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Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Episode 483: Hannah Cornelius and Cheslin Marsh

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.62.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Hannah Cornelius had given her friend Cheslin Marsh a ride home after a night out when their car was surrounded by four men with weapons. What happened over the next several hours was horrific, led to one death, one attack, several robberies, and a police chase. When the suspects were detained, they told varying stories and what truly happened to Hannah and Cheslin remains a question today. Click here to join our Patreon.  Connect with us on Instagram and join our Facebook group.  To submit listener stories or case suggestions, and to see all sources for this episode: https://www.inhumanpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up you guys? I'm Haley. And I'm Andrea. And this is Inhuman, a true crime podcast. Welcome back, everybody.

0:27.6

Happy day whenever you are listening to this.

0:31.6

I'm so glad to be back, even though I only missed one episode.

0:36.0

It has been a hectic week over here in my household.

0:40.4

But we are back. And today's story that I have for you is very, very heartbreaking, obviously.

0:51.7

But it's a wild one because there were four perpetrators and the way they all

0:59.3

told their stories once they were caught, like we still don't know exactly what happened.

1:05.5

Oh, geez. Okay. And, um, yeah, it, it kind of reminds me of the Allison Botha case, not because of her, like, miraculous

1:17.1

survival, partially because this is a South African case, but just the way that, like,

1:23.3

these men attacked this woman.

1:27.1

And I don't know, for some reason, it was just like giving me

1:30.4

flashbacks to that case. Oh, wow. And that's a very harrowing case. Yes, yes. I hope it has the

1:39.2

same resolution. Uh, sort of. Okay, okay.

1:48.2

And I do just want to give a trigger warning because we will be discussing sexual assault in this case.

1:50.6

I'm not going into too much detail, but it's part of it, yeah.

1:55.4

It's part of it, yeah.

1:57.1

Hannah Cornelius and Cheslin March were students at Stellenbach University in Stelenbach, a town in Western Cape, which is east of Cape Town, South Africa.

2:06.9

Now, this area was known to not necessarily be unsafe all the time, but it was generally advised to not like be alone at night in this area.

2:16.9

Like don't walk home alone be with someone else

2:20.1

don't be out after dark and that on the evening of may 26 2017 cheslin and hannah were out with

2:29.4

friends they had spent the night out with a group of people cheslin was planning on riding his

2:34.1

skateboard home that night.

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