WEBVTT - Episode 8: Vile Hearts 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:03.720 School of Humans. 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:08.760 This show follows the investigation of serial murders and contains 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:10.360 material that may be disturbing. 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:12.800 Listener discretion advised. 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:24.000 Jared Jackson went missing on December sixteenth of twenty sixteen, 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:27.720 the same day that Zack Valentine was apparently killed in 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:33.560 a car accident. This was no coincidence. After both men disappeared, 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:38.080 Alectis Perdaeis worked feverishly to get their hands on Zack 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:42.040 Valentine's life insurance PEA, and when a friend posted about 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:44.920 Zach's death on Facebook, the group thought they were in 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.400 the clear. They saw this as a green light to 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:51.919 file the claim, but these things take time, something EPD 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:57.440 didn't have. Someone else saw the post. Two Detective Susette 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:01.120 Canotse's daughter Shaney. She alerted her mother, I. 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.880 Read something on Facebook and she was like, oh, this 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:05.360 may be a link. 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:06.000 To my pace. 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:09.479 Although she was not working on the case, it had 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:13.040 stayed with her these last four years, so Suzette called 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:16.920 it in. She warned authorities to be extra suspicious of 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:22.319 anything involving Zach Valentine or Cecilia Stein. Her instincts were, 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:26.520 as usual, right on the money. Zach was in hiding 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.319 pretending to be dead until the coast was clear. Here's 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:31.560 Detective Ben Boysen. 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:36.000 Zack Valentine became an issue for him because he wasn't hiding. 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:44.360 He said diabetic. He needed medicine. I didn't have money. 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:49.920 Life on the run was hard for Zach for obvious reasons. 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.639 He couldn't get a job, so he spent his days 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:55.880 and nights hold up in a cheap hotel outside Krueger's door, 0:01:56.680 --> 0:02:03.680 living on cup of noodles, cigarettes, and the insolent brought him. 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.560 It would make sense that Laru would be genuinely concerned 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:10.040 for Zach. After all, he was the closest thing Laroux 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.600 had to a father or an older brother. According to 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:17.840 Yana Marx's book, LaRue warned Zack that Cecilia and the 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.680 others were considering getting rid of him because he was 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:22.799 becoming too expensive to keep alive. 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.760 Maranda was working as a teacher. Salary was not enough 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.280 for all those people to live and to buy Zach 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.679 Valentine's medicine. So I think at the end of the 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:34.000 day they would have killed. 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:37.040 Him because they had gotten away with so much already. 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:41.400 Though Secilia and Marinda thought they were untouchable, here's doctor 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.000 Nikki Falkoff we met earlier in the series. 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.320 Once you realized that the thing that is the most 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:51.040 taboo thing imaginable is actually possible for you to do, 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:54.959 your sense of yourself as being subject to the same 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:59.519 rules as everybody else in society probably starts to slowly disintegrate. 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.440 For these things like murder, like stealing, They've become lessonless 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:05.000 to booth for you as time goes by. 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.480 Because you think you were different, do you think you're exceptional? 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:14.280 When the money didn't come. After Jared's death, EPD returned 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:18.640 to their old ways of haphazard, over zealous murder. While 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:22.720 some of epd's final victims were acquaintances and fellow members 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.959 of the Krugersdorp community, they were, ultimately, to Sicilia and Mirinda, 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:31.200 a means to an end, raw resources to be mined 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:36.040 in pursuit of a financial windfall. EPD now treated murder 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:40.840 as casually as a day at the office. Meanwhile, the 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:44.680 impact of their crimes shook Krugersdorp to its core, because 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:48.640 now anyone with a bank account was a potential target. 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.480 It could have been me and you. They were doing 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.400 regular jobs, showing up for appointment and they were killed. 