Episode 244 - The Van Breda Family Axe Murders

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True Crime

4.5 • 18.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

When police rushed to respond to a triple murder in one of South Africa’s most exclusive gated communities, it seemed as though Henri van Breda had had a lucky escape. They found him standing on his family lawn, dead-eyed and covered in blood and urine. According to the neighbours, he had been eerily waving to them while he waited for the police. All understandable, when three of your loved ones have been hacked to death by an axe-wielding maniac.

But as police dug further into the burglary-turned-homicide, things just weren't adding up...

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1:44.5	in fact, incredibly excited to talk about South Africa. I am actually pretty excited to talk about South Africa.
1:48.4	To talk about South Africa exactly because yes we are off to the south of Africa.
1:55.8	The southiest south of Africa as you can ever south. Because at 712 am on the 27th of January 2015
2:03.7	police in Cape Town received an emergency call. The man on the other hand said he was calling from
2:09.0	Stalinbosch and that he needed their help. He said that his entire family had been killed by an
2:14.3	intruder within Axe and the operator who actually picked up the phone call thought that the whole
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