DNA Tests To Establish Link In Northcliff Kidnapping, Centurion Burnt Bodies

The bodies have now been positively identified as belonging to the missing family.
 
Bodies found bound, burnt, gagged in Centurion

Four Northcliff, Joburg, family members were nervous and highly agitated as they approached the scene where the distinct outline of three burnt bodies lay smouldering in the veld in Centurion on Monday.
They reluctantly walked to the patch of ground where the bodies had been found, circling the dark patch of bloodstained ashes and condoms.
They intently looked for clues and anything that could give them an idea of the identities of the deceased or anything that could point to them as the relatives who went missing on Sunday evening.
Police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Kay Makhubele explained to them the only way to verify the identities and see if they were family members was through DNA tests.
“The bodies are burnt beyond recognition and there is nothing that police can work on except for DNA tests,” he said.
“We are waiting for forensics to identify the gender and the age of the deceased,” he added.
The family told the police that they feared the charred remains belonged to their loved ones.
The gruesome find of the three bound, gagged and burnt bodies was made by security personnel of a neighbouring housing estate.
The Copperleaf Golf Estate workers went into the veld to investigate a grass fire around 8am, and upon close inspection saw the bodies and called paramedics.
When the paramedics got there, they were able to see that the victims appeared to be two adults and a child.
“When we heard that the three bodies had been discovered in Centurion, we kind of already had an idea that something may have happened,” said Fuad Patel.
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https://joziweb.blogspot.co.za/2017/06/bodies-found-bound-burnt-gagged-in.html
 
Gonna go out on a limb here and say that this looks more like a hit than a robbery to me.
 
Greg‚ 57‚ Melanie‚ 51‚ and Rakiel Naidoo‚ 23‚ disappeared from their home in Northcliff after the robbery.

Police found three burnt bodies in a veld in Centurion on Monday morning.

On Tuesday police said no link between the two cases had been established.
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You what? :wtf:

blunomore said:
Such as what ?
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Such as a hit put out on the family.
 
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/20...-add-to-mystery-of-Northcliff-kidnapping-case

Greg‚ 57‚ Melanie‚ 51‚ and Rakiel Naidoo‚ 23‚ disappeared from their home in Northcliff‚ Johannesburg on Sunday night‚ creating speculation about whether their disappearance can be linked to the discovery of three bodies in Centurion.

The Times has reliably learned that a Toyota Quantum minibus taxi pulled into the driveway of the family home around 5pm on Sunday‚ and about 30 seconds after it arrived‚ the gate opened. Thirty minutes later another car pulled into the premises.

Roughly three and a half hours after the Quantum arrived‚ it left the premises along with the family's Mercedes Benz C250.

Following the departure of the two cars‚ the three family members have yet to be found.

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Clive Maher of Suburban Crime Prevention‚ the security company in the suburb of which the Naidoo family were clients‚ said one of their patrol cars were called out to the house on Monday morning following a call from a neighbour suspecting something might have happened.

He said the Naidoo family were only subscribed to the company as part of their patrol plan and not alarm activation.

"I know that the one phone was dropped in Albert's Farm and the other phone has been dropped closer to Ventersdorp side. We are trying to find those phones‚ but other than that there's not much more information I can give you‚" Maher said.

Maher said there were "definitely vehicles of interest and people of interest".
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Ninja'd said:
Just speculating as them killed away from home seems very strange. Dunno their business affairs
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I am not familiar with the facts. Does the evidence show that they were kidnapped from home and then taken to Centurion? Or were they maybe accosted elsewhere while they were away from their house?
 
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