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:58.240 From School of Humans and iHeart podcasts. This is Queen 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:02.320 Havoc and her murder cult. I'm your host, Kurt Kupachek, 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:12.320 Episode eight, Vile Hearts. If you've come this far with us, 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.720 you know this story is a bramble, a mess of 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:19.919 moving parts, a not that titans in the stomach and 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:24.080 won't let you rest until you've untied the narrative. There's 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.200 no way to tell this story without becoming sort of 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:31.880 consumed by it. Our colleague Jamaine Kriher warned us about 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:33.920 this actually while we were in South Africa. 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.600 Every time you think you understand what's happening, you realize 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.080 that you're wrong. If you let it, this is the 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.800 type of story that will absolutely take over your life 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:44.960 because I don't think there'll ever be an end to it. 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.760 I think every time you turn a corner there's something new. 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.479 Pulling at all these dark and twisted threads is heroin, 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.440 even for a seasoned journalist like Yanna Marx. 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:59.000 I had to work through every single piece of information 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:02.479 to be able to portray it accurately, and that meant 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:06.320 I had to like relive or try to put myself 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.320 there on the scene, try to relive through the dockets, 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:13.200 to photos, the different narratives, and yeah, I mean it 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:13.920 took quite at all. 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.599 And I will struggle to sleep. I would get bad 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.520 dreams because it was hard. It's hard stuff and if 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:21.960 you're close to something like that, I mean, I can 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.039 just imagine if that's what I went through, how it 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:27.360 must have been for the family members of these victims. 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:32.320 Between the whiffs of Satanism, the manipulation of Christianity, the 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:36.120 crooked cops, the slaughter of innocence, and the gross human 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:40.120 capacity for this level of brutality, this story took over 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:44.359 our lives too. It was quite a daunting challenge to 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:49.200 unravel truth from fiction, to detangle lies from hearsay and memory. 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:54.000 This long after the fact, there are pieces of this story, 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.480 details that we were forced to omit for the sake 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:02.039 of clarity, because, as Jamaine pointed out, every time you 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:06.039 turn a corner, there's a new perspective to consider. We've 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.560 done our best to dig for the truth and allowed 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:13.360 to become our compass. And the sad fact of this 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:17.440 moment is that Electus Perdais would seemingly stop at nothing 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:22.479 to satiate Cecilia's greed and lust for power. The appointment 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:27.520 murders continued in twenty sixteen. EPD believed they were above 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:31.560 the law, and so they struck close to home, taking 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:38.279 advantage of their actual neighbors. It was late summer in 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:42.679 the Southern Hemisphere when the murders began again, just after 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.359 the realization that the insurance money was not going to 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:51.599 hit their bank accounts for some time. On January twenty seventh, 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:55.800 twenty sixteen, EPD took aim at fifty seven year old 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:56.640 Glenn McGregor. 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:00.919 John Barnett used to lift opposite him actually knew exactly 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:02.000 where he was living. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:06.000 McGregor wasn't rich, but he was a tax consultant that 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:10.119 qualified him. Surely he had money squirreled away somewhere. John 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:13.400 Barnard told his cohort what he apparently knew. For a fact, 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.760 McGregor didn't trust banks, so he must keep all his 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:21.200 money at home. Cecilia and Mirinda also knew McGregor. He 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.360 was a local. He lived just outside Krueger's Torp, but 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.880 his office was only a few blocks away from Cassana Flats. 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:32.679 John Barnard actually rented property from Glenn, and the group 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:37.080 had once teased Mirinda about Glenn being a potential mate. 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.360 Driving along the dusty streets of Krueger's Torp with Ben, 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:46.200 we passed MacGregor's office. The awning still eerily bears his name. 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:51.320 Now you see Wheeler MacGregor and Associates, and this was 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:52.640 his office. 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.920 Mirinda met McGregor at that same office, claiming she needed 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:02.760 tax advice. True to form, she talked him into a 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:11.680 business meeting later at his home. McGregor was surprised when 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:13.920 he opened the door to see Mirinda and her two 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:17.600 grown children standing there. She never said anything about bringing 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:21.800 her kids, but he graciously invited them in. They chatted 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:25.480 for about twenty minutes. It was friendly enough, some get 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:29.440 to know you chit chat. Then, without warning, Mirinda pulled 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:33.200 out a gun. She shoved it in McGregor's face. This 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:37.720 is a stick up, she shouted. MacGregor laughed loudly, but 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:41.040 then quickly froze once he realized this was no joke. 