Julie Cruse 72 tortured to death in horrific hate crime: a year later the police have no leads...
22:13 Jul 17 2013 Pullens Hope, South Africa
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Julie Cruse, 72, tied up, tortured with hot iron all over her body, slowly strangled to death: Middelburg.There was nothing 'ordinary' about the horrific way in which 72-year-old Mrs Julie Cruse of Pullen's Hope Middelburg was murdered.
She first was trussed up like a pig, then she was tortured for hours with hot irons all over her body. And then she was slowly strangled to death. The ferocity of the murder indicates that this was a hatecrime - somebody who hated this woman so much that she was very slowly and painfully tortured to death.
The maid of Mrs Julie Cruse 72 reportedly was very badly traumatised when she discovered her employer's tortured, mutilated body in her home in Pullens Hope, Middelburg.
She was tortured with a hot iron and also with a bread-toaster. One can only imagine the pain she must have endured.
Yet a year later, her killers are still at large. Her exhusband Ron Cruse said four months ago that the information which was supplied to the then-investigating officer was not even followed up opn.
He had enquired at two police stations - in Hendrina and Middelburg, but 'could never get any answers', he told the Middelburg Observer's Daleen Naude.
On 2 June 2012, the maid of Mrs Julie Cruse 72 was very badly traumatised when she discovered her employer's tortured, mutilated body in her home in Pullens Hope, Middelburg.
And a year later, her killers are still at large. A new investigation officer Lt Salmon Shabangu, was appointed to handle the case, said Hendrina SAPS spokesman David Mbenekazi.
The Middelburg Observer's Daleen Naude writes that the murder-victim's maid Maria Magola found her employers' badly mutilated body.
At the post-mortem examination it was discovered that a kitchen-cloth had also been pushed down her gullet, and that she had numerous burn-marks from hot-irons all over her body. A bloodied cloth was wrapped around her neck and the post-mortem showed that she had died of suffocation.
The couple's children wanted to appoint a private investigator to try and find the murderers - but, said Mr Cruse, it's the police who have to do the job they were being paid for. A spokesman for the Hendrina SAPS, David Mbenekazi, said the case has now been handed over to Lt Salmon Shabangu. He confirmed that nobody was arrested and that they were 'looking for urgent leads'.
Now the community is being asked to report any relevant information they may have about this one-year-old case to Lt Shabangu. He can be reached at tel. 078 508 9029.
http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/middelburg/middelburg-news-general?oid=7505670&sn=Detail&pid=4979902&%E2%80%99n-Jaar-na-moord
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Me. Julie Cruse (72) is op 2 Junie verlede jaar in haar huis in Pullenshope vermoor. Haar huishulp, Maria Magola, het op haar werkgewer se erg vernielde liggaam afgekom.
Die moordenaars het haar onder andere met ’n strykyster en broodrooster gebrand. Haar hande en voete is agter haar rug met skoenveters vasgemaak en ’n bebloede serp was om haar nek gedraai.
Die lykskouing het gewys dat sy aan versmoring dood is. ’n Kombuislap is in haar mond en keel af forseer.
Haar eksman, mnr. Ron Cruse, het drie maande gelede gekla dat die polisie nie die inligting wat verskaf is, opgevolg het nie. Hy het verskeie kere by die polisie op Hendrina en Middelburg gaan aanklop, maar kon nooit antwoorde kry nie. Die egpaar se kinders wou al ’n privaatspeurder aanstel om die saak te ondersoek, maar mnr. Cruse was van mening dat die “polisie net hul werk moet doen.”
•Verlede week het die woordvoerder van die Hendrina Polisie, David Mbenekazi, gesê dat die saak aan lt. Salmon Shabangu oorhandig is. Hy het bevestig dat daar tot op hede niemand gearresteer is nie en dat daar dringend na nog leidrade en inligting gesoek word.
Daar word ’n beroep op die gemeenskap gedoen om enige inligting rakende die gebeure aan lt Shabangu deur te gee by 078 508 9029.
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http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/middelburg/middelburg-news-general?oid=7505670&sn=Detail&pid=4979902&%E2%80%99n-Jaar-na-moord
