After a string of police botches, Captain Ben 'Bliksem' Booysen took on the Krugersdorp Killers' case in 2016. The state had failed to arrest those responsible for the killing spree which began in 2012. By the time Booysen took over, 11 people had been brutally murdered by a group calling themselves Electus per Deus.
The son of a miner, who was all too fond of the bottle and the fist, nothing about Ben's bleak upbringing put him in stead to crack one of South Africa's biggest murder cases. Yet driven by a deep sense of justice, Booysen made headlines when he arrested Cecilia Steyn, the mastermind behind the heinous killings, along with her five accomplices.
Written in collaboration with Sunday Times journalist Nicki Gules, Booysen divulges shocking details of massive police incompetence, while exposing sensational new information around the killers, their crimes and life in prison, in this twisted tale that's kept the nation on edge for a decade.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
After a 40 year career in the SAPS, Captain Ben Booysen achieved overnight fame as the "good hero" cop in the TV hit series Devilsdorp when he finally managed to pin down and arrest the infamous Krugersdorp Killers. A cop driven by justice, it took him 3 years of relentless sleuthing to get Cecilia Steyn and her crew behind bars. Ben is JHB-based.
Nicki Gules has had a long and illustrious career in the media, working at various news
publications, including City Press and The Times. She is currently Assistant Editor News and Investigations at the Sunday Times. Nicki is Joburg-based.
'On the Devil's Trail: How I hunted down the Krugersdorp Killers' is published by Melinda Ferguson Books, an imprint of NB Publishers
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