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:46.360 Marinda's face matched the flat, pallid expressions of her two children. 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:51.160 Their plan hold him at gunpoint, get his banking information, 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:55.840 drain his accounts, then strangle him. No gun meant no 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:59.720 ballistic evidence. Then they would leave just as they left 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:06.680 the other to be discovered by a loved one. But 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:13.560 as usual, things went awry. McGregor stood up, ready to 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:17.920 take on LaRue to fight for his life. McGregor was 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:22.480 a much bigger man than LaRue, so Marinda panicked. Fearing 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:26.520 for her son's life and the plan falling apart, she 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:30.360 fired her twenty two pistol, landing two bullets in McGregor's gut. 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:37.280 McGregor collapsed to the floor, LaRue bound his feet. Marcelle 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:42.160 got busy searching the house for cash. Mirinda bent down, 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:46.120 low her lips to his ear. She promised Glenn she'd 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.720 call an ambulance. In exchange for access to his banking 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:55.520 app Mirinda managed to transfer six thousand Rand about three 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:59.840 hundred and twenty US dollars into her bank account for cover. 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:05.000 She attached a memo to the transfer great Fuck. Once 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:08.920 the money was delivered, Marinda demanded that LaRue finish Glen 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:13.000 off with his rope. She nicknamed it his chokey chokie 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:18.440 after he had used it on Dearren Jackson. Before Mirinda 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:22.160 and her children fled their victims home, they slipped Glenn's 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.959 body into the bathtub and left him soaking in warm water. 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.640 Cecilia said it would throw off the coroner's estimated time 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:38.760 of death. That's where McGregor was discovered the next day. 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:44.480 That afternoon, on January twenty eighth, while Mirinda was teaching 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:48.200 her students English, Cecilia sent LaRue to the high school 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.240 to fetch Marinda's bank card so he could withdraw all 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:55.400 the money from McGregor and hand it over immediately. Cecilia 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.559 wanted to keep all the money in her own hands. 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.120 Confident they'd got and away with yet another murder, the 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:06.120 members of EPD subsisted for the next few months on 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:11.160 what little they'd robbed from McGregor. That paltry sum a 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:14.920 mere three hundred bucks, was why Glenn McGregor had to die. 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:20.200 His life was worth two months of time for Zach Valentine. 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:25.160 Soon enough, Cecilia decided they needed a bigger score, which 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:30.720 meant they needed to kill again. In less than a month, 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:34.360 between May tenth and May thirty first of twenty sixteen, 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:40.000 they committed three more murders. Maritzka Cootsaer was a respected 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.760 local crime reporter at the time, and covered the next 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:44.040 murder of Anthony. 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:47.560 Scholfield to us, the first murder felt like Anthony Scholfield 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.480 because that's actually when it started falling a botch. 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:54.559 You know, here's Colonel Christelle Boisen who spoke to Anthony's wife. 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.360 This was like the pilot murder for them, you know, 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.440 trying out a pilot plan and if this works, we're 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:03.640 going to do it again. And surely they did it 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.800 again with the two other murders that followed after. 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:11.160 Other than the Myers and McGregor, all the appointment murders 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:15.200 took place in Kruger's door proper. In fact, the remaining 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:19.280 three murders would all be carried out inside Mirinda's own 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.199 apartment at Casana Flats. 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:27.040 Playing with Marinda was John Barnat and LaRue. Marcel stayed 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:31.520 with Cecilia downstairs. Marinda stayed in the living room and 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.640 that's where they killed, and she was sleeping d every 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:36.000 night after the Quler. 