The Van Breda Family Murders
True Crime with Elli Mac
04/11/23
•24m
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On the morning of 27th January 2015, police arrived at the doors of 12 Goske Street after receiving a strange call stating that intruders had broken into a house in one of the most exclusive estates in Stellenbosch, South Africa and attacked and killed the whole family with an axe.The call had come in just after 7am, from one of the survivors of the attack, 20-year-old Henri Van Breda, who strangely sounded very unphased...
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