The Unsolved Murder of Anika Smit
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⚠️ This episode contains descriptions of the rape and murder of a minor, and crime scene detail. Please take care while listening.
She was seventeen, home sick with an ear infection, alone in the house for a few hours on an ordinary Wednesday. By the time her father got home that evening, everything about that day had changed.
This week we're covering the unsolved murder of Anika Smit: a locked gate that came open, a scream nobody could place until it was too late, a school desk with a confession carved into it three years before anyone confessed to anything, a satanism rumour that took over a courtroom, and an investigation that stalled when its own lead detective got pulled onto the Oscar Pistorius case.
Five people have been named persons of interest over the years, including both of Anika's parents. Fifteen years on, nobody has ever been convicted.