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:44.640 On May tenth, twenty sixteen, Anthony Schofield, a financial broker 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:49.280 that Marenda had worked with in the past, got a call. LaRue, 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.160 using a fake name and a cheap SIM card, set 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.719 the appointment through Schofield's wife and bookkeeper, Heather. They were 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.600 to meet their prospective client at key West, a shopping 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:02.880 center and krugers Dorp. Here's Colonel Christelle Boison, who spoke 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:04.240 to Anthony's wife. 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:07.640 Mister Sheffield, informed us that on the day of the murder, 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:10.920 she was actually packing the caravan because her and a 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:14.080 husband would have gone on this long camping trip on 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.880 the first one that they've taken for a very long while, 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:21.560 and Shelfield was just attending his last appointment before they 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:24.720 would have left for the Strip. He did leave, but 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:25.920 he never came back. 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:33.040 LaRue called Schofield right at their meeting time six o'clock, 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:37.480 saying he had a crisis. He asked if Schofield could 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.640 come to his place for the meeting instead, the address 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:46.240 seventeen Cassana. Schofield obliged and was surprised when he arrived 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.680 in saw Marinda there. Good grief, you live here too, 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:54.120 he said. They acted fast, holding him at gunpoint a 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:57.520 thirty eight special this time until he handed over his 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:02.040 bank card and pin into ordered Marcel and John Barnard 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.559 to go to the ATM down the street and make 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:08.800 sure the pin number worked. Cash in hand, they headed back. 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:13.480 Schofield was dead by the time they returned, John and 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:17.160 LaRue wrapped his body in a black plastic bag and 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.280 carried it down the stairs, grabbing his car keys on 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.640 the way out. They placed the body in his trunk 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.840 or the boot as they call it, and abandoned his 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:30.480 Honda a few streets away, leaving the keys in the ignition, 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.800 hoping that a desperate person might steal the car with 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:39.240 the body in it. Maritzka coats there recalls the day 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.000 law enforcement found his body. 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.920 Anthony Schorefield was murdered. It was my first off day 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:48.880 in months. So my contact, you know, she sends men Macy. 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.640 She's like, listen here an elderly man murdered, found in 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.120 his boot. You know you need to write the story. 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.960 Tired but committed to her work, Maritzka drove to the 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:00.600 scene first. 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.720 Time, pissed off because it's my off days, but out 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:06.000 of curiosity, I drove to the school where his body 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.720 was found. Tried to see if I could find anything. 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:12.480 You know, because when you write as a journalist, you know, 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.360 you get familiar with your community, You get familiar with 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.920 the crimes, You start understanding things. 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.440 Although Krueger's door had a lot of crime, this one 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:22.320 felt bizarre. 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.240 So it immediately stood out to me because obviously I 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.120 was writing crime a lot, so I knew which stop 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.040 of crime happened in what area. And this was really 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.560 a weird crime. You know, who does this? You know, 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:38.040 kill someone, leaves them in their boot, leaves the keys 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.400 in the car, and I mean this was introducedov North. 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.080 Over the next few days, the killers went back and 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:48.520 withdrew the daily maximum allowance until the card was eventually canceled. 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:52.480 And then just around the corner is which Eddy after 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.840 they killed him, they came here and they bought meat 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:58.480 from this place to have a party. 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:02.359 LaRue used him share to pick something up from Marcel. 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:06.160 Luru bought some Houdis for im and his sister a 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:10.240 disk shop. Yah, And that's all of Skullfield's money. 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:16.440 This was epd's biggest score, only providing them with about 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:21.040 sixteen thousand, six hundred rand, still only about eight hundred 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:25.400 and seventy five US dollars, all going directly to Cecilia. 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.280 This would be their pattern moving forward. The ease and 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:33.480 immediacy of it appealed to Cecilia. Two would hold the 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.400 victim at gunpoint, while others would go to the ATM 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.760 and drain their accounts. Then their victim would be killed, 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:45.640 their body disappeared, human lives disposed of with barely his 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:51.120 second thought. Luckily, for the people of Krugersdorp, money leaves 0:16:51.160 --> 0:17:04.040 a trail. On May twenty sixth, about two weeks after 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:07.439 Schofield's life was taken, the body of a young man, 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:12.160 Kevin McAlpine, was discovered in one of Kruegersdorp's most dangerous neighborhoods. 