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PROFILER Episode 5 - The Griekwestad Family Murders

Profiler: True Crime Africa
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In this episode we discuss the Griekwestad family murders. Don Steenkamp murdered his father Deon Steenkamp (44) his mother Christel (43) and his sister Marthella (14) on April 6, 2012. We are joined by Bronwynn Stollarz. Bronwynn is a Clinical Psychologist. She resigned from SAPs special investigative psychology section on the rank of Colonel. In the IPS she was the section commander of the Forensic Psychology sub-section, in charge of the forensic psychologists in the unit. She has worked on a wide range of psychologically motivated crimes, from single sexual murders, to family murders to rape series. She worked on high profile cases such as the Oscar Pistorius case, and the Van Breda family murders in Stellenbosch.

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