This place, this Braamekraal, often feels to me like Tolkien's Hobbiton. Yesterday we had the illusion well and truly shattered. A neighbour, John, living in a cottage some 2km up the road from us was murdered in his own home, sometime between 10 and 11 in the morning.
We bumped into one of the investigating policemen around 4:30 in the afternoon just as we set out for a walk with the dogs; he was just waiting for the forensics team to get finished before he could go in with his tracker dog. They suspect that the killer came from Keurhoek village, about 5km away.
Update 8 Aug 17:50: We had a visit from the police Inspector this afternoon to let us know that the murderer has been caught. He returned to the scene of his gruesome crime in the middle of last night and burned the house down, presumably to destroy evidence, and the police tracked him to his own house and arrested him at 2:30 this morning. Much relief all round, here, I can tell you!
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