Over the last 18 months Johannesburg, South Africa has had five murders against gay men—each of which has occurred in very similar ways: police find each man bound and usually strangled, with no sign of forced entry and almost no theft, implying that the victim knew his killer. So how is it that despite the similarities local police have ruled out the possibility of a serial murderer?
According to Lieutenant-Colonel Lungelo Dlamini, one person could not have responsible for all the killings. In fact he says that one man is already on trial for one of the murders, two others involved in another murder have been extradited, and police have leads for possible suspects in the remaining homicides.
Dlamini’s conclusion also seems plausible considering the varying modus operandi used in two of the slayings—in one, the murderer poured acid over the victim’s dead body and in the most recent killing, the man was much older than the other victims and died of blunt force trauma to the head rather than strangulation. How gruesome.
David Venter
The Johannesburg police can’t even stop or solve “regular” murder (that sounds wrong? lol, but you know what I mean) – The only “serial” they know is “cereal”. They don’t want to even consider this as a serial murder because they simply wouldn’t know how to deal with it. They have no experience dealing with any sort of planned or organized crime and this is exactly why it’s so easy to get away with anything in South Africa, including murder. Sad but true.
Triple S
Well, this IS Africa. Africa has never and never will have any ability to fix anything wrong in its society. I wonder when it will change; nothing lasts forever, so why should Africa? …Nah, it won’t change.