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Crimes and Consequences

EP115: Along Came A Girl

Crimes and Consequences

Crimes and Consequences

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6859 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

23-year-old Michael Van Eck left his home on a Saturday night in 2011 to meet a woman he had been messaging on a dating app. His body was found the next morning in a graveyard missing its head, arm, and foot. Who murdered Michael? Was he catfished? A victim of "muti" murders? Or could the pretty, petite young girl he met for a date be responsible for his morbid death? Listen to this week's episode to find out what happened to Michael Van Eck in his last moments of life. Warning: This is HIGH on the gruesome scale.

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Sources for Episode:
1) Grave Murder by Jana Van Der Merwe
2) EP26 of True Crime South Africa Podcast
3) The Killings That Shook Welkom (https://mg.co.za/article/2011-07-08-the-killing-that-shook-welkom/)
4) The Cemetery Killers "We did it together" (https://www.news24.com/news24/cemetery-killer-we-did-it-together-20121030)
5) The Witch of Welkom Unmasked (https://www.pressreader.com/)

Chane Van Heerden, Maartens Van Der Merwe, Michael Van Eck

Transcript

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This episode may contain content of a graphic nature,

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including descriptions of physical and sexual violence

0:06.0

against adults, children, and animals.

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Listener discretion is advised.

0:12.0

Hi everyone, I'm Tlaia and I'm Tanya and together we are crimes and consequences a true crime

0:19.3

podcast. cast. Hi Tanya, hi Tanya,

0:39.2

Hi Tanya,

0:39.2

Hi Tilia.

0:40.1

Welcome back everybody to crimes and consequences.

0:43.0

Today I have a story that's much different than most of the stories we've ever done.

0:48.0

And I want to think our Patreon Clevenel, or Clevenel, I'm not sure how to pronounce her name. I want to thank her for

0:55.7

recommending this episode for us. This is very unusual story. It's very gruesome.

1:02.1

There's some animal cruelty, but I will warn you in advance regarding the animal cruelty.

1:07.0

Before I start, I'd like to ask everybody to take one second to hit the subscribe slash followed button on the app you're listening to us on and with that I'm

1:15.2

ready to start are you ready to listen Tanya I am ready there's gonna be some names I

1:20.2

cannot pronounce as usual as usual but I'm going to do my best I've really spent some time trying to figure it out that being said let's do it

1:30.5

Sunday morning on April 3rd in 2011 Ephraim Moralong was working in his office.

1:38.0

He was doing some paperwork and he worked at a graveyard.

1:41.0

Ooh!

1:42.0

He was a supervisor there in the mining city of Valcombe in the free state province in South Africa.

1:50.0

I think this is our first South African story. The Valcombe Cemetery is large. It has over 10,000

1:56.7

graves to maintain and that had become almost too big to manage for Ephraim and a short staff team.

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