A Crime Most Queer

In the early hours of Sunday, 8 September 2013, Jean Redmond makes a gruesome discovery. Her housemate, 31-year-old Morgan Huxley, is found half-naked and bloody in his bedroom, with multiple stab wounds to his upper body, neck and head. Despite paramedics doing all they can, he succumbs to his injuries en route to the hospital. Who could have hated him so much that they would end his life this wa...

In a break from ACMQ’s usual storytelling format, Nj sits down with Nicole Englebrecht, author, and podcaster (True Crime South Africa), to discuss the South African parole system and what could be done to improve the system and minimise the risk of revictimization. They dive into topics, ranging from Nicole's experience writing her book, Sizzlers: The Hate Crime that Tore Sea Point Apart and the...

In May 2023, host Nj Hourquebie was assaulted by someone who had claimed to be his friend. For the next six months, he had to navigate the criminal justice system, while simultaneously dealing with the trauma he had experienced. TRAUMA COUNSELLING Jozi Counselling https://jozicounselling.co.za SPONSOR Stripped – An Audio Drama Podcast https://startlivingmy.life/stripped CREDITS Production Director...

For 17 years, Bob Berdella convinced his neighbours that he was a bit of an oddball, but mostly harmless. Others, however, mostly the rejects and reprobates of society, knew better. When a naked man, wearing only a dog collar, flees from his house in April 1988, he reveals a story beyond imagining, a story of kidnapping, sexual sadism, and murder. Want to have your say on this episode? Leave us a...

On February 7th, 2012, nightclub owner, Bruno Bronn was discovered strangled to death in his Cape Town home. All of Bruno's friends knew exactly who did it and the police quickly arrested him and three of his associates but the story he spun told a very different story. Was he himself a victim of vicious, violent thugs or was he a cold-blooded killer? Crisis Helplines (South Africa) AIDS Helpline:...

On April 15th, 2013, Prof Carl Mischke was found beaten to death and face down in his blood-soaked bed. He was the ninth in a spate of murders of gay men in and around Johannesburg, South Africa but was his killing really the work of a serial killer or was his murderer actually someone closer to home? RECOMMENDATIONS Murder by Invitation – Charl Blignaut: https://www.news24.com/news24/murder-by-in...

When gay New Orleanians headed out to the UpStairs Lounge in the French Quarter on Sunday, June 24th, 1973, they had no idea that many of them would never be returning home. A fire started in the main stairwell leading up to the bar quickly spread, as patrons desperately tried to escape the burning building. Until the Pulse Nightclub Massacre in 2016, this was the worst loss of Queer life in Ameri...

When gay New Orleanians headed out to the UpStairs Lounge in the French Quarter on Sunday, June 24th, 1973, they had no idea that many of them would never be returning home. A fire started in the main stairwell leading up to the bar quickly spread, as patrons desperately tried to escape the burning building. Until the Pulse Nightclub Massacre in 2016, this was the worst loss of Queer life in Ameri...

When gay New Orleanians headed out to the UpStairs Lounge in the French Quarter on Sunday, June 24th, 1973, they had no idea that many of them would never be returning home. A fire started in the main stairwell leading up to the bar quickly spread, as patrons desperately tried to escape the burning building. Until the Pulse Nightclub Massacre in 2016, this was the worst loss of Queer life in Ameri...

When Joey and Anisha van Niekerk didn’t arrive in Pretoria for Joey’s father’s funeral on December 11th, 2017, their families knew something was wrong and drove to the women’s farm in Mooinooi, in North West Province. They found the farm untouched but, when they encountered Koos Strydom, who rented a workshop from the couple, his story didn’t quite add up. This is the story of how greed brought ab...

On February 12th, 2008, Larry King was shot twice in the back of the head by Brandon McInerney, a fellow student in his English class, all because Larry had made the fatal error of asking Brandon to be his Valentine and many blamed the school for failing to protect the perpetrator from his victim (no, you read that correctly). In Part 2, we explore the aftermath and the trial, and Nj also discusse...

On February 12th, 2008, Larry King was shot twice in the back of the head by Brandon McInerney, a fellow student in his English class, all because Larry had made the fatal error of asking Brandon to be his Valentine and many blamed the school for failing to protect the perpetrator from his victim (no, you read that correctly). In Part 1, we meet Larry and Brandon and look at how a 15-year-old ende...

When 15-year-old Raymond Buys was enrolled in the Echo Wild Game Rangers camp, nobody would have guessed that, less than 4 months later, he would be dead. The owner of the camp, Alex de Koker, and his assistant, Michael Erasmus, were arrested and charged with murder, child abuse, and assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, but what came out in court shocked the world. FEATURED PODCAST B...

On 27th May 2008, Annicke Thofte and Danie Robbertze were found murdered in their flat in Durban, South Africa. Both had been shot in the head. What made matters worse was that their killer was known to them. That fateful Monday night, they had invited Gordon van Niekerk into their home, as they had done many times before, but what they didn’t know was that this time he was coming for more than ju...