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:17.720 Kevin was also a financial advisor. Only twenty nine years old, 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:22.919 he'd recently celebrated his first wedding anniversary. His wife, Keziah, 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:27.320 was seven months pregnant. Kevin had been actively looking for 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.679 a new job as well, making a career change before 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:34.399 becoming a father. He promised Kezia that this would be 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:37.520 his last appointment for a while. They couldn't say no 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:41.240 to a potential client. Here's Christell again. 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:46.520 McAlpine wasn't supposed to attend the appointment that first found 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:50.639 another broker, but he's not working in that business anymore. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.400 But he has a friend that would appreciate their business, 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.760 and he then, not knowing, is sending someone else to 0:17:56.800 --> 0:18:00.760 his death, passed the appointment on to Mac Alpine. 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:06.000 Unfortunately, he crossed paths with Queen Havoc's band of wayward huntsman. 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:10.080 When Kevin was murdered, that was the turning point, the 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:11.080 first turning point. 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.000 Meritzka was called to the scene that night as well. 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:20.879 It's eleven o'clock at night. I'm sleeping. My phone rings. 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:24.439 My contact says, hey, pop up, Stone up ons it alike, 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.920 So that roughly translates to hey, girl, get up, we've 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:28.520 got a body. 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.800 She makes her way there. A large crowd surrounds Kevin's 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:33.520 open trunk. 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:36.600 So now I think to myself, oh fucking know. Now 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:39.800 I'm gonna get you chased off the scene, because usually 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:43.200 that's what happens, you know, the family they don't want 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:44.120 the journalist day. 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:46.520 But then she's approached by someone. 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:49.600 So now this man comes. He isn't tears, and he 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.840 says to me, Marisco, thank goodness you are here. Now 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.639 I'm like, how does this man know my name? And 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:58.680 he grabs me and he's crying, and he says, it's 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.000 Kevin in the boots, even in the boot. 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.600 Confused but present, Maritska tries to make sense of this. 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:08.120 Okay, now I know the victim's name. But it still 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:11.080 didn't add up. And then he said, what will you 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.080 are Nates say about that? So you are Nita Skeavin's mother, 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:16.679 I swear to you, know, like they say when it 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.000 feels like a brick walls fall on you. It was 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:22.320 that moment because then I realized that I knew that 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.080 person in that boot, you know, like it was the 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:26.760 most bizarre feeling in the world. 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:31.240 Maritzka is a well known journalist who, like Yanna and Ben, 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.160 wrote a book on the Kruger Store of Killings. It's 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:37.920 called Outcast. Over the course of her reporting, she became 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:41.880 a close confidant to LaRue more on that soon. She's 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:45.560 a warm presence. She has an infectious laugh and vibrant energy, 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:48.880 and this spade of murders had become personal for her, 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:50.760 too close for comfort. 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.479 You get so used to writing about people you don't know, 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:57.879 writing nice stories, sad stories you know, but you don't 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:01.920 often get to write about you old mother's base friends. Son. 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:09.959 Epd's next victim was discovered four days later, on May thirtieth, 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:15.680 twenty sixteen, a woman, this time breaking epd'sm just slightly. 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:18.679 The next murder was Hanley Lauterogan. 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:22.679 Mirinda had made an appointment with Hanley Lattigan for three PM, 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:26.600 claiming she was looking to purchase a new home and 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:29.880 she had one favor to ask, though Mirinda said her 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.439 car was in the shop and asked Hanley if she 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:34.400 could swing by and pick her up on the way 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:39.520 to the house. The morning of May thirty first, twenty sixteen, 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:44.159 was the last time Hanley's husband saw her alive. She 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:49.119 was fifty two years old. Ritzka didn't know Honley personally, 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:51.720 but Kevin McAlpine's sister did. 