November 17, 1964 - Moses Sithole
Operating across multiple townships in South Africa over roughly sixteen months, Sithole carried out one of the country's most extensive series of killings, targeting women he lured under the pretense of offering employment. The geographic spread of his crimes — spanning Atteridgeville, Boksburg, and Cleveland — reflected both his mobility and the time it took investigators to connect the cases. The sentence handed down, over two thousand years, reflects the scale of what the courts determined he had done.
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Moses Sithole (born 17 November 1964) is a South African serial killer and rapist who committed the ABC Murders. It is believed that he is so named because they began in Atteridgeville, continued in Boksburg and finished in Cleveland, a suburb of Johannesburg. However, many other sources state that the cities were not in that order, rather beginning in Cleveland, continuing in Boksburg and finishing in Atteridgeville. This has not been denied nor confirmed.
Sithole murdered at least 37 women and one toddler between 16 July 1994 and 6 November 1995. Sithole was sentenced to 2,410 years imprisonment and is currently incarcerated in Mangaung Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein.
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