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Welcome to True Friend Brewery. I'm Jill. And I'm Dick.

The Van Breeder family enjoyed well, travel, and the love of friends and family. They traveled together, had enviable

relationships, and the children were educated at some of the best schools from around the world.

All five family members were living what seemed like a dream life in a luxury estate just

outside of Stellenbosch, South Africa. But then everything changed for them overnight

in late January of 2015. Join us at the quiet end for what Marley forgot the Van Breda Axe murders.

The gruesome murders of Patriarch Martin, his wife, Teresa, and their adult son Rudy, shocked South Africa. A bloody axe identified as coming

from the Van Breda residence was recovered at the scene, but there was no indication of forced

entry or an outside assailant at all. So could it have been a member of the family who was

responsible for this crazy violence that night?

The youngest child, 16-year-old Marley, had no recollection of what happened that night.

But her 20-year-old brother Henry, who remembered details from that night, did have a story to tell.

For this beer review, I had a very difficult time coming up with a South African beer.

Are they not big on beer, or is it just because they're far away?

Mostly far away.

They make plenty of beer.

Oh, because it seems like you don't have much trouble getting Australian beers,

but that's just because of the generosity of our listeners from there?

Yes.

That's how we did the Australian beers.

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