In September of 1999, Rina Radloff, a 51-year-old millionaire businesswoman, was found dead in her luxury South African estate. She’d been stabbed to death after answering a knock at the door, a trail of blood leading to her study upstairs. A nonsensical riddle was left in a note on her desk. “Strange pictures” were found in a downstairs room by investigating police – images of five-point stars and shadowy figures.
Two weeks after the murder, notes containing details that only the killer could know were faxed to the police. Suspicion fell on Radloff’s ex-husband, who had subsequently married a famously eccentric local woman with a penchant for the “occult”, Antoinette Radloff. Investigations were initiated and Antoinette was taken in for questioning. It was a long process fraught with sensational reports in local tabloids that she was capable of “transforming” and “moving things with her eyes”, and ended with her suicide in December of 2000.
Two years later, two young men from the neighbouring township were sentenced to life in prison, having been convicted of Rina’s murder and confessed to being hired by Antoinette. A strange case came to a mundane conclusion, though local media had missed one fact: it was South Africa’s Occult-Related Crime Unit’s head, Dr Kobus “Hound of God” Jonker, who’d initially brought Antoinette in for questioning due to the case’s “occult” nature.
The Occult Unit was – and possibly is – the first and only of its kind in the world.
Source: Vice
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