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Johannes
MASHIANE
Known as "The Beast of Atteridgeville",
this South African, slayer sodomised and killed 12 boys by either
strangling or stoning them. In October 1989 the lethal sodomite died
when he jumped under a bus in Marabastad while being chased by police.
An intended 13th victim, who Mashiane
had left for dead, survived to tell the tale. Mashiane committed this
spate of serial slaughter after serving a five-year sentence for killing
his girlfriend.
Johannes Mashiane
AKA The Beast of Atteridgeville is a South African sodomist and
serial killer who accounted for 13 victims before committing suicide in
1989. Mashiane was being chased by police in the Pretoria suburb of
Marabastad when he jumped underneath a bus.
Mashiane started his murderous activity circa 1977 by
murdering his girlfriend. Released in 1982, he immediately started his
spate of murder and sodomy accounting for the deaths of at least 12
young boys by strangulation or stoning. One victim is known to have
survived Mashiane's attention.
Wikipedia.org
SEX:
M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC/Sex.
MO:
Killed girlfriend (1982); sodomized and stoned/strangled young boys.
DISPOSITION: Five years for first
murder; killed by bus fleeing scene of attack on 13th child (possible
suicide).
Michael Newton - An Encyclopedia
of Modern Serial Killers - Hunting Humans