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Inthis gripping and sometimes terrifying account, former South African Police Service (SAPS) head profiler Dr Grard Labuschagne, successor to the legendary Micki Pistorius, recalls some of the 110 murder series and countless other bizarre crimes he analysed during his career.

An expert on serial murder and rape cases, Labuschagne saw it all in his fourteen and a half years in the SAPS. He walks the reader through the first crime scene he ever attended, his arrest of the Muldersdrift serial rapist, his experience as the head of the task team mandated to catch the Quarry serial murderer, his involvement with the Brighton Beach axe murders, and more.

To my parents: Thank you for all your love and support with my schooling. Your positive reinforcement and guidance in my schoolwork have helped me to do my best. You are my role models and my motivation to pursue my goals and dreams.

To my teachers: Thank you for inspiring me to do my best and for pushing me to challenge myself. I appreciate your feedback on my school performance. I learn a lot from you, and you give me room to grow and learn from my mistakes.

My ultimate goal is to become an FBI criminal profiler. I find the study of human behavior fascinating. Preventing crime from happening by analyzing behavioral patterns is something I am interested in doing once I become an FBI agent.

In this gripping book, former South African Police Service (SAPS) head profiler Dr Grard Labuschagne, successor to the legendary Micki Pistorius, recalls some of the 110 murders and countless other bizarre crimes he analysed during his career.

He walks the reader through the first crime scene he ever attended, his arrest of the Muldersdrift serial rapist, his experience as the head of the task team mandated to catch the Quarry serial murderer, his involvement with the Oscar Pistorius case, and many more.

Micki Pistorius is a South African forensic or investigative psychologist and author. She was the first woman in her profession and the first profiler in South Africa, working on many high-profile cases involving serial killers for the South African Police Service in the 1990s.

After graduating with a BA, Pistorius began working in public relations, which included writing press releases, before moving into journalism. Starting at a local newspaper, she moved on to working as a radio news journalist at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) in Pretoria, which also involved some work in television.[1]

After moving to Cape Town, she wrote for a women's magazine before being appointed to a managerial position in publications at the World Wide Fund for Nature in Stellenbosch. After leaving that job, she moved back to Pretoria and worked in public relations at Pretoria Zoo.[1]

Pistorius then applied for and was accepted into the psychology honours and master's programmes at the University of Pretoria, acquiring both degrees cum laude.[1] She started lecturing in psychology, earning a reputation for eccentricity.[2][3]

Pistorius joined the South African Police Service (SAPS) in 1994,[4] where she founded and headed the Investigative Psychology Unit (IPU)[5] also known as the Investigative Psychology Section (IPS),[6] as chief investigative psychologist.[3]

Within two years of this appointment, she completed her D.Phil, with her thesis: "A psycho-analytical approach to serial killers".[1] While writing her thesis on serial killers, the first in South Africa,[7] she developed her theory linking Freudian psychosexual development with serial killing.[8] She also compiled curricula investigative psychology courses.[1]

By 1997, Pistorius had trained over 100 detectives to investigate serial criminals, and two successors, including Elmarie Myburgh.[3][5] She said later that she was accepted by the detectives and worked very well with them, and the training developed by her was extended internationally.[9]

Pistorius was involved in more than thirty serial killer cases while at SAPS. Among the killers whose cases she worked on are Norman Afzal Simons, Moses Sithole, David Selepe, Stewart Wilken, Sipho Thwala, Velaphi Ndlangamandla, Cedric Maake, David Mmbengwa,[10][8][3][4][11][12] and Christopher Mhlengwa Zikode.[13]

In 2000, she resigned from the police with the rank equivalent to senior superintendent,[9] and joined a private investigation company.[8][1] She sought counselling when she realised that she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.[9]

