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South Africa’s worst serial killer stands trial for 38 murders

A photograph of Johannesburg, South Africa
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Moses Sithole was in hospital only the day before, after being shot resisting arrest but the police commissioner was desperate to prosecute saying, “We can move the court to his hospital bed if necessary”.

Moses preyed upon women desperate for work. Offering false promises of employment, he would lure his victims away from witnesses and then gag and tie them. After raping them, he would use their underwear to strangle them.

He would then burn their bodies to destroy forensics...