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Callum. The writer for this channel has written me a script. It's like some 18 pages callum.

These get longer and longer and I love it and I'm going to read it. Gen afterwards.

A wonderful video editor. Audio editor person is going to add some,

well make it more moodyful and some music. All of that stuff which I of course have not heard,

but I will in the future. And let's just jump into it shall we?

September 1995. Everyone's favourite president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela,

has cancelled a trip overseas in order to attend to a horrific situation unfolding at home.

Along with officials from the Department of Justice, he travels to Boxberg,

just a few miles east of Johannesburg, to give a press conference. On national television,

he addresses the people of the cities and townships, asking for their help in identifying the men

issues crimes have been plaguing the nation for over a year. The one dubbed the ABC killer by the press.

It's hardly the most intimidating nickname chosen because the serial killer's victims

had been turning up in the vicinity of Atta Ridgeville, Boxberg, and Cleveland.

Authorities didn't have the time but the killer had already claimed a staggering 31 victims.

Oh boy, we are in serious serial killer territory. Not that all serial killing isn't serious,

but 31 is more than qualified. And we'll go on to kill at least five more. That figure could

potentially be as high as 72. But in either case, by the time he was done, the ABC killer would go

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