Have you ever heard of the name Moses Sithole?
For SouthAfrica, this man was one of the worst criminals in the country.
Moses came from a troubled background.
A passport photograph of the villain. Photo: The TM PodcastSource: Facebook
Although it did not seem like he was going to take the atrocious path, he eventually did.
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He achieved the crimes in three regions, with the areas' first letters' forming the acronymABC.
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A troubled childhood
Moses was born inVosloorus, near Boksburg, Transvaal Province,South Africa.
He lived with his parents, Simon and Sophie Sithole together with his four siblings.
A photo of the criminal before his incarceration. Photo: @_reynSource: Facebook
The area they lived in was an impoverished area.
The father passed away when Sithole was still young.
What followed next is all the five siblings in Kwazulu Natal living in an orphanage.
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A juvenile Sithole got away from the orphanage after three years in the system because he was being mistreated.
He sought solace from his older brother Patrick, and he moved in.
While there, he did several menial works in farms and goldmines around Johannesburg.
A photograph of the criminal in the local papers when he was still being hunted. Photo: Saartjie Klipkop.Source: Facebook
Apart from that, the ladies also considered him sweet and charming.
He committed his atrocities at a time when he ran a non-documentedorganization.
In 1987, Moses began defiling women.
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He was charged and sentenced to 6 years in prison.
In 1993, Sithole got released from prison on account of good behaviour.
Soon after, he began committing the murders.
Moses would then beat, defile, and kill by strangulation.
He moved from the areas of Atteridgeville, Boksburg, and Cleveland.
The sequence of events in the locations coined the nameABC murders.
Within this period, the murders had reached their peak.
President Nelson Mandela, the then-president, asked for public collaboration to apprehend the suspect.
She later also incorporated assistance from the retired FBI profiler Robert Ressler.
In July of that year, Moses was spotted with a victim, but he narrowly escaped the authorities.
Months later, two bodies of women he had murdered were discovered.
That year in October, Sithole called alocal paper, The Star.
He identified himself asJoseph Magwena, the villain being sought.
He was soon after intercepted by police in Johannesburg.
When he got arrested, he got shot and had to be hospitalized.
He was also found to be HIV-positive.
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The villain’strial beganin 1996.
He was charged with 38 counts of murder, 40 counts of rape, and six counts of robbery.
The total amounts to 2,140 years in jail.
He was confined at the Pretoria Central Prison in the section of C-Max security.
He is currently at the Mangaung Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein.
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During Moses' first sentence, he met a woman called Martha.
The two met when Martha came to visit a relative in prison.
The pair started a relationship by sending each other letters.
In 1993, after his release, herelocated toPretoria with Martha and her parents.
However, after the birth of their daughter in December 1994, the pair split up.
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Source: Briefly News
Lynn KandieLynn Kandie is a reporter with 5 years of experience in writing.
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She graduated from the University of Nairobi in 2019 with honours after pursuing a BSc.
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