Profiler: True Crime Africa

30 Years of Darkness: Lt Col (Ret.) Elmarie Myburgh on the Frontlines of Serial Crime

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Profiler Africa, Paul Llewellyn and Professor Gérard Labuschagne are joined by Gerard's former colleague and SAPS legend, Lt C...

When the Dead Have No Name | Victim Identification & Forensic Truth | Profiler Africa

25 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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How to Spot a Serial Killer? | And other Questions You Always Wanted to Ask a Profiler

17 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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The Case of the Missing Crime Shows

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past few months, several of our documentaries temporarily disappeared from this channel.That wasn’t an algorithm issue.It was the result of...

Griekwastad | A Family Murder That Still Haunts South Africa | Profiler Africa

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Profiler Africa, hosts Paul Llewellyn and Gérard Labuschagne unpack one of the most disturbing family murder cases in South African hist...

Memory on Trial | When Recovered Memories Decide Guilt | Profiler Africa

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when a criminal case is built not on physical evidence — but on memory?In this episode of Profiler Africa, co-hosts Paul Llewellyn and ...

WHEN RAGE BECOMES MURDER | The Daniel Smit Case

31 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In 2022, a 13-year-old boy was murdered in Klawer after stealing fruit from a garden.The man responsible, Daniel Hugo Smit, chased the child in his ve...

Brighton Beach Axe Murders | Profiling Joseph Ntshongwana

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Durban, March 2011.Four men murdered in eight days — two decapitated. All strangers. All ambushed and hacked to death with an axe.The killer: Joseph...

POISON IN ELDOS | The Teacher, The Rattex & 46? Days of Lies | Profiler Africa

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we break down the case of Annerize LeoniceSmith, who poisoned her partner Russell Kriel, a respected teacherand rugby mentor, and hid his d...

PREDATOR | Inside South Africa’s Most Disturbing Child-Exploitation Case

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For over a decade, Gerhard Ackerman operated in plain sight — grooming, abusing, and trafficking young boys under the guise of mentorship and massag...

Inside Forensic Pathology with Dr Candice Hansmeyer | Life, Death & the Truth Behind the Table

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Candice Hansmeyer has spent her career speaking for the dead — first in South Africa’s chaotic mortuaries, now in Canada’s pristine labs.In t...

Kidnap for Ransom in Africa: Inside the World of Real Hostage Negotiators | Profiler Africa

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

People disappear every day — but what happens when someone is kidnapped for ransom?This week on Profiler Africa, forensic psychologist Gerard Labusc...

The Masoyi Serial Killer: Buried on His Own Property | Profiler Africa

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Between 2017 and 2019, five women vanished in Masoyi, Mpumalanga. Their bodies were later found buried on the killer’s own property — a chilling s...

Brian Harvey: South Africa’s Serial Stalker | Profiler Africa

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Profiler Africa, Paul and Gerard Labuschagne unpack one of the strangest and most misunderstood areas in forensic psychology: autoerotic ...

Autoerotic Fatality Explained | Profiler Africa with Gerard Labuschagne

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Profiler Africa, Paul and Gerard Labuschagne unpack one of the strangest and most misunderstood areas in forensic psychology: autoerotic ...

Inside the Mind of the Lone Actor: with New Zealand's Top Profiler

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Profiler Africa, Paul and Gerard Labuschagne are joined by Dr Nathan Brooks, a forensic psychologist and senior lecturer recognised inter...

The Pretoria Railway Killer: Satan, DNA & Serial Murder

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Profiler Africa, South Africa's leading forensic psychologist Gerard Labuschagne unpacks one of Pretoria’s most disturbing serial m...

Profiler Africa: Serial Arsonist Justin Caruso – Fires, Fatalities & the Hero Syndrome

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gérard Labuschagne and Paul Vivare joined by world-renowned arson investigator Ed Nordskog to dissect the chilling case of Justin Caruso, a serial ar...

Mother City Massacre: The Sizzlers Story. An Interview with survivor Quinton Taylor

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In January 2003, Cape Town was rocked by one of the most brutal mass murders in South African history. Inside a massage parlour called Sizzlers, ten m...

