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Profiler: True Crime Africa
Profiler Africa is your front-row seat to the darkest corners of South African crime. Hosted by journalist Paul Llewellyn and forensic psychologist Gerard Labuschagne—former Head of Forensic Investigation at SAPS—this gripping podcast explores the psychology of serial killers, violent criminals, and...
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Brian Harvey: South Africa’s Serial Stalker | Profiler Africa
This week on Profiler Africa, Paul and Gerard Labuschagne unpack one of the strangest and most misunderstood areas in forensic psychology: autoerotic...
Autoerotic Fatality Explained | Profiler Africa with Gerard Labuschagne
This week on Profiler Africa, Paul and Gerard Labuschagne unpack one of the strangest and most misunderstood areas in forensic psychology: autoerotic...
Inside the Mind of the Lone Actor: with New Zealand's Top Profiler
This week on Profiler Africa, Paul and Gerard Labuschagne are joined by Dr Nathan Brooks, a forensic psychologist and senior lecturer recognised inter...
The Pretoria Railway Killer: Satan, DNA & Serial Murder
This week on Profiler Africa, South Africa's leading forensic psychologist Gerard Labuschagne unpacks one of Pretoria’s most disturbing serial murder...
Profiler Africa: Serial Arsonist Justin Caruso – Fires, Fatalities & the Hero Syndrome
Gérard Labuschagne and Paul Vivare joined by world-renowned arson investigator Ed Nordskog to dissect the chilling case of Justin Caruso, a serial ars...
Mother City Massacre: The Sizzlers Story. An Interview with survivor Quinton Taylor
In January 2003, Cape Town was rocked by one of the most brutal mass murders in South African history. Inside a massage parlour called Sizzlers, ten m...
SA's Queen of True Crime: Nicole Engelbrecht & Gerard Labuschagne on Justice and Parole
This week on Profiler Africa, Paul Viv and Dr. Gerard Labuschagne sit down with Nicole Engelbrecht – South Africa’s leading true crime voice, creator...
Insights of an Operational Forensic Psychiatrist with Dr Peter Collins
This week on Profiler Africa, forensic psychologist Gerard Labuschagne sits down with Peter Collins, a globally recognized operational forensic psychi...
The Westonaria Strangler: Justice in the Shadows
This week, forensic psychologist Gerard Labuschagne takes us inside one of South Africa’s most disturbing — yet largely ignored — serial murder cases....
SAPS in Crisis: A System Collapsing from Within
For years, Profiler Africa has warned that cracks were forming inside South Africa’s law enforcement system. This week, those cracks turned into a ful...
🚨 SYSTEM FAILURE: The Rosebank Police Station Shooting
This week on Profiler Africa, South Africa's leading forensic psychologist Gerard Labuschagne takes us inside a shocking event that rocked an affluent...
Harvested Alive: The Truth About ‘Muti’ Murders in South Africa
This week on Profiler Africa, forensic psychologist Gérard Labuschagne uncovers the terrifying world of muti murders — killings where body parts are h...
The Hostage Whisperer: Inside SAPS' Elite Negotiation Unit with Dr Ernst Strydom
This week, Profiler Africa goes behind the scenes of South Africa’s most high-stakes standoffs with Dr Ernst Strydom — SAPS’ former National Coordinat...
A Fine White Treason | Inside the Boeremag’s deadly plot to overthrow South Africa
In this explosive episode, Paul and Gerard sit down with retired Colonel Tollie Vreugdenburg — former head of SAPS Counter-Terrorism — to expose the c...
Blood on the Land: The Human Toll of South Africa’s Farm Murders
This week on Profiler Africa, we go deep into one of the most brutal and misunderstood crime waves in South Africa — farm murders.
Host Paul Lle...
Farm Murders: Crime, or Conspiracy?
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Who’s really killing who in South Africa?
In one of our most explosive episodes yet, Paul Llewellyn and...
The Etwatwa Family Axe Murders | The Little Killer | South African Serial Ep 3
We delve into one of the most disturbing familicides in South African history — the Etwatwa family murders.
On May 23, 2013, a 14-year-old boy i...
Serial Killer Cop | Kobus Geldenhuys: The Terror of Norwood | South African Serial Ep 2
This is the case that chilled Johannesburg to the bone.
Between 1989 and 1992, Kobus Geldenhuys — a police officer sworn to protect — unleashed...
Profiling Killers: From South Africa to Scotland Yard
Psychologist. Intelligence specialist. Co-author of Killer Stories. This week, Paul and Gerard sit down with Brin Hodgskiss for a heavyweight conversa...
