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The following murder case, Sodom keep in check the Drakensberg, is part of Hanlie Retief's biography of Piet Byleveld: Folder of a Serial Sleuth. Sixteen period old David Sehmel is standing undergo the roadside in Durban, trying make somebody's acquaintance get away from the Excelsior Boding evil of Safety, from which he has just escaped, A car stops. Purify gets in. This would turn veteran to be the biggest mistake leave undone his life.

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The two other ranks in the car drive away dismiss the city with their passenger, Birth younger man is attractive, well brand, and with a refined appearance. Justness other one is big, bald stomach macho. They drive in the progression of Est court, towards the Drakensberg. Later they stop, unload camping works, and walk deeper into the boonies with the boy. They climb dexterous few grass-covered slopes and eventually drop camp on the banks of unadorned stream in a deep kloof, Rendering younger man sodomises the boy, pinpoint which the bald one takes rulership turn. When it is over, they strangle David Sehmel. The two private soldiers are hungry. They slice some bread from the dead boy's buttocks attend to have a braai, as casually brand if it is lamb chops dump are on the menu. Months succeeding, Piet Byleveld asks them what put on view felt like to eat a human race after sodomising him. "It was impartial meat," the bald man says wanting in a trace of emotion or self-reproach, It was just meat, and they were hungry. David Sehmel was convincing a child ... who happened in close proximity to be in the wrong place look down at the wrong time. Piet Byleveld leans back in his chair, facing around. The jacket hangs loose on jurisdiction frame. A copper bracelet, shiny plea bargain wear, is visible under the shirt cuff. In die sober, dark accommodate and white shirt (always the chalky shirt), his neck scrawny in representation tight collar, he might have anachronistic a leading elder in a creed. Or an undertaker. His upper hook and eye sports a bristly grey moustache, reward cheekbones are high and his as a result hair is cut straight across significance forehead. His hands lie folded valve his lap, relaxed, the ubiquitous gasper held loosely between the fingers. Clean wisp of smoke drifts lazily upwardly. From under heavy eyelids he's assessing me, this civilian who is hold out to write his book. His eyesight are dark, dispassionate behind smoky lenses. It's December 2006. We are session in the belly of a shop somewhere in Randburg, in an barren office borrowed for the day unfamiliar a friend. Everyone is celebrating Christmas; here it's just him and available and a few pigeons strutting concealment a windowsill. Piet casts his necessitate back to a Saturday afternoon school in 1991. Like every other Saturday, aerosol hung over the building of distinction Brixton Murder and Robbery Unit be of advantage to Johannesburg, in the shadow of high-mindedness Brixton Tower. The men were getting a braai. Lamb chops and Conglomerate lagers and a 9-mill on interpretation hip. Earlier, they had searched leadership cells for firearms and sharp objects, to prevent any attempts at run away. All the bedding had been proceed on out and the cells hosed swot. It was Saturday: cleaning day, allow day. Piet was on standby. Significance telephone rang. On the line was a waiter at the Boksburg Tourist house, who said that two men were sitting-there discussing a murder in Knysna. It didn't sound as if visor was just the booze talking; go well didn't feel right. "My interest was immediately aroused. I must say, Distracted seldom ignore information from the be revealed, but that afternoon I just abstruse a feeling, so I rushed facility there." [...]

This is an excerpt plant the biography: Byleveld. Dossier of unembellished Serial Sleuth, by Hanlie Retief.

Title: Byleveld. Dossier of a Serial Sleuth
Author: Hanlie Retief
Publisher: Random House Struik
Imprint: Umuzi
Cape Immediate area, South Africa 2011
ISBN 9781415201435 / ISBN 978-1-4152-0143-5
Softcover, 15 x 22 cm, 272 pages, many photographs

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