'Killer hid confession letter under carpet'
Cops get a breakthrough in 13-year-old crime - report
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Radio 702's Eyewitness News reports that five men have been arrested for a murder committed over 13 years ago.
Letters containing details and confessions of crimes were discovered beneath the carpet of a Kenilworth home.
The owner of the home where the letters were found was installing new carpets in the house to accommodate a tenant, when the discovery was made.
“We were so intrigued, standing there. We were sweating, you know, and I said don’t drip sweat on the papers because you’re going to damage them.”
He said it felt like he was starring in a movie.
“It said to the person he left this letter to, ‘by the time you read this I will probably be dead’.”
The new homeowner passed the information onto the police, who spent weeks piecing together the puzzle, tracing cold cases and finally pouncing on the suspects.
The arrests unearthed particulars of a gang responsible for numerous violent and daring abductions.
These crimes apparently at times also involved two brothers that served as policemen.
The gang is alleged to have killed a woman and buried her behind the house where the letters were found.
Later the gang was forced to break up the concrete grave to dump the victim’s body elsewhere.
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Knoxmann
This is some movie type of ish 4 sure "Medical detectives"Report Abuse
LERATOLANNA
WILLIAM NKUNA STYLE OF KILLING. BLOODY AGENTReport Abuse
Prudence!
This just goes to prove that sh!t has a way of re-surfacing!Report Abuse
Voetzek
Even if is after 13 years music must be faced, Voetzek!!!!Report Abuse
TKay
I wonder why people write about their crimes...is it s sign a showing that they enjoy what they are doing or whatReport Abuse
SKIZOBANTWANA
Mara Sowetan its o use less, why leave us with unanswered questions..? where did it happen..? what race are the culprits..? what age are they..? where was the victim from..? did her family finally manage to get her body..?JEEEEEEER this newspaper is fl!ppin lo usy maan.
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tops
ubucwepheshe in the making ............damn foooooooooooolsReport Abuse
sabza007
In other countries...we have seen people being arrested and sentenced for crimes that they did more 30 years ago.I had clearly this story on Talk Radio 702. These guys abducted a lady and they shot her in a head and dumped her in Walkerville.They though she was d.e.a.d. She managed to get help and was taken to hospital. These guys heard that this lady is still alive and she is in hospital. They arranged someone who authorised that the lady be transferred to another hospital. The hospital staff suspected nothing,not knowing that the people who are taking her to another hospital were part of this gang. This time they made sure they killl her. Her family in Eastern Cape didn't know for whereabouts for the past 13 years.They though she was still alive and she is somewhere in Jozi.They got the shock of their lives when they were contacted by investigators that she was killled years back.
This story is very sad, thinking that policemen were involved in her killing as well.
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Di-Anne
Cops are involved in killings, they never get caught. Please Sowetan we need to know the names of people involved. I feel sorry for the family of the llady who was killed by this bastards. If the guy who wrote this note is dead, Satan must have had a big feast braaing his fu$$$n ballzReport Abuse
joyful
Thank God for the human conscience! that is what made them confess on a letter!I do hope the justice system do not fail, let the killers be jailed for life!
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