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A Crime Most Queer explores crimes committed by or against members of the Queer community. Nj Hourquebie delves into true stories of murder, assault, victimisation and hate crimes involving LGBTQ people, mainly in but not limited to South Africa. With each episode, he looks into the backgrounds of each of the players, how their paths crossed so tragically, and what makes these cases “queer”, as in both relating to their LGBTQ connections and the twists and kinks that make them particularly b ...
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S03E02 | The Kansas City Butcher | The Life & Crimes of Bob Berdella
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For 17 years, Bob Berdella convinced his neighbours that he was a bit of an oddball, but mostly harmless. Others, however, mostly the rejects and reprobates of society, knew better. When a naked man, wearing only a dog collar, flees from his house in April 1988, he reveals a story beyond imagining, a story of kidnapping, sexual sadism, and murder. …
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S03E01 | Motive: Unknown | The Murder of Bruno Bronn
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On February 7th, 2012, nightclub owner, Bruno Bronn was discovered strangled to death in his Cape Town home. All of Bruno's friends knew exactly who did it and the police quickly arrested him and three of his associates but the story he spun told a very different story. Was he himself a victim of vicious, violent thugs or was he a cold-blooded kill…
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S02E04 | Meth, Mayhem and Murder | The Bludgeoning of Prof Carl Mischke
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On April 15th, 2013, Prof Carl Mischke was found beaten to death and face down in his blood-soaked bed. He was the ninth in a spate of murders of gay men in and around Johannesburg, South Africa but was his killing really the work of a serial killer or was his murderer actually someone closer to home? RECOMMENDATIONS Murder by Invitation – Charl Bl…
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S02E03 | Upstairs Horror in Downtown New Orleans | The Arson of the UpStairs Lounge (Part III)
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When gay New Orleanians headed out to the UpStairs Lounge in the French Quarter on Sunday, June 24th, 1973, they had no idea that many of them would never be returning home. A fire started in the main stairwell leading up to the bar quickly spread, as patrons desperately tried to escape the burning building. Until the Pulse Nightclub Massacre in 20…
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S02E02 | Upstairs Horror in Downtown New Orleans | The Arson of the UpStairs Lounge (Part II)
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When gay New Orleanians headed out to the UpStairs Lounge in the French Quarter on Sunday, June 24th, 1973, they had no idea that many of them would never be returning home. A fire started in the main stairwell leading up to the bar quickly spread, as patrons desperately tried to escape the burning building. Until the Pulse Nightclub Massacre in 20…
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S02E01 | Upstairs Horror in Downtown New Orleans | The Arson of the UpStairs Lounge (Part I)
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When gay New Orleanians headed out to the UpStairs Lounge in the French Quarter on Sunday, June 24th, 1973, they had no idea that many of them would never be returning home. A fire started in the main stairwell leading up to the bar quickly spread, as patrons desperately tried to escape the burning building. Until the Pulse Nightclub Massacre in 20…
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S01E16 | Murder in Mooinooi | The Violation of Joey & Anisha van Niekerk
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When Joey and Anisha van Niekerk didn’t arrive in Pretoria for Joey’s father’s funeral on December 11th, 2017, their families knew something was wrong and drove to the women’s farm in Mooinooi, in North West Province. They found the farm untouched but, when they encountered Koos Strydom, who rented a workshop from the couple, his story didn’t quite…
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S01E15 | Bloody Valentine | The Shooting of Larry King (Part II)
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On February 12th, 2008, Larry King was shot twice in the back of the head by Brandon McInerney, a fellow student in his English class, all because Larry had made the fatal error of asking Brandon to be his Valentine and many blamed the school for failing to protect the perpetrator from his victim (no, you read that correctly). In Part 2, we explore…
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S01E14 | Bloody Valentine | The Shooting of Larry King (Part I)
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On February 12th, 2008, Larry King was shot twice in the back of the head by Brandon McInerney, a fellow student in his English class, all because Larry had made the fatal error of asking Brandon to be his Valentine and many blamed the school for failing to protect the perpetrator from his victim (no, you read that correctly). In Part 1, we meet La…
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S01E13 | Making a Man | The Torture of Raymond Buys
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When 15-year-old Raymond Buys was enrolled in the Echo Wild Game Rangers camp, nobody would have guessed that, less than 4 months later, he would be dead. The owner of the camp, Alex de Koker, and his assistant, Michael Erasmus, were arrested and charged with murder, child abuse, and assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, but what came …
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S01E12 | Gay Panic in South Africa (Part III) | The Assault of Sduduzo Buthelezi (feat. Roché Kester - OUT)
