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262: The Station Strangler - January 12 2020 - Today in True Crime History

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Keep up with current episodes of Morning Cup of Murder at morningcupofmurder.com There are certain professions that garner a certain about of respect and trust. And, it’s incredibly heartbreaking when one abuses this trust and power. On January 12th 1967 a South African man was born who would go on to use his profession, a teacher, to lure 21 boys away from train stations and to their deaths. Norman Avzal Simons Born (1967) Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the silver-racement

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and electricity lines.

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A weird...

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...described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.

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Morning.

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Cuff of murder.

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There are certain professions that garner an amount of respect and trust.

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And it's incredibly heartbreaking when one abuses this trust and power.

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On January 12, 1967, a South African man was born,

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who would go on to use his profession, a teacher, to lure 21 boys away from train stations

0:31.8

into their deaths. So, if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

0:43.5

Beginning in September of 1986, young boys in Cape Malay, South Africa were being lured away from train stations, raped, sodomized, and then strangled to death. The first victim was

0:56.8

14-year-old Jonathan Clausen was found in October of 1986. Their bodies, all aged between 9 and 14,

1:06.0

were later found face down with their hands tied behind their backs in shallow graves.

1:12.5

Some of these boys were found with their underwear around their necks, serving as a garad

1:17.2

with handwritten notes beside them. This killer, due to the victim's location prior to their

1:22.8

murder, was dubbed the Station Strangler. Between 1986 and 1994, there were a speculated number of

1:31.6

22 victims attributed to the Station Strangler, with 11 being found all at once in 1994

1:38.6

in a field in the outskirts of Mitchell's plane. Parents in the area were living in complete paralyzing fear.

1:46.5

Who was this man and why were their children going so willingly? Many refused to send their

1:51.9

children to school and large groups would spend time combing through bushes and fields in an effort

1:57.3

to locate the killer. The search for the station strangler would quickly become the largest hunt

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