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:55.000 I remember the night when she went missing. Kavin's sister 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:59.560 actually sent me a message on ficebook saying, Marisco, look 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:02.200 what's going on on? You must help them. It's busy 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:03.080 happening again. 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:08.000 While Mirinda held Honley lot again at gunpoint, Honley had 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:11.200 cleverly managed to transfer the large sum to her husband, 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:15.160 knowing this would trigger an alert on his phone, which 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:19.440 it did. Soon after, the husband also received a phone 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:22.720 call from Honley's colleague wondering why she hadn't shown up 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:25.240 at the house she was supposed to be showing to Mirinda. 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:28.960 Her husband made a frantic call to authorities, and a 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:34.440 search party began. Tragically, it was too late for Honley. 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:36.800 School to them. That was on the way to school 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:39.280 founded the next morning next to the right. 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:44.960 I must admit it's a bit nauseating to tick through 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:48.919 these murders so quickly. The weight of these tragic events 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:52.159 is not lost on us. Our aim here is to 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:56.480 avoid walking you through too much more brutality and refocus 0:21:56.520 --> 0:21:58.720 our lens on the light at the end of the tunnel. 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:05.959 This is not Kruguzdop police area. This is the Antantine 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:09.919 policing area. So they will open the kaise yeah, and 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:11.960 the cases will not be linked to Kruguzdolt. 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:17.200 Hanley's body was found dumped in Randfontein. That's another interesting 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:21.880 break in epd's pattern. Randfontaine is the next town over 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:26.880 from Krugersdorp, but technically falls in another district covered by 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:30.800 another police force. Sicili and Morinda were now fully relying 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:34.360 on sloppy police work and their inside connections to get 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:40.840 away with literal murder. But the day after Hanley's murder 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:45.440 June one, twenty sixteen, Brigadier Many Victor walked into the 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:51.760 krugersdor police station. Three rapid fire murders had taken place, 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:56.920 and the citizens of Krugersdorp were outraged. Brigadier Many Victor 0:22:57.080 --> 0:22:59.840 was already a veteran officer by then and was no 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:03.439 for his work in intelligence. We spoke with him on 0:23:03.480 --> 0:23:04.719 the ground in South Africa. 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:10.200 There was a huge outcry in the Kyugozstal community, people 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:14.520 thinking this a serial murderer on the loose. People were 0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:18.560 marching to the police station and they were demanding actions 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:23.560 and so forth. So the day after the third murder, 0:23:23.960 --> 0:23:28.560 which was Hardy lot I, walked into the Kyugozstal police station. 0:23:28.920 --> 0:23:33.399 Brigadier Victor immediately began assembling a task team of highly 0:23:33.400 --> 0:23:38.320 skilled investigators to help crack this high priority case. The 0:23:38.359 --> 0:23:41.880 members of this task force referred to their operation as 0:23:41.920 --> 0:23:45.600 the war room. This term implied to the public that 0:23:45.680 --> 0:23:49.679 they were taking the situation seriously, treating the investigation with 0:23:49.720 --> 0:23:52.080 the urgency and the severity it deserved. 0:23:53.200 --> 0:23:55.639 When Moni came on board at that point, he was 0:23:55.760 --> 0:23:58.600 the head of our crime intelligence and I mean they 0:23:58.640 --> 0:24:01.280 were slacking and he had to war room. We all 0:24:01.440 --> 0:24:04.240 different disciplines within the police came together and that's where 0:24:04.280 --> 0:24:06.440 it actually realized, Okay, you know what, you have something, 0:24:06.480 --> 0:24:09.840 I have something. I think to some things all connected 0:24:09.880 --> 0:24:10.720 in some way. 0:24:11.720 --> 0:24:14.920 Besides the obvious proximity of the murders and the signature 0:24:14.960 --> 0:24:18.720 methods of kill and disposal, the Brigadier immediately noticed a 0:24:18.760 --> 0:24:21.680 common trait among the latest victims of the kruger Storp 0:24:21.760 --> 0:24:22.480 serial killings. 0:24:22.680 --> 0:24:26.760 All of them were financial bocus. So the three murders 0:24:26.760 --> 0:24:30.800 were linked in the Saints so that the target was 0:24:31.040 --> 0:24:35.719 people that I used to working after. I was meeting 0:24:35.800 --> 0:24:40.199 people and strange places, taking them to have discussions or 0:24:40.200 --> 0:24:42.119 to cl so, whatever the case may be. 0:24:42.720 --> 0:24:46.800 This made them perfect marks for EPD, just like you 0:24:46.880 --> 0:24:50.000 were me. They were simply earning their scratch, making a living, 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:54.480 not knowing that they were scheduling appointments for their own demise. 0:24:55.600 --> 0:24:59.000 The day Hanley went missing, her husband had alerted more 0:24:59.080 --> 0:25:01.680 than just the police, He had the full support of 0:25:01.720 --> 0:25:06.439 the local community. Here is Detective Vinen Vinter, who worked 0:25:06.480 --> 0:25:08.040 within the Ranfontein district. 0:25:08.240 --> 0:25:12.439 The night Honorly disappeared, I got a phone call from 0:25:12.680 --> 0:25:16.159 a missing persons organization by the name of Pink Ladies. 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:20.960 We then liaised with Brigadier Mooni and the following morning 0:25:21.480 --> 0:25:25.639 we got a message that a body was found in 0:25:25.720 --> 0:25:26.840 the Renfuntin area. 0:25:28.000 --> 0:25:32.600 Detective Vinter's commander at the time was Lieutenant Colonel Eric Krueger. 0:25:34.440 --> 0:25:37.639