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Moses Sithole, South Africa’s worst serial killer, kills 25th victim

A photograph showing Johannesburg, South Africa, at sunset
Image: Shutterstock.com | Above: A photograph showing Johannesburg, South Africa, at sunset

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After his previous arrest and trial for rape in 1987, Moses Sithole changed his modus operandi and became a murderer.

He often covered the corpses of his victims in petrol to make both identification difficult and the gathering of forensics impossible.

But his trail of destruction left its own indicators and soon the predator Moses Sithole would meet his match thanks partly to an FBI profiler...