Many of Simelane's alleged victims were decapitated and most showed signs of rape. The children were suffocated. It is still not clear exactly how many of the victims are women and how many are children. Not all have been positively identified. The Swazi Press say Simelane lured some of his alleged victims with false promises of jobs or job interviews, gaining their confidence before killing them.
Serial killers tend to be intelligent and often come across as quite charming.
In the Swazi killings, the fact that no victims were discovered until at least 40 people were killed hardly helped matters. No body, no crime. But the police are still taking the flak for failing to connect the disappearance of so many women over a relatively short period of time in this small kingdom, which has a population of just under one million. Women in this country are very vulnerable and with the high unemployment rate many are desperate for work. This seems to have made them easy targets for this man.