were never revealed to me. However, the detective who was dealing with me was barred from having any further contact with me,’ she said on Thursday.
Many people believed evidence that could have led to the conviction of a number of prominent people, was destroyed or not pursued – possibly because protection was being given from senior police members.
At the time, rumour was rife of senior police hierarchy, military officers and government officials being connected to a sex and/or paedophile ring.
All went quiet, until last week, when the search returned to where it began 21 years ago.
Maybe this time, the answers will emerge.
‘I do pray they find closure. It’s been a long and painful road,’ said Pam.
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