SA's Queen of True Crime: Nicole Engelbrecht & Gerard Labuschagne on Justice and Parole

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Profiler Africa, Paul Viv and Dr. Gerard Labuschagne sit down with Nicole Engelbrecht – South Africa’s leading true crime voice, crea...

Insights of an Operational Forensic Psychiatrist with Dr Peter Collins

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Profiler Africa, forensic psychologist Gerard Labuschagne sits down with Peter Collins, a globally recognized operational forensic psychi...

The Westonaria Strangler: Justice in the Shadows

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, forensic psychologist Gerard Labuschagne takes us inside one of South Africa’s most disturbing — yet largely ignored — serial murder ...

SAPS in Crisis: A System Collapsing from Within

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For years, Profiler Africa has warned that cracks were forming inside South Africa’s law enforcement system. This week, those cracks turned into a f...

🚨 SYSTEM FAILURE: The Rosebank Police Station Shooting

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Profiler Africa, South Africa's leading forensic psychologist Gerard Labuschagne takes us inside a shocking event that rocked an affl...

Harvested Alive: The Truth About ‘Muti’ Murders in South Africa

02 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Profiler Africa, forensic psychologist Gérard Labuschagne uncovers the terrifying world of muti murders — killings where body parts ar...

The Hostage Whisperer: Inside SAPS' Elite Negotiation Unit with Dr Ernst Strydom

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Profiler Africa goes behind the scenes of South Africa’s most high-stakes standoffs with Dr Ernst Strydom — SAPS’ former National Coo...

A Fine White Treason | Inside the Boeremag’s deadly plot to overthrow South Africa

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this explosive episode, Paul and Gerard sit down with retired Colonel Tollie Vreugdenburg — former head of SAPS Counter-Terrorism — to expose t...

Blood on the Land: The Human Toll of South Africa’s Farm Murders

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Profiler Africa, we go deep into one of the most brutal and misunderstood crime waves in South Africa — farm murders.Host Paul Llewelly...

Farm Murders: Crime, or Conspiracy?

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Profiler Africa | Episode Out NowWho’s really killing who in South Africa?In one of our most explosive episodes yet, Paul Llewellyn and forensic psy...

The Etwatwa Family Axe Murders | The Little Killer | South African Serial Ep 3

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We delve into one of the most disturbing familicides in South African history — the Etwatwa family murders.On May 23, 2013, a 14-year-old boy in Joh...

Serial Killer Cop | Kobus Geldenhuys: The Terror of Norwood | South African Serial Ep 2

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is the case that chilled Johannesburg to the bone.Between 1989 and 1992, Kobus Geldenhuys — a police officer sworn to protect — unleashed a w...

Profiling Killers: From South Africa to Scotland Yard

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Psychologist. Intelligence specialist. Co-author of Killer Stories. This week, Paul and Gerard sit down with Brin Hodgskiss for a heavyweight conversa...

🔥 When Fire Becomes Murder: Profiling Arsonists with Ed Nordskog

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

No case breakdown. No fluff. Just a gripping conversation with one of the world’s top arson and bombing experts.We’re joined by Ed Nordskog—reti...

🎙️ Talking about Murder with Tshego Paledi: Profiler Meets Telling the Told & Untold

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What’s it like creating true crime content in South Africa? This week, we sit down with YouTuber and storyteller Tshego Paledi (44K+ subscribers) fo...

Natural Born Killer?: Boetie Boer Wilken | South African Serial Ep 1

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Series Description:South African Serial is a 12-part true crime anthology series. Each episode investigates one unforgettable South African crime.Epis...

Stolen from the womb: Caesarean Kidnapping

30 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week: one of the rarest — and most horrifying — crimes on earth. A baby ripped from the womb in a violent act of theft.We go deep into the ca...

Family Killer: Henri van Breda

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

He murdered his family with an axe — thencalmly called emergency services like nothing happened.We're digging into one of South Africa’s mostshock...

The Psychology of Murder with Finland’s Leading Profiler Dr. Helinä Häkkänen

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We're stepping out of the morgue and into the mind — with one of the world’s top forensic psychologists.This week on Profiler Africa, our guest is...

