Waarom 'haak mense se koppe uit'? Chris Mahlangu, wat vir Eugene Terre'Blanche vermoor het, het hom nie net doodgeslaan nie, hy het hom letterlik aan stukke gekap met 'n staalpyp. Een jong man slaan 'n verpleegster met 'n stuk hout in die veld dood en haar kêrel tot in die hospitaal se waakeenheid. 'n Ander slaan beide sy aanneemouers bewusteloos met 'n krieketkolf en dan steek hy hulle meer as 20 keer elk in die bors met 'n mes voor hy sy pa keel-af sny. 'n Manlike prostituut slaan sy vriend soveel keer met 'n knopkierie oor sy 'onsedelike voorstelle' dat dié sterf aan 'n skedelbreuk. Waarom sal 'n heteroseksuele man wat by prostitute slaap 'n seun by winkelsentrum oplaai en met hom lol?
Die boek bevat inligting oor persoonlikheidsversteurings, elke misdadiger se agtergrond, die dag van die misdaad, die hofsaak, dr Swanepoel se onderhoude en bevindings tydens die verhoor, tot die opvolgtronkbesoek - van aangesig tot aangesig met die monster.
When you next sit down at your local coffee shop, look around you: there may just be a professional hitman sitting at the next table. As author Mark Shaw reveals in this highly original and informative book, the 'upper world' sails perilously close to the underworld.
Hitmen for Hire takes the reader on a journey like no other, navigating a world of hammermen (hitmen), informers, rogue policemen, taxi bosses, gang leaders and crooked businessmen. The book examines a system in which contract killings have become the norm, looking at who arranges hits, where to find a hitman, and even what it is like to be a hitman - or woman.
Justice Served? - The Trial & Conviction of Bob Hewitt
Justice Served? The Trial and Conviction of Bob Hewitt covers various perspectives of the trial, from that of the state prosecutor to the defence advocate and other key role-players, includes Hewitt's appeal of sentence in 2016, and chronicles the spectacular fall from grace of a world-famous tennis legend.
In Koeëlreën gaan kyk die skrywer na die ballistiese arm van die forensies-wetenskaplike veld. 'n Fassinerende onderwerp. Met die Oscar Pistorius saak het die publiek bewus geword van die kritiese rol wat ballistiek speel by sake waar vuurwapens betrokke is. As daar één instrument is wat male sonder tal die wêreld verander het, soms in 'n oogwink, is dit vuurwapens. Dikwels word dit gesien as 'n instrument wat haat verwoord. Dit is en word steeds gebruik om politieke dispute te besleg, ideologieë af te dwing en word dikwels aangewend om die ongewenste been in 'n liefdesdriehoek op gewelddadige wyse uit die formule te verwyder.
Hierdie boek gaan delf in die geskiedenis en die ontwikkeling van die ballistiese wetenskap. Maar dit is nié 'n handboek nie. Tegnieke en die geskiedenis van die ontwikkeling daarvan word slegs aangeraak - net genoeg om die leser die insig te gee om te verstaan waarom dit gaan. Hoofsaaklik gaan dit om die verhale (sake) waarin ballistiese ondersoeke 'n kardinale rol gespeel het. Dit beskryf die saak en terselfdertyd bring dit die leser op hoogte van hoe die forensiese ballistiese wetenskap te werk gaan. Die ballistieke ondersoek staan nooit op sy eie nie, maar is altyd 'n deel van die legkaart waaruit die saak ontrafel moet word.
In die laaste plek word in-diepte gekyk na die mense wat aangeraak word nádat 'n sneller getrek is, die eggo's stil geword het en die kruitdamp in die verlede weggedryf het. Want elke insident verwoes lewens en die ballistiese wetenskap is méér as 'n ondersoek na tegniese feite - dit is ook daar sodat mense gestraf kan word en diegene wat daardeur geraak is, kan begin om te vergeet en aangaan met hulle lewens.
Wollie Wolmarans (medesamesteller van die boek), is een van die bekendste privaat ballistiese deskundiges in Suid-Afrika. Hy was betrokke by verskeie sake wat in die boek beskryf word en deel sy kennis en ervaring.
Moord is die mees betroubare/akkurate syfer wat gebruik word om die erns van misdaadstatistiek te reflekteer. Internasionaal word moord-statistiek gesien as 'n betroubare indikasie van die stabiliteit in 'n land. In die 12 maande tussen April 2015 en Maart 2016 het die voorkoms van moord in Suid-Afrika met 3,2% toegeneem. Dit is amper 'n 20% verhoging in moord oor die afgelope vier jaar.
Just who is Radovan Krejcir? Known as 'Baas John' to his underlings, he arrived in South Africa in 2007 under a false passport. He was a fugitive, a powerful Czech multimillionaire, who escaped from prison on fraud charges and fled to the good life in the Seychelles. But a bid by the Czech Republic to have him extradited saw Krejcir coming to South Africa. He was arrested at the airport, but an alleged bribe kept him in the country. Within a few years Krejcir had amassed great wealth and his name began being associated with underworld gang members such as Cyril Beeka and Lolly Jackson. It was the murder of Lolly Jackson that brought Krejcir's name into the limelight and revealed his dealing with crime intelligence boss Joey Mabasa and small time criminal George Louka.
