Moses Sithole

Moses Shithole (1964 - ) is a South African serial killer who committed the "ABC Murders", so named because they began in Atteridgeville, continued in Boksburg and finished in Cleveland, a suburb of Johannesburg.

On December 5, 1997, Sithole was sentenced to 2,410 years for the murders of 38 people committed between 1994 and 1995, along with 40 rapes and various lesser offenses.

That adds up to 12 years for each of the 40 rapes, 50 years for each of the 38 murders, and another five years for each of the six robberies. His sentences do not run concurrently.There will be no possibility of parole for at least 930 years.

He is incarcerated in C-Max, the maximum security section of Pretoria Central Prison.

He was reported in 2000 to have AIDS.

Sources

• The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Michael Newton, p207 ISBN 0-8160-3979-8
• A Time to Kill By Philip von Nekerk Maxim, Oct. 2000
• Graveyard By Martin Ströhm - Crime Library