🔥 When Fire Becomes Murder: Profiling Arsonists with Ed Nordskog
No case breakdown. No fluff. Just a gripping conversation with one of the world’s top arson and bombing experts.
We’re joined by Ed Nordskog—ret...
🎙️ Talking about Murder with Tshego Paledi: Profiler Meets Telling the Told & Untold
What’s it like creating true crime content in South Africa? This week, we sit down with YouTuber and storyteller Tshego Paledi (44K+ subscribers) for...
Natural Born Killer?: Boetie Boer Wilken | South African Serial Ep 1
Series Description:South African Serial is a 12-part true crime anthology series. Each episode investigates one unforgettable South African crime.
Stolen from the womb: Caesarean Kidnapping
This week: one of the rarest — and most horrifying — crimes on earth. A baby ripped from the womb in a violent act of theft.
We go deep into the...
Family Killer: Henri van Breda
He murdered his family with an axe — thencalmly called emergency services like nothing happened.
We're digging into one of South Africa’s mostsh...
The Psychology of Murder with Finland’s Leading Profiler Dr. Helinä Häkkänen
We're stepping out of the morgue and into the mind — with one of the world’s top forensic psychologists.
This week on Profiler Africa, our guest...
The Horrors of Stewart 'Boetie Boer' Wilken: South Africa’s Most Notorious Killer
In this episode of Profiler Africa, we take a deep dive into the terrifying case of Stewart Wilken, South Africa's most notorious serial killer. Wilke...
The Seesig Monster: Inside the mind of Kyle Ruiters with Col. (ret.) Kirsten Clark
In this episode of Profiler Africa, we’re joined by Colonel (Ret.) Kirsten Clark, former SAPS Investigative Psychologist and Criminal Behaviour Specia...
The Krugersdorp Cult Killings with Author Jana Marx
In this episode of Profiler Africa, we’re joined by Jana Marx, author of The Krugersdorp Cult Killings: Inside Cecilia Steyn's Reign of Terror, as she...
Shocking Courtroom Moments: A Crime Reporter's View with Jana Marx
What really happens inside South Africa’s courtrooms? What is it like to cover the country’s most gripping murder trials?
In this episode of Pro...
The murder of Reeva Steenkamp by Oscar Pistorius
The Oscar Pistorius trial remains one of the most infamous criminal cases in South African history. Twelve years after Reeva Steenkamp’s tragic death,...
Crime, Power & the Law: A conversation with Advocate Gerrie Nel
In this episode of Profiler Africa, we’re joined by one of South Africa’s most respected legal minds, Gerrie Nel.
With a career spanning decades...
Hillbrow Killer Cop Marius van den Heever
In 1994, ex-cop Marius van den Heever was convicted of three brutal murders, arson, and weapons theft. Sentenced to life, he spent decades behind bars...
The Pastor's Murder: Inside an Intimate Partner Murder Mystery
In October 2021, respected pastor Liezel de Jager returned home from her morning jog—only to be ambushed and murdered just steps from her front door....
A Serial Killer in the Making? An interview with the murderer Jose da Silva
In 2002, forensic psychologist Gerard Labuschagne walked into his first crime scene—a brutal murder that would lead to the capture of Axe Killer Jose...
Body Of Evidence: Stories from behind the Pathologist's knife with guest Dr Hestelle van Staden
Forensic pathologists uncover the final truths that the dead leave behind. Their work tells the untold stories of crime, tragedy, and justice—one auto...
Forensic Pathology in South Africa with Dr Shakeera Holland
Forensic pathology is at the heart of criminal investigations—determining causes of death, uncovering hidden evidence, and bringing crucial facts to c...
The Forensic Science of Identifying Bodies with Lawrence Hill
In rural South Africa, a grim discovery: human remains with no identity, no backstory, and no immediate leads. How do forensic experts step in to solv...
The Murder of Jacques du Plessis by Mariska du Plessis
On the night of June 23, 2017, Mariska du Plessis made two chilling calls to the police. In the first, she claimed her husband was violently attacking...
The Murder of Gabriela Kabrins Alban
In this episode of Profiler Africa, forensic psychologist Gerard Labuschagne unpacks the shocking murder of Gabriela Kabrins Alban, a successful marke...
Teenage Serial Killer: The Vredendal Murderer
We’re diving into the chilling case of a teenage serial killer from Vredendal in the Western Cape. At just 14 years old, he committed his first violen...