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Ex-FBI Ressler starts profiling South Africa’s worst serial killer

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The South African police were at a loss as to how to explain why women were still being abducted by the serial killer when the killings had received country wide media coverage.

With few forensics, they called in an ex-FBI man, profiler Robert Ressler. His depiction of Moses Sithole was accurate apart from the suggestion that he drove a car. The killer was not offering women lifts but work.

It was the offer of employment that made the poverty stricken women walk down empty lanes...