Die laaste klompie jare van sy lewe is gekenmerk deur ’n ongekende entoesiasme en vasberadenheid om groter lig te werp op hoëprofielmoordsake in die land. Twee sulke gevalle is die moorde op Inge Lotz en Reeva Steenkamp. In Fruit of a Poisoned Tree Altbeker writes: “There was evidence, for example, that Inge inspired interest in many of the men with whom she and Fred were friends. Her best friend, Wimpie Boschoff, testified that Marius Botha who was Fred’s flat mate, had been so in love with Inge when they first met that he had, on occasions, written her poems. Wimpie also said that Jean Minnaar, to whose flat Fred had delivered the cupboard on the evening of the murder, had been in love with Inge. Finally he also testified that Jean’s flat mate, Braam Kruger, had dated Inge…” Pistorius was found guilty by Judge Thokozile Mapisa of culpable homicide, a verdict that the state is currently appealing. The appeal will be heard next month. Everything in the book was well researched and tests were done when necessary to prove their suggested version of events. What I get is that she maybe represents, subconsciously, something more to them. She is more than just someone who has died. They are trying to find out the truth and it is almost as if they are protecting her in death,” said Brown.

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When Tongo, after his speedy arrest, confessed that the British businessman had been the mastermind behind the plot to kidnap and murder his bride, Dewani, who had been allowed by police to leave South Africa, spent years fighting his extradition to face charges in the Cape Town High Court. Dewani, now 40, returned to the UK where he has reportedly found ne w love and is in a long-term relationship with a Brazilian-born model, Gledison Lopez Martins. Inge Lotz died on 16 March 2005 inside her apartment just outside Stellenbosch, South Africa – murdered. Someone repeatedly hit her on the head with a blunt object and stabbed her with a knife. However, the Molletts’ work has subsequently received wide support in the forensic scientific community and Thomas has been invited twice to present on this case to the UCT Division of Forensic Medicine. This response, said, Thomas inspired them to look at other cases as well. Dit bevredig ons op ’n dieper vlak om aan sulke sake te werk. Die feit dat dit moordsake is, is nie noodwendig ’n bepalende dryfveer nie. Ons voel wel gemotiveer deur die bydrae wat dit moontlik tot die samelewing en geregtigheid kan lewer,” het hy aan my vertel.

Investigating the murder of Inge Lotz

Even experts around the world in various fields disagree with each other on the evidence and we are kind of brought up to believe that evidence and CSI is absolute but it isn’t. In this case these experts are arguing against each other based on the same evidence. And that’s crazy,” said Brown. In hulle soeke na geregtigheid het dié twee broers onder andere ’n boek die lig laat sien waarin hulle gehoop het om antwoorde te gee op van die tergende vrae en bespiegelings toe Oscar Pistorius sy meisie Reeva Steenkamp op Valentynsnag 14 Februarie 2013 in sy huis doodgeskiet het. Die boek se titel is Oscar vs The Truth. Thomas het in 1989 aan die Hoërskool Victoria-Wes matrikuleer. Daarna het hy sy militêre diens by 1 Spesiale Diensbataljon, Tempe, Bloemfontein verrig. Na 'n keuringsproses is hy oorgeplaas na die Pantserskool in Tempe, waar hy 'n jaar lange Junior Leierskapkursus ondergaan het om 'n troepleier vir die Eland 90-pantservoertuig-gevegsregime te word. The rest of Mollett’s talk to the forensic experts yesterday revolved around the minutiae of measurements of Lotz’s mortal wounds, the angle of camera used by the forensic photographer and the convincing possibility that the hammer was indeed the murder weapon. Albei hierdie moorde het Thomas en sy broer Calvin, as amateur-forensiese kundiges, aangespoor om dieper te delf en na antwoorde te soek.

Thomas Mollett - Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Thomas Mollett - Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. Altbeker and many others believe that Lotz was murdered, tragically like most other women in South Africa, by someone she knew intimately as she would not, being a conservative person, have worn the “skimpy” attire she was dressed in at the time of the murder if a stranger had been with her. (This of course does not take into account that Lotz could have been surprised by an intruder while watching The Stepford Wives, an ironic choice of film considering Lotz’s promise to Van der Vyver in a letter she had written earlier that day that she had wanted to be a “good wife” to him). He offered that it was difficult to explain to people “who are not creative” why he and Calvin felt compelled to so rigorously pursue the case but that the impulse “comes from a deeper place”. I have always been fascinated by the idea that we are around people all the time, in every day situations but we have no idea what their lives are really like,” says Thamm. “Nearly everyone has something extraordinary about them, a story that would make you think ‘I’d never had known that just to look at them’. We’ve uncovered some of those stories.” The police also found an ornamental hammer in Fred’s vehicle which could have inflicted the wounds on her head. Justice DeniedWe believe, however, that a retrial should be considered and granted,” the brothers conclude their book. During our first communication I miscommunicated to Mollett that Shan’ann’s corpse was recovered after only 48 hours, which I guessed wasn’t enough time to reflect the high alcohol levels found. This was an initial error on my part; it took closer to 70 hours for Shan’ann’s corpse to be discovered and exhumed. What really happened on that Valentine’s evening of 13 February 2013 when Reeva Steenkamp was shot and killed in the toilet of Oscar Pistorius’ house? Did Oscar know that Reeva was behind the toilet door? Or did Oscar truly believe that an intruder was hiding behind that door?

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Anni Dewani’s sister Ami Denborg, brother Anish Hindocha,and father, Vinod Hindoch leave the Western Cape High Court during Shrien Dewani’s murder trial on December 8, 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo: Gallo Images / Foto24 / Bertram Malgas) the time the body is exposed to the elements [here time of death is a factor, unknown in this case, but with a relatively short window either way]

Melissa on NEWSFLASH: Sandy Rzucek was not given access to the audio recording, wanted to clear Shan'ann's name ASAP Whoever did this to Lotz, we must bear in mind, is still free, and it is this that drives Mollett, as well as those (like Klatzow) who continue to believe Fred van der Vyver was falsely accused and that the real killer is yet to be apprehended. When mentioned at trial, Carice Stander – a close friend of Pistorius – claimed they were used to stem the flow of blood, despite minimal blood being shown in images of the seen. Think of us in terms of your daily cappuccino from your favourite coffee shop. It costs around R35. That’s R1,050 per month on frothy milk. Until now the talk had been very detached, scientific, unemotional. We were, after all, in a building that probably housed cadavers somewhere close and most of us in the audience had had professional experience with crime and violence.