Over the next three years 10 more deaths took place, each one more dramatic than the next. He was also the victim of a bizarre James Bond style shoot out. His business Moneypoint exploded when a bomb left inside a bag blew up, killing two associates. Soon afterward Krejcir was arrested, but in true Krejcir fashion even a jail cell could not hold him down. Police foiled a plan to murder top cop Colonel Nkosana Ximba and forensic investigator Paul O'Sullivan and to stop numerous escape attempts.
What really happened on that Valentine's evening of 13 February 2013 when Reeva Steenkamp was shot and killed in the toilet of Oscar Pistorius' house? Did Oscar know that Reeva was behind the toilet door? Or did Oscar truly believe that an intruder was hiding behind that door?
- Was Oscar on his stumps when he broke open the toilet door?
- What do the clothes Reeva was wearing when the paramedics arrived tell us about the crime?
- Which of the witnesses were in the best position to hear screams from Oscar's house?
- What caused the wounds on Reeva's back?
- Did the prosecution present all the evidence?
- What does the cricket bat tell us?
- Was Reeva alive when she was carried downstairs?
These are only some of the questions addressed in this full-colour book of 80 000 words and over 500 high-quality images - a book that informs as much as it exposes.
Anine Kriegler is a researcher with the Institute for Safety Governance in the Global South at the University of Cape Town. She holds Master's degrees from both UCT and Cambridge University, and is a Doctoral candidate in Criminology. Her research interests include the measurement of crime and victimisation, and drug markets.
Bloedsusters 2 Vlees en bloed
Roelien Schutte, Eileen de Jager, Riette Rust
Eileen en Roelien staan nie net as die Bloedsusters bekend omdat hulle biologiese susters is nie, maar ook omdat hulle daagliks bloederige misdaadtonele skoonmaak. Selfdood. Moord. Die heel wreedste plaasmoorde ook. Maar daar is nie altyd misdaad betrokke nie. Soms ruim die susters opgaarders se huise op - dikwels tot die plafon toe volgepak, en ander kere help hulle vloedwaters of 'n brand se skade herstel.
Blood Sisters 2 Flesh and blood
Eileen and Roelien are not only known as the Blood Bisters because they are biological sisters, but also due to the fact that cleaning bloody crime scenes is their day job. Suicides. Homicides. The most gruesome farm murders. But crime is not always involved. Sometimes the sisters clean up hoarders' homes - often packed to the ceiling with junk - at other times they help to restore damage caused by fire or floods.
The contents of this book will help to protect readers from potential fraud by giving them the power of knowledge. The book calls for more critical thinking in a gullible and naive world.
Gruesome - The crimes and criminals that shook South Africa
Gruesome - adj. Causing repulsion or horror, grisly. Informal extremely unpleasant. Origin C16f rom Scottish grue: 'to feel horror, shudder'; of Scandinavian origin.
In this book, investigative journalist De Wet Potgieter follows the trail of a number of criminals in South Africa's history. These violent crimes, perpetrated from the late 1980s into the new millennium, vary from fanatical far-rightists who killed their innocent countrymen, to assassins who executed high-profile, state-sanctioned murders. He takes the reader behind the scenes of some of the most controversial events in our country and, with his fearless style of writing, pulls you right into the belly of the beast.
In Gruesome, he shares information that has never before been made public. What really happened on the night of 17 June 1992 in Boipatong? What motivated the horrific attack on Alison Botha? What caused the ostensibly conformist policeman André Stander to become an unscrupulous bank robber? Who was the first person to see the connection between Gert van Rooyen's victims and a probable human-trafficking network?
Grusaam - b.nw. veroorsaak afsku, walging; afgryslik. Informeel geweldig onaangenaam. Oorsprong 16de eeu van die Skotse grue: om afgryse te voel; sidder, van Skandinawiese oorsprong.
In hierdie boek loop die ondersoekende joernalis De Wet Potgieter terug op die spore van 'n klomp geweldenaars in Suid-Afrika se geskiedenis. Dié geweldsmisdade, wat van die laat tagtigerjare tot in die nuwe millennium gepleeg is, wissel van fanatiese verregses wat medeburgers koelbloedig afmaai, tot geweldenaars wat hoëprofiel-staatsmoorde gepleeg het. Hy neem die leser tot agter die skerms van die mees omstrede voorvalle in ons land. Met sy onverskrokke skryfstyl trek Potgieter jou midde-in die sake in.
In Grusaam deel hy inligting wat nog nie voorheen openbaar gemaak is nie. Wat het werklik die nag van 17 Junie 1992 in Boipatong gebeur? Wat was die dryfkrag agter die gru-aanval op Alison Botha? Wat het van die doodgewone polisieman André Stander 'n gewetenlose bankrower gemaak? Wie het eerste die verband tussen Gert van Rooyen se slagoffers en 'n moontlike mensehandelsaak raakgesien?