The Horrors of Stewart 'Boetie Boer' Wilken: South Africa’s Most Notorious Killer

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Profiler Africa, we take a deep dive into the terrifying case of Stewart Wilken, South Africa's most notorious serial killer. W...

The Seesig Monster: Inside the mind of Kyle Ruiters with Col. (ret.) Kirsten Clark

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Profiler Africa, we’re joined by Colonel (Ret.) Kirsten Clark, former SAPS Investigative Psychologist and Criminal Behaviour Spec...

The Krugersdorp Cult Killings with Author Jana Marx

26 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Profiler Africa, we’re joined by Jana Marx, author of The Krugersdorp Cult Killings: Inside Cecilia Steyn's Reign of Terror, as s...

Shocking Courtroom Moments: A Crime Reporter's View with Jana Marx

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What really happens inside South Africa’s courtrooms? What is it like to cover the country’s most gripping murder trials?In this episode of Profil...

The murder of Reeva Steenkamp by Oscar Pistorius

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Oscar Pistorius trial remains one of the most infamous criminal cases in South African history. Twelve years after Reeva Steenkamp’s tragic deat...

Crime, Power & the Law: A conversation with Advocate Gerrie Nel

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Profiler Africa, we’re joined by one of South Africa’s most respected legal minds, Gerrie Nel.With a career spanning decades, N...

Hillbrow Killer Cop Marius van den Heever

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 1994, ex-cop Marius van den Heever was convicted of three brutal murders, arson, and weapons theft. Sentenced to life, he spent decades behind bars...

The Pastor's Murder: Inside an Intimate Partner Murder Mystery

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In October 2021, respected pastor Liezel de Jager returned home from her morning jog—only to be ambushed and murdered just steps from her front door...

A Serial Killer in the Making? An interview with the murderer Jose da Silva

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 2002, forensic psychologist Gerard Labuschagne walked into his first crime scene—a brutal murder that would lead to the capture of Axe Killer Jos...

Body Of Evidence: Stories from behind the Pathologist's knife with guest Dr Hestelle van Staden

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Forensic pathologists uncover the final truths that the dead leave behind. Their work tells the untold stories of crime, tragedy, and justice—one au...

Forensic Pathology in South Africa with Dr Shakeera Holland

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Forensic pathology is at the heart of criminal investigations—determining causes of death, uncovering hidden evidence, and bringing crucial facts to...

The Forensic Science of Identifying Bodies with Lawrence Hill

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In rural South Africa, a grim discovery: human remains with no identity, no backstory, and no immediate leads. How do forensic experts step in to solv...

The Murder of Jacques du Plessis by Mariska du Plessis

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On the night of June 23, 2017, Mariska du Plessis made two chilling calls to the police. In the first, she claimed her husband was violently attacking...

The Murder of Gabriela Kabrins Alban

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Profiler Africa, forensic psychologist Gerard Labuschagne unpacks the shocking murder of Gabriela Kabrins Alban, a successful marke...

Teenage Serial Killer: The Vredendal Murderer

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’re diving into the chilling case of a teenage serial killer from Vredendal in the Western Cape. At just 14 years old, he committed his first viol...

A Typical South African Serial Killer The Quarry Revisited

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How Gerard and his team tracked down the Quarry Killer. We revisit a case we've discussed before on the audio pod, this time we get to really deep div...

The Tokoloshe Killer: Elifasi Msomi

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Profiler Africa, we uncover the chilling case of Elifasi Msomi, infamously known as "The Axe Killer" & "The Tokoloshe Killer". Betwee...

SA's Youngest Serial Killer

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Paul & Gerard discuss the case of SA’s youngest ever female serial killer. Join the chat Live on Profiler Africa on Youtube Tuesdays at 8pm CAT....

The Serial Killer Catcher: Micki Pistorius

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This Week on Profiler Africa: A True Crime ExclusiveFor the first time ever, South Africa’s premier criminal profilers—Gerard Labuschagne and Mick...

