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A baby stolen by baboons. A wild child raised in the bush. A missing link. Scientists were fascinated and the public was captivated. But was any of it true? This is the story of Lu…

In 2006, a pregnant woman was brutally attacked and left for dead. She was one of seventeen - a victim of a killing spree that had started four years earlier.This episode covers th…

Between 1969 and 1989, the South African military ran a secret torture program called The Aversion Project. Thousands of young gay conscripts, some as young as 16, were subjected t…

In October 1964, a teacher's morning stroll by Boksburg Lake turned into a nightmare with the discovery of a suitcase containing a woman's torso. With no identity and her remains s…

In 1914, Dorethea Kraft was struggling to run her drought-stricken farm, Treurfontein. She entered a business deal with entrepreneur Louis Tumpowsky, which she believed would save…

The chocolates were a gift. The first bite was a death sentence. In 1988, a promising attorney received a gift of chocolates in the mail. Minutes after taking a single bite, his w…