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In 2017, Sduduzo Buthelezi was killed by Nkosinathi Madlala, a graphic designer he had hired to create car stickers for his business. When the case went to court, the sentence he received sent shockwaves around the country and the world. In a new segment, Nj speaks to Roché Kester, the Hate Crimes Manager at Out LGBT Well-Being in Pretoria on the p…
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S01E11 | Justice Undermined | The Early Parole of Adam Woest (Sizzlers Follow-up)
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On April 11th, 2004, Adam Woest and Trevor Theys were sentenced to life imprisonment nine times over for murder for the killing of nine men in a house in Sea Point, Cape Town and 20 years for the attempted murder of the sole survivor. Trevor Theys died in 2009 but now, Adam Woest is being considered for early parole. Leigh Visser, the sister of War…
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S01E10 | Gay Panic in South Africa (Part II) | The Bashing of Dr Louis Heyns (feat. Nicole Engelbrecht - TCSA)
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On May 22nd, 2013, Dr Louis Heyns disappeared while driving the 50km route between his and his brother's home. According to his family, he had to have been hijacked because it made no sense from him to have been where his body was discovered: A notorious gay cruising spot in Strand, 5km out of his way. His killers insisted that he had approached th…
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S01E09 | Gay Panic in South Africa (Part I) | The Death of Nhlanhla Gasa
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On March 26th, 2013, the body of Nhlanhla Gasa, a politically-connected millionaire businessman, was spotted floating in the Tugela River on KwaZulu Natal's north coast, and, not far away, his burnt-out Jaguar was discovered. Why had he been stabbed 12 times and his body dumped in a river? He had lived a colourful life. Had his past finally caught …
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S01E08 | The Portsmouth Defence | The Killing of Le Roux Theunissen (Part II)
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Just days after an emotional reconciliation between father and son on national television, 21-year-old Le Roux Theunissen was found strangled to death in his home. The prime suspect is his landlord's (straight) sex buddy, but why? In Part 2, we dive into the investigation, trial and conviction of Le Roux's killer, as we sort the lies from the truth…
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S01E07 | The Portsmouth Defence | The Killing of Le Roux Theunissen (Part I)
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Just days after an emotional reconciliation between father and son on national television, 21-year-old Le Roux Theunissen was found strangled to death in his home. The prime suspect is his landlord's (straight) sex buddy, but why? In Part 1, we look at how the people involved in the tragedy came to know each other and what actually happened on that…
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S01E06 | Slaughter on the Seaboard | The Sizzlers Massacre (Part V)
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On January 20th, 2003, two men entered Sizzlers, a gay massage parlour in Sea Point, Cape Town and tortured 10 men before slitting their throats, shooting them in the head and leaving them for dead. In Part 5 of this five-part serial, we look into the conspiracy of the Third Man and look into the likelihood of it being a man who has cropped up regu…
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S01E05 | Slaughter on the Seaboard | The Sizzlers Massacre (Part IV)
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On January 20th, 2003, two men entered Sizzlers, a gay massage parlour in Sea Point, Cape Town and tortured 10 men before slitting their throats, shooting them in the head and leaving them for dead. In Part 4 of this five-part serial, we follow Adam and Trevor's trial as they face the charges brought against them and the families of their victims. …
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S01E04 | Slaughter on the Seaboard | The Sizzlers Massacre (Part III)
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On January 20th, 2003, two men entered Sizzlers, a gay massage parlour in Sea Point, Cape Town and tortured 10 men before slitting their throats, shooting them in the head and leaving them for dead. In Part 3 of this five-part serial, we follow Adam and Trevor as they make their getaway, and we get an eyewitness perspective of what transpired in th…
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S01E03 | Slaughter on the Seaboard | The Sizzlers Massacre (Part II)
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On January 20th, 2003, two men entered Sizzlers, a gay massage parlour in Sea Point, Cape Town and tortured 10 men before slitting their throats, shooting them in the head and leaving them for dead. In Part 2 of this five-part serial, we run through the days and weeks leading up to that fateful night and we explore what actually went down at 7 Grah…
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S01E02 | Slaughter on the Seaboard | The Sizzlers Massacre (Part I)
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On January 20th, 2003, two men entered Sizzlers, a gay massage parlour in Sea Point, Cape Town and tortured 10 men before slitting their throats, shooting them in the head and leaving them for dead. In Part 1 of this five-part serial, we look at the immediate aftermath, the rumours and red herrings that police had to follow up on in their investiga…
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S01E01 | Deadly Friends | The Murder of Annicke Thofte and Danie Robbertze
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On 27th May 2008, Annicke Thofte and Danie Robbertze were found murdered in their flat in Durban, South Africa. Both had been shot in the head. What made matters worse was that their killer was known to them. That fateful Monday night, they had invited Gordon van Niekerk into their home, as they had done many times before, but what they didn’t know…
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