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Episode 292 - Griekwastad: The Steenkamp Family Massacre

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The sleepy town of Griekwastad South Africa woke up to absolute horror on Good Friday 2012. Three members of the local Steenkamp family had been brutally murdered, leaving their 17-year-old son Don as the only survivor. As the dust settled people blamed everything from a so-called ‘white genocide farm attack’ to a Satanic Cult. However, the reality and the family secrets that emerged were far darker than anything cooked up by the press.


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0:00.0

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0:15.6

I'm Hannah. I'm Sruti. And welcome to Redhanded. We're going back to South Africa and because this is quite a rural case,

0:24.6

quite a lot of the words are very, very, very difficult for us stupid English speakers to pronounce.

0:30.6

So I have been in touch with us South African-African correspondent, but we make no promises.

0:35.6

Now guys, we can't be from everywhere. We can't do all of the accents of the world because that's not how the world works.

0:43.6

So we'll try our best. We appreciate that we're probably pronouncing things wrong. But know that we tried.

0:49.6

Sorry about that. And for not South African listeners. This is how you're supposed to say the town that we are talking about today.

1:08.6

Yeah, no. I'm going to say Greek for start. Absolutely no fucking chance. I'm afraid. Sorry. There you go.

1:15.6

But we tried. We tried. We failed. We moved on. On Friday, the 6th of April 2012, the streets of Rue Quaststad,

1:24.6

quiet South African country town, we're empty. Back then, the only people who passed through during the day were truckers and tourists on their way to somewhere else.

1:35.6

With a small population of mostly farmers, there really wasn't much going on around there. But that all changed after Good Friday 2012.

1:45.6

After that day, the whole of South Africa would know about the town that we're talking about and unlike us, they could probably pronounce it.

1:51.6

That evening, that Good Friday at around 7pm, 15 year old Don Stienkamp,

1:57.6

sped through the town's silent streets in his father's white SUV and skidded to a halt outside of the police station.

2:05.6

With his body covered in blood and a terrified look on his face, the boy ran towards two shocked officers behind the front desk.

2:13.6

Then you don't and then you as family. So they could hardly believe what they were hearing when the stammering blood stained, brace faced, 15 year old dropped to his knees and shouted,

2:24.6

they're all dead, please help me. But the night's horror had a lot more revelations to come, including a shocking family secret that no one could have imagined.

2:38.6

When Don arrived at the station, he could barely talk, but eventually he managed to tell the story of what happened.

2:45.6

He said he'd been out in the barn while the rest of his family were watching TV in the house when he'd suddenly heard gunshots.

2:53.6

He hid until the shots stopped and then he went to the house and found his entire family brutally murdered.

3:01.6

Don then led the officers to the SUV and handed over a three five seven magnum revolver and a 22 caliber rifle that he brought with him from the farm.

3:13.6

He said that they were his fathers and he'd found them lying around outside on the ground by the gate to the farm as he was driving to the station.

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