The Murder of Anisha van Niekerk

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 2008, the brutal murder of Anisha van Niekerk shocked South Africa. This week, Profiler Africa takes you inside the case with forensic psychologist...

The Murder of Susan Rohde

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Profiler Live, we delve into the mysterious death of Susan Rohde. Was it a tragic suicide, or was there something more sinister beh...

PROFILER EP 38 - The Rosebank Police Station Shooting

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2011, tragedy struck the Rosebank police station in Johannesburg when a disgruntled police clerk attacked station commander Lieutenant Colonel Than...

PROFILER EP 37 - The Sunday Serial Killer Sifiso Mkhwanazi

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On March 13, 2024, Sifiso Mkhwanazi was convicted of the brutal murders of six Johannesburg sex workers. These heinous crimes occurred between April a...

PROFILER EP 36 - The Seesig Monster Kyle Ruiters

03 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're diving into a case that rocked the quiet neighborhood of Bellville in Cape Town. It was August 21, 2019, when Lynette Volschenk, known for her g...

PROFILER EP 35 - The Terrible Trail of Gerhard Ackerman

12 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gerhard Ackerman was convicted on charges of rape, human trafficking and the unlawful possession, creation and distribution of child pornography. Acke...

PROFILER Episode 34 - Top Cop Part 2

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In episode two we deep-dive into the story of Anisha Van Niekerk, and how Gerard and Jannie De Lange worked tirelessly to solve the case and bring jus...

PROFILER Episode 33 - Top Cop Part 1

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In episode one, we meet one of South Africa's most accomplished investigators, retired Lt Colonel and IPS Lead Detective, Jannie De Lange. We discuss...

PROFILER Episode 32 - The Get Out Of Jail Card

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're back! Catching up on the state of the nation, and deep diving into the fact that some very interesting criminals are being released on parole. ...

PROFILER Episode 31 - The Railway Killer

16 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

During 2005 four bodies were found in Pretoria, the capital city of South Africa, along the railway tracks. This led to a serial murder task team bei...

PROFILER Episode 30 - Forensic Tools With Peter Fryer

09 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We go behind the scenes of crime prevention to discuss the technologies that are applied in local law enforcement, with Peter Fryer, who has spent dec...

PROFILER Episode 29 - A Conversation With Colonel Tollie Vreugdenburg & the story of 'Die Boeremag'

30 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

An incredible first conversation with retiring Colonel Tollie Vreugdenburg, the Head of South Africa's counter terrorism efforts, about his incredible...

PROFILER Episode 28 - Talking Forensic Pathology W Dr Hestelle Van Staden

16 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we take a fascinating deep dive into the world of Forensic Pathology with one of SA's leading experts, and a life long devotee to the ...

PROFILER Episode 27 - The Newcastle Serial Killer

09 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Newcastle, a town between Joburg and Durban in South Africa, in 2004, four men are murdered over the period of a year. All are killed in or around...

PROFILER Episode 26 - The Right Wing Tale of Harry Johannes Knoesen

29 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On 28 November 2019 the Crimes Against the State (CATS) unit of the South African Police Service (SAPS) arrested Harry Johannes Knoesen (60) at his gi...

PROFILER Episode 25 - The Westonaria Strangler

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“I want you to help me because when I am with a woman, I lose control and don’t know what I am doing. I kill all of them if they don’t give me w...

PROFILER Episode 24 - Talking True Crime SA With Nicole Engelbrecht

07 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we chat with Nicole Engelbrecht, creator and host of the True Crime South Africa Podcast, and author of 'Samurai Sword Murder', which ...

PROFILER Episode 23 - The State versus Mariska Du Plessis

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On 23 June 2017 Mariska du Plessis made two calls to the police. In the first at 22:55 she said that her husband, was attacking her son and herself....

PROFILER Episode 22 - Current Cases (The Bodies in JHB) & Gerard's Guide to Investigative Psychology

24 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week we discuss some current cases, including the discovery of the bodies of murdered sex workers in downtown Joburg recently. Plus, we break do...

