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Alina

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3333 total appearances

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Morbid
Episode 656: The Attempted Murder of Alison Botha

Exactly.

Morbid
Episode 656: The Attempted Murder of Alison Botha

Because it's like, that's not attempt. That's not like, oops, I didn't do it right. No, they did it right. Allison's just stronger than that. She's just an anomaly. It's like, they did it. They overdid it. In fact, they overkilled her. They did. And for them to not consider that, like, there needed to be some kind of break from precedence. Yeah. Where they sat there and said, this is murder.

Morbid
Episode 656: The Attempted Murder of Alison Botha

Because it's like, that's not attempt. That's not like, oops, I didn't do it right. No, they did it right. Allison's just stronger than that. She's just an anomaly. It's like, they did it. They overdid it. In fact, they overkilled her. They did. And for them to not consider that, like, there needed to be some kind of break from precedence. Yeah. Where they sat there and said, this is murder.

Morbid
Episode 656: The Attempted Murder of Alison Botha

Because this case itself is a break from precedence.

Morbid
Episode 656: The Attempted Murder of Alison Botha

Because this case itself is a break from precedence.

Morbid
Episode 656: The Attempted Murder of Alison Botha

Just because she survived it doesn't mean that this is not murder. Yup. Let's be real here. It drives me fucking nuts.

Morbid
Episode 656: The Attempted Murder of Alison Botha

Just because she survived it doesn't mean that this is not murder. Yup. Let's be real here. It drives me fucking nuts.

Morbid
Episode 656: The Attempted Murder of Alison Botha

It has always pissed me all the way off.

Morbid
Episode 656: The Attempted Murder of Alison Botha

It has always pissed me all the way off.

Morbid
Episode 656: The Attempted Murder of Alison Botha

Attempted murder drives me nuts to begin with, but when it's this flagrant, it's a whole other level. There needs to be a different precedent. There just needs to be.

Morbid
Episode 656: The Attempted Murder of Alison Botha

Attempted murder drives me nuts to begin with, but when it's this flagrant, it's a whole other level. There needs to be a different precedent. There just needs to be.

Morbid
Episode 656: The Attempted Murder of Alison Botha

There absolutely does. Because this makes me so angry. Yeah. Fuck. So she's in the hospital. She's reading updates in the papers. And she was surprised by how, quote, disheveled and terrified they both looked in the photographs. Because when they were around her, they were acting completely normal. But now they look like shit. I was like, you're not scared. You're scared you got caught. No.

Morbid
Episode 656: The Attempted Murder of Alison Botha

There absolutely does. Because this makes me so angry. Yeah. Fuck. So she's in the hospital. She's reading updates in the papers. And she was surprised by how, quote, disheveled and terrified they both looked in the photographs. Because when they were around her, they were acting completely normal. But now they look like shit. I was like, you're not scared. You're scared you got caught. No.

Morbid
Episode 656: The Attempted Murder of Alison Botha

The press had dubbed the pair the Nordhoek Rippers, which is like, don't give them a nickname. And of course, there was reports that they claimed to be Satanists. To Allison, the claims of Satanism seemed like a ploy to lessen the severity of what they had done. Like they weren't acting of their own free will when they very much were.

Morbid
Episode 656: The Attempted Murder of Alison Botha

The press had dubbed the pair the Nordhoek Rippers, which is like, don't give them a nickname. And of course, there was reports that they claimed to be Satanists. To Allison, the claims of Satanism seemed like a ploy to lessen the severity of what they had done. Like they weren't acting of their own free will when they very much were.

Morbid
Episode 656: The Attempted Murder of Alison Botha

I am 100% with her on that. Yeah. 100%.

Morbid
Episode 656: The Attempted Murder of Alison Botha

I am 100% with her on that. Yeah. 100%.

Morbid
Episode 656: The Attempted Murder of Alison Botha

Now, if friends and tions had hoped to influence the court with their claims of Satan's influence, only the press seemed interested in their religious or spiritual beliefs. The judge and the prosecutor couldn't give less of a shit. They had no interest in their beliefs and remained focused on the cruelty and the utter brutality of their crimes.

Morbid
Episode 656: The Attempted Murder of Alison Botha

Now, if friends and tions had hoped to influence the court with their claims of Satan's influence, only the press seemed interested in their religious or spiritual beliefs. The judge and the prosecutor couldn't give less of a shit. They had no interest in their beliefs and remained focused on the cruelty and the utter brutality of their crimes.

Morbid
Episode 656: The Attempted Murder of Alison Botha

After multiple days, the two finally went before the court, where they pleaded guilty to eight charges, including kidnapping, rape, and attempted murder. Okay. During all of this, Allison learned various things about her attackers from the papers. Franz, she learned, was the son of a police officer, which naturally came as a surprise to her. Wow. The son of a police officer.