An alleged rhino poaching kingpin, nicknamed ‘Mr Big’, was shot and killed by three armed men in a parking lot in Mpumalanga yesterday.
The shocking murder of French documentary producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier in a rural Irish town is the focus of a new Netflix true-crime series.
Caroline Crouch, 20, was found murdered in her home near Athens on 11 May. Her husband later confessed to killing her, after the evidence against him piled up.
A British socialite is being held in one of the world’s toughest prisons after she allegedly shot a policeman in Belize during a drinking session.
Leaked CCTV footage shows the parking lot outside a bar in Westridge, Mitchells Plain, where the murder took place.
The death of Tiziana Cantone, who was believed to have killed herself in 2016 after fighting to have a sex video removed from the internet, is now being investigated.
The murder of Raymond Papapavlou last October rocked the rural community of Groblersdal in Limpopo. What first seemed like a random attack has turned into “a real murder mystery”.
Actress Gay Gibson boarded the cruise liner ‘Durban Castle’ in South Africa in October of 1947, not knowing that she would never reach her destination.
I know it’s the end of the week, and you probably don’t feel like getting too serious, but there’s no escaping the fact that South Africa has an out of control femicide crisis.
Mosa Ntsibande shot and killed his wife, Hlengiwe Msimango, in a case that lawyers argue bears a very striking resemblance to the that of Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp.
What most likely began as a ploy to rob unsuspecting residents of retirement villages soon spiralled into something far more sinister.
Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed after his car was allegedly ambushed in a district east of Tehran.
After seven years of being a fugitive in Brazil, having fled before standing trial on charges of murder, Gerhard Jansen van Vuuren will finally face the music.
Drivers have been killed and others injured over the past week, with more than 30 trucks torched in a series of violent attacks.
The quarterly crime stats, released by police minister Bheki Cele, show a marked increase from the three months prior.
When detectives found a body dumped in Sunnyside, Pretoria, back in May, the fact that the body was wrapped in a sheet and a curtain, along with fallen leaves found alongside the body, proved crucial.
The investigation into the alleged murder of Vladimir Marugov has taken some bizarre twists and turns, with no sign of slowing down.
Russian oligarch Vladimir Marugov was killed in an outdoor sauna in a bizarre attack on Monday morning, and he isn’t the first.
Peter Madsen, who murdered a journalist on his submarine, escaped prison yesterday, with guards and law enforcement in hot pursuit.
The victim’s incessant social media updates, her video confessionals and text messages with her husband form the central material of the film’s narrative.
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One of the doctors charged with culpable homicide in the death of a 10-year-old boy was gunned down in Joburg yesterday.
Two more gunshot victims were found earlier in the week, contributing to Baden Powell Drive’s notoriety as a dumping ground for bodies.
On August 10, tragedy struck at a clinic in the city of Red Deer, in Canada’s Alberta province, when 45-year-old South African-born family doctor Walter Reynolds was murdered.
In CCTV footage showing the outside area of Talla’s Tavern on Beach Road, a man can be seen hopping off a motorbike and pulling out a gun.
After roughly two years in prison, Peter Madsen has finally admitted to the horrifying murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall in his homemade submarine.
When police arrested two men last month, they thought the murders would end. Now another body has been found, and one of the suspects has committed suicide.
More bodies have been found in the bushes next to Baden Powell Drive, on a stretch locals now refer to as “the killing fields of the Cape Flats”.
The quarterly crime statistics, released last week, emphasise how out of control gang violence is in the Western Cape.
On Monday morning, August 10, South African-born doctor Walter Reynolds was murdered by a patient weilding a hammer and machete at a clinic in Canada.