Alex de Koker : Echo Wild Game Rangers

This Is Monsters

Jiles

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Alex de Koker led a camp where he claimed he would turn troubled boys into men. In reality, he preyed on the weak and instead of turning them into men, he turned them into corpses.

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0:00.0	On March 24, 2011, a teen-aged boy, Raymond Bies, was taken to the hospital after falling
0:07.6	unconscious.
0:08.6	He was two months into his three-month stay at Echo Wild Game Rangers camp.
0:13.4	Ray's mom had hoped that the tough love and labor at the camp would see her son coming
0:17.6	out as a better person on the other side.
0:20.5	Instead, Ray was abused, tortured, and starved to death.
0:25.2	This is Monsters.
0:50.8	Raymond Bies was born on June 2nd, 1995, in Boxburg, East Rand, a 30-minute drive from
0:58.0	the city of Gold, Johannesburg, South Africa.
1:01.4	Raymond, or Ray, as his mother called him, grew up without a father.
1:05.7	Things were challenging, but Wilma tried to make things work.
1:09.2	She didn't have a relationship with her own father growing up and had lived through
1:12.8	her mother's multiple marriages.
1:15.7	While Ray was nine years old, it had just been him and his mother.
1:19.5	Then, Wilma met car salesman Geiss Nizar.
1:23.3	Ray wasn't entirely impressed with his mother's new boyfriend, but he eventually got used
1:28.4	to him.
1:29.4	Wilma and Geiss welcomed a son to whom Ray was a great big brother.
1:34.2	Geiss tried to build his relationship with Ray by buying him new sports equipment for
1:38.8	school.
1:39.8	Whether a new cricket bat or a pair of rugby boots, they were items that Wilma was never
1:44.0	able to afford herself.
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