Case 213: The Noordhoek 'Ripper Rapists'

*** Content warnings: Sexual assault, racism ***After college student Alice Sebold was violently raped in 1981, a 21-year-old man named Tony Broadwater was promptly arrested and subsequently convicted of the crime. Alice later wrote a powerful memoir about her ordeal, called Luck ...  Show more

In 2000, the Wallace family is shattered when patriarch Michael dies of apparent heart disease. Years later, his widow Stacey remarries David Castor. Tragedy strikes again when David is found dead in a pool of his own vomit, apparently the result of suicide. But as inconsistencie ...  Show more

Every country has their infamous criminals, and Gert van Rooyen and Joey Haarhoff was South Africa's first serial killer couple. Active in both Pretoria and Johannesburg during the late 1980’s, their crimes shocked the nation, leaving deep scars on the collective psyche of an ent ...  Show more

A prominent businesswoman is found murdered in post-Apartheid South Africa — was it a robbery gone wrong or something far darker rooted in betrayal, racism, and a daughter’s desperate revenge? Sponsor: ⁠shopify.com/casual⁠ - start your $1 per month trial period today Learn more a ...  Show more

Women in southwest London lived in terror after a string of sex attacks on lone commuters travelling from Waterloo to Kingston. The police were desperately trying to locate a man believed to be responsible for half a dozen rapes over a three-month period in late 1988. Just days b ...  Show more

A college co-ed was abducted from a parking lot. Her body was found later that day. She'd been sexually assaulted and shot at point blank range. Eight years passed and then a pair of shoes and a cell phone breathed new life into a cold case.To learn more about how HLN protects li ...  Show more