South Africa: Gruesome muti-murder accused, Afrikaans builder Eduard Pretorius 33, slaughtered Maria Mathe

Gruesome muti-murder: first-ever known incident where an Afrikaans-speaking man is accused of a muti-murder (slaughtering a person and harvesting the body parts for resale to a witch doctor).

Local Swartruggens builder Eduard Pretorius, 33 is to appear in Swartruggens court on Feb 7 2014: the SAPS says he ‘s charged with slaughtering Maria Mathe, 25, and that he has confessed that he was offered R30,000 for her body-parts by a local witch-doctor.

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