Elmarie Myburgh, who was a founder member of the IPU/IPS, worked closely with Pistorius.[6] She has a degree in criminology and psychology from the North-West University and a diploma in criminal justice and forensic auditing from the University of Johannesburg, and as of 2021[update] was the only trained profiler employed by the SAPS.[14] As of 2022[update] Myburgh was still in the IPS, having been promoted to Lieutenant colonel.[15] She is the longest-serving member of the unit, and possibly the longest-serving law-enforcement profiler.[6] She has trained three police officers to take over when she retires in around 2031, when she turns 60.[16]

Grard Labuschagne, who had a PhD in clinical psychology and had formerly worked in a psychiatric hospital doing forensic assessments before joining the unit, took over from her as head of the unit, but said that he had much to learn from then Captains Elmarie Myburgh and Lynne Evans in IPU. He wrote a book, The Profiler Diaries (2020), about some of the cases he worked on.[6][17]

A UK publisher invited her to write an autobiography, which became her international bestselling book Catch Me a Killer (2000), after Penguin South Africa bought the manuscript and published it.[1][18]

Pistorius then joined the TV production company Zyron (owned by actress Sandra Prinsloo and producer Jan Groenewalt), and wrote scripts and co-presented two crime documentary series. She also featured in a number of local and international crime documentaries, including by the SABC, M-Net, KykNET, BBC, and others. Canal Plus in France aired a documentary Micki et le vent noir (Micki and the Black Wind) about her career as a profiler, and several international magazines, including Paris Match, featured articles about her.[1]

An 11-part true crime television series,[19] called Catch Me a Killer and based on her autobiography of the same name, was released by Showmax in early 2024. Lead writer on the series was Amy Jephta, and Charlotte Hope stars as Pistorius. The series was co-produced by the German production company Night Train Media, along with CMak (UK) and M-Net (SA). [20] Pistorius was a consultant on the series, and also provided emotional support to Hope during filming.[21] The series is directed by Tracey Larcombe.[9]

Pistorius opened a private practice as psychologist and consultant and wrote a few in-house pieces before making another turn in her career. In 2010 she enrolled for an honours degree in Biblical archaeology. She completed the degree within a year after researching and submitting 15 articles.[1]

Also in 2010, she gave expert advice as a clinical psychologist in a court case involving a woman who had committed sexual abuse on children under the influence of her controlling lover.[22] As of 2013[update] she was still consulting for South African government agencies.[2]

She is recognised as one of the world's foremost psychological profilers by people such as FBI profiler Robert Ressler,[8][7] from whom she had obtained training, along with Roy Hazelwood, in Dundee, Scotland.[9]

In her memoir, Pistorius wrote that she has "cryptesthesia", a form of extra-sensory perception.[23][2] She has also said that she has empathy for serial killers, who she says are "not monsters; they are human beings with tortured souls. I will never condone what they do, but I can understand them."[2]

As of February 2024[update], Pistorius lives on the island of Mauritius,[21] where she practises general and neuropsychology, occasionally consults for the legal profession as a forensic psychologist, and presents courses to companies on coaching managers and executives about emotional intelligence for managers, workplace security, and emotional safety at work. She has also lectured at the Open University of Mauritius and Middlesex University Mauritius, and in 2023 delivered a presentation on forensic psychology at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.[9]

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In this second instalment of The Profiler Diaries, former South African Police Service (SAPS) head profiler Dr Grard Labuschagne, successor to the legendary Micki Pistorius, recalls more of the 110 murder series and countless other bizarre crimes he analysed during his career. An expert on serial murder and rape cases, Labuschagne saw it all in his fourteen and a half years in the SAPS. Often stymied by a lack of resources, office politics and legal incompetence, Labuschagne and his team were nevertheless determined to obtain justice for the victims whose cases they were tasked with investigating.

Tracking down a prolific serial stalker, linking the murders of two young women in Knysna, assessing a suspect threatening to assassinate Barack Obama and apprehending a serial murderer of sex workers are just a few of the intriguing and often terrifying cases he covers in his second book, The Profiler Diaries 2: From Crime Scene to Courtroom.

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