✝️ Elizabeth Martincich, age 29 – March 12 1993, Worcester, South Africa 🇿🇦💔
No further information about Elizabeths life is currently available.
Elizabeth was a victim of the „Cape Town Prostitute Killer“, also known as the „Cape Town Strangler“. He is an unidentified South African serial killer who fatally strangled 16 prostitutes and three domestic workers in Cape Town between 1992 and 1996. His modus operandi consisted of picking up his victims on rainy nights, fatally strangling them in his car, and dumping their bodies in preselected locations. Although none of the victims were raped, the perpetrator tried to stage them to make it look as if they were.
After the killings were linked, prostitutes gave police their fingerprints and had their photographs taken so that they could be easily identified if they were murdered. Law enforcement personnel also issued posters around the area with emergency phone numbers. As a further precaution, pimps and prostitutes wrote down the registration numbers of every vehicle that picked them up. Nevertheless, seven more victims were murdered.