Exclusive: Here’s a chilling trailer for the latest true-crime doc series out of South Africa.
Showmax’s The ABC Killer will look into the grim story of serial killer Moses Sithole, who was convicted of 38 murders, 40 rapes and six robberies, all committed in the space of just over a year, in broad daylight. “I thought the devil has come down to Earth,” says former detective Paul Nkomo.
The three-parter will go back 30 years – just months after Nelson Mandela had become South Africa’s first democratically elected president – to when rookie journalist Tamsen de Beer, working a night shift at The Star newspaper, received a life-changing call from a man who claimed to be South Africa’s most prolific serial killer.
Through repeat conversations, the two developed a disturbing rapport. “It was like a journey I was on with him,” says de Beer in the trailer. “We were bonded in a strange,...
Showmax’s The ABC Killer will look into the grim story of serial killer Moses Sithole, who was convicted of 38 murders, 40 rapes and six robberies, all committed in the space of just over a year, in broad daylight. “I thought the devil has come down to Earth,” says former detective Paul Nkomo.
The three-parter will go back 30 years – just months after Nelson Mandela had become South Africa’s first democratically elected president – to when rookie journalist Tamsen de Beer, working a night shift at The Star newspaper, received a life-changing call from a man who claimed to be South Africa’s most prolific serial killer.
Through repeat conversations, the two developed a disturbing rapport. “It was like a journey I was on with him,” says de Beer in the trailer. “We were bonded in a strange,...
- 6/23/2025
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
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