← Profiler: True Crime Africa
Kempton Park Serial Killer? | Five Bodies. One Killer? artwork

Kempton Park Serial Killer? | Five Bodies. One Killer?

Profiler: True Crime Africa
48:43
Play episode

Show notes

Kempton Park Serial Killer? | Five Bodies. One Killer? Five women's bodies have been discovered over roughly two months, with the first four recoveries concentrated around Kempton Park and Rhodesfield and a fifth case reported in Olifantsfontein. Paul Llewellyn and former head of SAPS Investigative Psychology Dr Gérard Labuschagne examine whether some of the deaths could be connected — and what investigators need to establish before separate murders can be classified as serial murder. Gérard explains geographic profiling, victimology, forensic and behavioural case linkage, offender signature, body recovery zones and how a specialist task team approaches a possible murder series. Based only on information currently available publicly, he also gives his assessment of the likelihood that at least some of the bodies will ultimately be linked to the same suspect. A single common offender has not been established. The investigation remains ongoing. profilerafricainfo@gmail.com

More from this show

More
  1. The Ballito Bomber: We Warned About This | Jacqueline Herbst

    Weeks before the attack on a six-year-old girl at a school in Umhlali, Profiler Africa examined a teenage suspect linked to an alleged bomb plot at Ballito Junction shopping mall.…

    01:02:12
  2. 45 Mass Killings: What’s Driving South Africa’s Violence? | Julian Rademeyer

    South Africa has recorded 45 mass-killing attacks in 2026, involving at least 210 deaths and 79 wounded. Paul Llewellyn and Dr Gérard Labuschagne are joined by investigative journa…

    01:27:03
  3. KEMPTON PARK SERIAL KILLER? How Police Decide If Cases Are Linked | Elmarie Myburgh

    Are the Kempton Park killings linked — and how would investigators actually establish that? Lt Col (Ret) Elmarie Myburgh brings around four decades of policing experience, includin…

    01:20:14
  4. KEMPTON PARK SERIAL KILLER? Your Questions Answered

    After more than 100,000 people watched Profiler Africa's first Kempton Park investigation, viewers sent us their questions. Former SAPS criminal profiler Dr Gérard Labuschagne retu…

    01:05:13
  5. The Knysna Murders: Did They Get the Right Man?

    In 2005, Jessica Wheeler and Victoria Stadler were murdered less than a month apart in Knysna. The crime scenes appeared very different. But investigators began to suspect that the…

    01:15:42
  6. Inside the FBI’s Year-Long Profiler Training at Quantico | Carlo Schippers

    What was it actually like to train as a criminal profiler at the FBI Academy at Quantico when profiling was still an emerging discipline? In 1990, Amsterdam homicide detective Carl…

    01:20:11
Now Playing