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The Honeymoon Murder - Part One · Murder Files Unsealed

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  A devastating carjacking takes a heart wrenching turn as a young couple's love story ends
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  in tragedy, with the newlywed bride being brutally murdered and her husband becoming the
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  primary suspect. Kyalitica, a township located on the southeastern outskirts of Cape Town,
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  is situated in the middle of the Cape Flats. This area spans nearly
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  two hundred square miles and is surrounded by the Table Mountain Range to the west,
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  the Hottentot Holland Range to the east, and the coast of False Bay
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  to the south. Despite being the fastest growing township in South Africa, Kayelica
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  is also one of the poorest. The majority of its dwellings are makeshift shanties
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  constructed from discarded materials such as carboard, tar, paper, tin, and
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  plywood. These structures are tightly packed together amidst the sand dunes. Due to
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  safety concern outsiders rarely venture into kaya Leica at night. On Saturday, November
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  thirteenth, twenty ten, at approximately eleven thirty pm, Symbernile Matakazi, a
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  thirty three year old government employee, encountered an unfamiliar man standing on his doorstep.
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  This occurrence immediately signaled that something was a miss. The man, who
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  appeared to be of Indian descent, unlike Matakazi and the majority of kaya Leitcha's
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  residents, was dressed in an expensive looking dark suit with an open collared shirt.
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  He had been frantically knocking on doors along the Sandy Road, searching for
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  help in the darkness. When Matokazi inquired about the reason for his distress,
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  the man asked if there was a nearby police station where he could report a
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  car hijacking. Matakazi promptly reached for his phone and asked for details about the
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  car's location. The visibly distraught streit could only mumble that he didn't know.
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  He was also uncertain about the car's model. However, by the time the
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  officers from the South African Police Service arrived, the man had regained some composure
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  and was able to recount his story. The man introduced himself as Shrian Dewany,
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  a thirty year old businessman from Bristol, England. He had arrived in
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  Cape Town the previous day with his wife Annie Dewany for their honeymoon. Earlier
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  that evening, the couple had embarked on a private tour of the townships east
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  of the city with a driver. This choice of activity was rather unconventional for
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  affluent tourists like the Duanis. The townships surrounding Cape Town, including Kayalicia,
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  seemed worlds apart from the luxurious waterfront hotel where they were staying, which cost
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  dollar five hundred per night. Around eight o'clock in the morning, the minivan
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  became the center of attention for the police as the wind blew sand from the
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  nearby dunes. The officers opened the rear right side door and peered inside.
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  They discovered the lifeless body of a young woman, drenched in blood, lying
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  across the back seat. She had been shot at close range in the neck,
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  and the bullet fired from a nine millimeter pistol was lodged in the seat.
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  The blood had soaked through the upholstery and seeped out of the door,
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  forming a pool on the asphalt. Following the discovery of Anidiwani's body, forensic
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  experts from the police were called to the scene in Kayeliticia. They uncovered a
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  crucial piece of evidence, a thumb print and fingerprint found on the left fender
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  of the mini van. The investigators swiftly traced these prints back to a twenty
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  six year old unemployed laborer named Xolile Mungheni. Mangeni had previously been arrested five
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  years ago on suspicion of killing a man during a bar fight, Although the
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  charges were later dropped. However, his fingerprints remained in the National Police database.
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  The police located Mungeni, a slender man who wore a gold ring in
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  his right ear, in a shack near his grandmother's modest home in Kayelitsha,
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  just a few hundred yards away from where the Volkswagen had been abandoned. Mungeny
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  was found lying in bed with a man and two women after a night of
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  partying. The police woke him up, informed him of his rights, and
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  took him into custody. During a search of the shack, they discovered a
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  cell phone wedged between the mattress and bed frame. To whom does this cell
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  phone belong, one of the investigators asked, as stated in a court affidavit,
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  it belongs to the taxi driver. Mungheni replied. In the early evening
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  of October nine, nineteenth twenty ten, three and a half weeks prior.
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  A gathering of three hundred guests took place on the lawn overlooking Powai Lake,
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  a reservoir from the raj Era situated in the hills outside Mumbai. Annie Dewani's
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  uncle, brother and two cousins carried her on a golden sedan chair under the
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  light of a full moon. Ami Denborg, her older sister, thought she
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  had never looked more beautiful. Annie was dressed in an emerald green bridal sari
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  with gold brocade. Her wrists were adorned with gold and silver bangles, and
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  she wore a gold and jade necklace around her neck. Stepping down from the
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  sedan chair, she made her way to the mandap, a canopied platform made
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  of carved teakwood decorated with mango and banana leaves, palm fronds, and cocoanuts.
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  Shrienne, in his beige wedding suit and turban, awaited her behind