PROFILER Episode 21 - Killing the King of America: A Threat Assessment Case Study

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Around the time of US president Barrack Obama’s visit to Sub-Saharan Africa in June/July 2013 an emailed death threat was received by the US consula...

PROFILER Episode 20 - Gerhard Jansen van Vuuren & the Murder of Andrea Venter

10 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

That one case that Gerard was determined to see through to a conviction. How Gerhard janse van Vuuren murdered his girlfriend Andrea Venter, and then...

PROFILER Episode 19 - Brian The Stalker Harvey

24 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We travel back to 2010 and discuss the case of Brian Harvey who stalked over 40 women.

PROFILER Episode 18 - JOSEPH THE AXEMAN NTSHONGWANA

02 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the space of just 8 days in March 2011 Joseph Ntshongwana killed four people, some of whom he decapitated with an axe.

PROFILER Episode 17 - CATCHING UP PT 2

02 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

More catching up...this time we talk about Gerard's 2nd book and tease the cases within it.

PROFILER Episode 16 - CATCHING UP PT 1

18 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Profiler is back with new episodes. Paul catches up with Gerard to discuss his book, surviving a pandemic, and his thoughts on the current state of t...

PROFILER Episode 15 - THE AXE KILLER JOSE DA SILVA

11 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 2002, Gerard attended his first crime scene. It was that of the murder victim of Jose da Silva, who would become known as the Axe Killer. Hear th...

PROFILER Episode 14 - Tommy Williams

26 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The incredible tale of South Africa's longest active serial killer. Upon his conviction the Judge said “The State (and here I include the two prose...

PROFILER Episode 13 - Stewart 'Boetie Boer' Wilken

18 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I would strangle them while having sex. I would go into another world when I am strangling them and raping them. When I was strangling them, they woul...

PROFILER Episode 12 - The Knysna Murders

04 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we discuss a series of murders that took place in Knysna over a one-month period in Autumn, 2005. They became known as The Knysna Murd...

PROFILER Episode 11 - Violent Fantasy

27 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we discuss Violent Fantasy illustrated through the murder of Michael van Eck in Welkom in 2011. Michael was lured via a dating app to...

PROFILER Episode 10 - The Norwood Serial Killer

20 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Kobus Geldenhuys, the Norwood Serial Killer, committed house robberies, rapes and murders in the early 1990s in Johannesburg. A policeman, he raped 2...

PROFILER Episode 9 - The Nocturnal Prowler

15 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we discuss a current case. A murderer, dubbed the Nocturnal Prowler, is believed to be killing homeless people in Pretoria. We unpac...

PROFILER Episode 8 - Fetal Abduction

23 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we explore Fetal Abduction, otherwise known as Cesarean Kidnapping. These crimes involve the forced removal, by means of a crude caes...

PROFILER Episode 7 - Muti Murder

15 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we discuss the phenomenon of Muti Murder. Muti murder is defined as a murder in which body parts are removed from a live victim for t...

PROFILER Episode 6 - The Hillbrow Birthday Rapist

18 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we discuss the Hillbrow Birthday Rapist who was convicted on 112 of 122 counts against him which included 39 counts of rape, 11 compel...

PROFILER Episode 5 - The Griekwestad Family Murders

11 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we discuss the Griekwestad family murders. Don Steenkamp murdered his father Deon Steenkamp (44) his mother Christel (43) and his sist...

PROFILER Episode 4 - The Port Elizabeth Prostitute Killer

03 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we discuss the Port Elizabeth Prostitute Killer, Riaan Stander, who murder sex workers Lee-Ann Rondganger and Noxolo Ngqoyiya in 2007....

PROFILER Episode 3 - Serial Crime in SA and how to train a Profiler.

28 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we discuss the history and status of serial crime in SA and learn how the cops are trained to catch serial criminals.

PROFILER Episode 2 - Creating A Profile & The Johannesburg Mine Dump Murderer

20 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we discuss the history and evolution of profiling, and we profile the Johannesburg Mine Dump Murderer.

PROFILER Episode 1 - The Quarry Killer

11 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Profiler is a weekly discussion between journalist Paul Llewellyn & former Head of Forensic Investigation at the South African Police Service, Gerard ...