Sipho Mandla Agmatir Thwala is a South African rapist and serial killer who was convicted in 1999 for the murders of 16 women and 10 rapes. He was sentenced to 506 years in prison. Thwala was known by the moniker the Phoenix Strangler.
Thwala began his year-long rape and murder spree in 1996 in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province.[1] His modus operandi was to lure local women into accompanying him through the sugarcane fields of Mount Edgecombe near the town of Phoenix with the promise of employment as domestic workers in nearby hotels. Once they were deep within the cane fields, Thwala would attack the women, bind them with their own undergarments and then rape and strangle them to death.[2]
He relied on physical evidence of his attacks being destroyed through the common farming practice of burning cane fields, which set the police investigation back until a body was eventually discovered that had not yet been burned.
The killer became known as "the Phoenix Strangler".[2]
Arrest and convictionedit
Thwala was arrested in 1997 after South African police matched DNA found on the victims to DNA taken from Thwala in 1994 when he had been arrested and acquitted of a rape.[2]
On 31 March 1999, the High Court in Durban found Thwala guilty of 16 murders and 10 rapes and sentenced him to 506 years in prison.[1]
^ abcDiscovery Channel: Crimes and Forensics. Crimes That Shook The World. 2009-12-08 at the Wayback Machine
^Cannon, Nicholas (2 March 2024). "Catch Me A Killer: release date, cast, plot, trailer, episode guide, exclusive interview and everything you need to know". whattowatch.com. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
^Goldbart, Max (25 January 2024). "'Catch Me a Killer': Showmax unveils trailer for serial killer profiler series starring 'Game of Thrones' Charlotte Hope" (video + text). Deadline.
Further readingedit
Newton, Michael (2000). The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. New York: Checkmark Books. ISBN0-8160-3979-8.
January 01, 1970
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