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Anne-Marie Engelbrecht

Episode number: 1

Overview: Anne-Marie Engelbrecht begged several times for protection from her violent husband, but was sent from port to starboard. Finally, she takes matters into her own hands.

Tanya Flowerday

Episode number: 2

Overview: Tanya Flowerday's bright future was shattered when she met drug addict Ronald Grimsley. Her murder is described to this day as one of the most brutal in South Africa's history.

Karl Greyvenstein

Episode number: 3

Overview: When Karl Greyvenstein's parents and brother are shot dead in their beds, all evidence points to him. Karl is indeed described by acquaintances as a pathological liar and this complicates the investigation.

Ralf Krebs

Episode number: 4

Overview: With marital discord, violence, sex and betrayal, the murder of Ralf Krebs in the late 1980s plays out like an episode of a soap opera in South Africa.

André Klynsmith

Episode number: 5

Overview: After the murder of André Klynsmith, it is difficult to distinguish the truth from the lies. Hanna Henning, André's partner, as well as her son and his girlfriend, are all dragged into the murder case.

Stasiemaniak

Episode number: 6

Overview: Ever heard of the "station maniac"? In the late 80s and early 90s, a string of young boys disappeared in the Mitchells Plain area. Then the beloved teacher Norman Simons was arrested for the murder of one of the boys.

Shawn Lategan & Maritza van der Merwe

Episode number: 7

Overview: The unfairness of life is rarely as clear as when two innocent young people, Shawn Lategan and Maritza van der Merwe, are inhumanely and brutally murdered.

Unita Green

Episode number: 8

Overview: A story of obsessive love, poisoning and body violation takes place in the Zeerust area when Unita Green kills her male friend with rat poison. But there's always two sides to a story.

Flower Gang

Episode number: 9

Overview: A horrific farm attack by the so-called "Flower Gang" ruins the lives of three friends and a 4-year-old toddler.

Phindile Ntshongwana

Episode number: 10

Overview: He is described as a good guy and a Christian, but when ex-Bluebull Phindile Ntshongwana is arrested for a series of gruesome axe murders, everyone is totally shocked by his actions.

Daniël Botha

Episode number: 11

Overview: "Life has become cheap." These are the words that the judge uttered in the court case after Daniël Botha was beaten to death and kicked in a nightclub in Benoni in 2018 after an altercation got out of hand.

Ria Wolmarans

Episode number: 12

Overview: In the mid-90s in Botswana, Ria Wolmarans is murdered. At first, a burglary is suspected, but when Mariëtte Bosch is arrested months later, and Ria's husband also marries Mariëtte, the case turns into what is internationally described as a circus. Mariëtte Wolmarans becomes the first white woman to be executed under bizarre circumstances in Botswana.

Die Skroewedraaier Maniak

Episode number: 13

Overview: In the 1970s, William van der Merwe - known as The Screwdriver Maniac - wreaks havoc in South Africa. He rapes 9 women over a very short period of time after threatening them with a screwdriver. After many years behind bars, he is declared "sane" and released. But William's campaign of destruction was far from over.