Profiler: True Crime Africa
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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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Confessor Cop: How South Africa’s Legendary Detective Made Killers Talk | Jonathan Morris Interview
Tonight on Profiler Africa, Paul Llewellyn and co-host Gerard Labuschagne are joined by retired Cape Town detective Jonathan Morris — the man many cri...
MURDER ON THE MIND | EPISODE 6 | VAN ECK
A date arranged online ended in murder.
This episode explores one of South Africa’s most disturbing killer-couple cases — where shared violent f...
MURDER ON THE MIND | EPISODE 7 | VAN BREDA
One of South Africa’s most followed murder trials.
This episode examines the Van Breda family murders through behavioural evidence, family annih...
MURDER ON THE MIND | EPISODE 1 | THE QUARRY KILLER
One of South Africa’s most disturbing serial murder cases.
In this episode of Murder on the Mind, we examine how Richard Nyauza preyed on vulner...
MURDER ON THE MIND | EPISODE 2 | STUART “BOETIE BOER” WILKEN
One of South Africa’s most notorious serial killers.
This episode explores Stuart “Boetie Boer” Wilken through the lens of forensic psychology —...
MURDER ON THE MIND | EPISODE 3 | GRIEKWASTAD
A family murder that shocked South Africa.
This episode examines the Griekwastad murders through forensic psychology — exploring motive, plannin...
MURDER ON THE MIND | EPISODE 4 | TOMMY WILLIAMS
One of South Africa’s longest-active known serial killers.
This episode examines how Tommy Williams killed across decades while remaining close...
MURDER ON THE MIND | EPISODE 5 | JOSEPH NTSHONGWANA
Known as the Axeman of Brighton Beach.
This episode separates myth from reality by examining why Joseph Ntshongwana is best understood as a spre...
MURDER ON THE MIND | EPISODE 8 | RIAAN STANDER
The killer next door.
This episode examines how an outwardly ordinary man was able to harbour violent fantasy, target vulnerable victims, and co...
Unsolved: The Cases South Africa Left Behind | With Guest True Crime SA's Nicole Engelbrecht
We are back with one of the most important voices in South African true crime.
In this episode, Paul Llewellyn and Profiler Africa co-host Gerar...
30 Years of Darkness: Lt Col (Ret.) Elmarie Myburgh on the Frontlines of Serial Crime
In this episode of Profiler Africa, Paul Llewellyn and Professor Gérard Labuschagne are joined by Gerard's former colleague and SAPS legend, Lt Col (R...
When the Dead Have No Name | Victim Identification & Forensic Truth | Profiler Africa
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How to Spot a Serial Killer? | And other Questions You Always Wanted to Ask a Profiler
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The Case of the Missing Crime Shows
Over the past few months, several of our documentaries temporarily disappeared from this channel.
That wasn’t an algorithm issue.
It was t...
Griekwastad | A Family Murder That Still Haunts South Africa | Profiler Africa
This week on Profiler Africa, hosts Paul Llewellyn and Gérard Labuschagne unpack one of the most disturbing family murder cases in South African histo...
Memory on Trial | When Recovered Memories Decide Guilt | Profiler Africa
What happens when a criminal case is built not on physical evidence — but on memory?
In this episode of Profiler Africa, co-hosts Paul Llewellyn...
WHEN RAGE BECOMES MURDER | The Daniel Smit Case
In 2022, a 13-year-old boy was murdered in Klawer after stealing fruit from a garden.
The man responsible, Daniel Hugo Smit, chased the child in...
Brighton Beach Axe Murders | Profiling Joseph Ntshongwana
Durban, March 2011.
Four men murdered in eight days — two decapitated. All strangers. All ambushed and hacked to death with an axe.
The ki...
POISON IN ELDOS | The Teacher, The Rattex & 46? Days of Lies | Profiler Africa
This week, we break down the case of Annerize LeoniceSmith, who poisoned her partner Russell Kriel, a respected teacherand rugby mentor, and hid his d...
PREDATOR | Inside South Africa’s Most Disturbing Child-Exploitation Case
For over a decade, Gerhard Ackerman operated in plain sight — grooming, abusing, and trafficking young boys under the guise of mentorship and massage...
Inside Forensic Pathology with Dr Candice Hansmeyer | Life, Death & the Truth Behind the Table
Dr Candice Hansmeyer has spent her career speaking for the dead — first in South Africa’s chaotic mortuaries, now in Canada’s pristine labs.
In...
Kidnap for Ransom in Africa: Inside the World of Real Hostage Negotiators | Profiler Africa
People disappear every day — but what happens when someone is kidnapped for ransom?
This week on Profiler Africa, forensic psychologist Gerard L...
The Masoyi Serial Killer: Buried on His Own Property | Profiler Africa
Between 2017 and 2019, five women vanished in Masoyi, Mpumalanga. Their bodies were later found buried on the killer’s own property — a chilling signa...
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?
Profiler Africa | Episode Out Now
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...