The Nasrec Serial Killer
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He wasn't a stranger who jumped out of the dark. He was the taxi driver who took them to work every morning, for weeks, sometimes months, until the afternoon he turned off the route.
Between 1995 and 1998, fourteen women and girls and two men were found in the veld and along the highways around Nasrec, Johannesburg.
Lazarus Tshidiso Mazingane was eventually convicted of 74 charges: 16 murders, 22 rapes, 20 aggravated robberies, and sentenced to 17 life terms plus 781 years. Most South Africans have never heard of him.
We get into the method, the profile that described him before anyone could name him, Piet Byleveld's interrogation, and a parole system that keeps having to consider him. We say all sixteen names, including the one nobody has ever known.
⚠️ Listener discretion advised: This episode deals with rape, murder, domestic violence
