The Locked Door: Oscar Pistorius and the Death of Reeva Steenkamp
Valentine’s Day, 2013. Pretoria. Four shots through a locked bathroom door. On the other side is Reeva Steenkamp, twenty-nine, a model and a law graduate. The man with the gun is Oscar Pistorius, the Blade Runner, the double amputee South Africa sent to the Olympics.
He says he thought she was an intruder. She was his girlfriend. A first court calls it culpable homicide. A higher court calls it murder. The sentence becomes thirteen years and six months. He is released on parole in 2024. She does not get a second verdict.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson tells the…
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