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Gamal Lineveldt | |
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| Born | Gamal Salie Lineveldt 1919 Wynberg, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Died | 1942 (aged 22–23) Pretoria Central Prison, South Africa |
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Criminal status | Executed by hanging |
| Conviction | Murder |
Criminal penalty | Death |
| Details | |
| Victims | 4 |
Span of crimes | 1940–1941 |
| Country | South Africa |
| State | Western Cape |
Date apprehended | 14 March 1941 |
Gamal Salie Lineveldt (1919–1942), also known as Gamat Salie Lineveldt, and Salie Lingevelt, was a South African serial killer and rapist. He was responsible for the rape and murder of four women in Cape Town, South Africa.[1][2]
Lineveldt's first murder victim was Ethel Marais, on 3 October 1940. He then killed Dorothy Marie Tarling on 22 October, and Evangeline Bird on 11 November. His last murder was of May Overton Hoets on 25 November. In court, Lineveldt plead guilty to all four murders.[3]
Marais was found, still alive but unable to speak, in "the field off Brockhurst Road, Lansdowne". She was taken to hospital, where she later died.
Tarling was found lying dead on the floor of her house in Wynberg.
Bird was attacked in broad daylight, on the stoep (porch) of her house in Wetton Avenue, Lansdowne. She was found almost immediately and taken to hospital, where she died the next afternoon.[4] The entire attack had taken place in the span of about five minutes.
Hoets was found lying dead on her bed in her house on Thornhill Road, Rondebosch.[2]
At the trial, Dr. I. Gordon (the assistant state pathologist) testified regarding his findings. All four women died of blunt force trauma to the head after being struck with a blunt instrument multiple times. He found evidence that Hoets had been raped, but he did not find any signs of rape when examining Marais and Bird (they may have been assaulted in a way that did not leave physical evidence, or the evidence was inadvertently removed in the course of hospital treatment). In the case of Tarling, the signs he found were inconclusive.[5]
Lineveldt was executed in 1942.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 Newton, Michael (2006). The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers (2nd ed.). p. 371.
Lineveldt, Gamal Salie (1919–1942). SEX: M. RACE: W. TYPE: T. MOTIVE: Sex. DATE(S): 1940–1941. VENUE: Cape Town, South Africa. VICTIMS: Four. MO: Raped/bludgeoned women. DISPOSITION: Confessed all counts; hanged, 1942.
- 1 2 Pistorius, Micki (2012). Strangers On The Street - Serial homicide in South Africa. Penguin Random House South Africa. pp. 48–50.
- ↑ "Maleier erken moord op 4 blanke vroue: Opsienbarende getuienis" [Malay admits murder of 4 white women: Shocking testimony]. Die Transvaler (in Afrikaans). 10 June 1941. p. 6.
GAMAT SALIE LINEVELDT, 'n jong Kaapse Maleier, het vandag in die hof erken dat hy die moordenaar is wat in Oktober en November jl. so 'n skrikbewind in die suidelike voorstede gevoer het. Hy het skuld beken op aanklag van moord van vier blanke vroue—mev. Ethel Marais op 3 Oktober; mev. Dorothy Marie Tarling op 22 Oktober; mej. Evangeline Bird op 11 November en mev. May Overton Hoets op 25 November.
[GAMAT SALIE LINEVELDT, a young Cape Malay, admitted in court today that he was the murderer who instigated such a reign of terror in the southern suburbs in October and November last year. He pleaded guilty to the murder of four white women—Mrs. Ethel Marais on 3 October; Mrs. Dorothy Marie Tarling on 22 October; Miss Evangeline Bird on 11 November and Mrs. May Overton Hoets on 25 November.] - ↑ "Polisie fynkam Kaapse Skiereiland" [Police finely comb Cape Peninsula]. Die Transvaler (in Afrikaans). 13 November 1940. p. 1.
- ↑ "Jong Maleier ter dood veroordeel: Skuldig aan moord op vier blanke vroue" [Young Malay sentenced to death: Guilty of murder of four white women]. Die Transvaler (in Afrikaans). 11 June 1941. p. 7.