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10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

The ABC Killer: Moses Sithole

10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

Joe Kuner

Entertainment News, True Crime, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4.8614 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

A killer stalked the streets of 1990’s apartheid South Africa, targeting vulnerable women and leaving a trail of brutality behind him. Using a front and the promise of a potential job to lure his victims in, this twisted, sadistic murderer perpetuated the life of pain that seemed to follow him like a dark cloud.

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0:00.0

Discretion, Discretion advised.

0:15.0

This is 10-minute murder. In 1964, Moses Sitthole was born in Valouris, a town near Bauxburg-Transville Providence

0:49.7

and apartheid South Africa. His mother and father, Sophie and Simon Sithole, had very little with five

0:56.4

children to feed. There was often not enough to go around. The Sittholes, like many struggling

1:02.2

South African families at the time, lived in poverty, a poverty that only deepened when Simon Sithole

1:08.8

suddenly died. Moses was just five years old when his father

1:13.3

passed away, and the family was left with no income to support themselves. Desperate and out of

1:19.8

options, Sophie gathered her children together one day and took them to a local police station,

1:26.2

where she left them.

1:32.3

Moses and his siblings were then caught it off to an orphanage in Kwazulu Natal,

1:34.5

where life took another drastic turn.

1:39.0

Moses and his siblings later claimed that they'd been subjected to abuse while living in the South African childcare services,

1:42.3

and when Moses became a teenager, he just couldn't take it anymore.

1:46.3

He preferred risking a life on the streets rather than staying at the orphanage, and he took off one

1:51.8

day never to return. He reached out to his older brother, Patrick, who was able to give Moses a place

1:57.8

to stay for a short while. But Patrick was also barely standing on his own

2:02.8

two feet and couldn't offer Moses very much. Moses turned to working in the Johannesburg gold mines

2:09.7

to support himself, which kept food in his belly and a roof over his head, but it also gave him

2:14.8

the opportunity to stretch his wings a little bit.

2:18.5

It was early in his teenage years that Moses' interest and sex began.

2:23.8

At first, he satiated his urges with his girlfriends,

2:28.1

but he found that he couldn't keep one for very long.

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