[MUSIC PLAYING] MAN (ON PHONE): It just
sounds like something bad is happening to her. WOMAN (ON PHONE): I
heard her scream, no. Stop it. MAN: And I heard some gunshots. POLICE OFFICER: Drop it. Whatever it is, drop it. That is not true
that I killed my wife. WOMAN: We know what
happened because the video tells us what happened. MAN (ON PHONE): The
camera doesn't lie. NARRATOR: This time, on
"Killers Caught on Camera--" In the UK, a five-year-old
boy goes missing in the middle of the night. As police desperately
search for answers. Was he dead or alive? Was he in danger, or had
he been taken by someone? NARRATOR: And in South Africa, a
woman is found dead in a field. There's going to
be a point of time where she realizes that they
don't intend to let her live. NARRATOR: As law
enforcement piece together the 11-hour carjacking
that resulted in her death. One of the assailants
tells him quiet or she dies. [MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: Bridgend Wales. Logan Mwangi was a
five-year-old boy who lived with his mother,
Angharad Williamson and stepfather, John Cole. He was a very happy,
polite, chatty, young boy. A little bit cheeky but was
very sort of affectionate and just had a real
thirst for learning. Everyone who came
into contact with him just thought he was a
really lovely little boy. NARRATOR: 5:45 AM. 31st of July, 2021. A frantic 999 call was made. Phillip Dewey is
court correspondent for "Wales Online." She woke up that morning,
had gone into Logan's room, and he had disappeared. She said she checked the
back door, and it was open, but Logan hadn't taken
his shoes or a coat. She said she was
absolutely petrified that he had left the house,
was somewhere cold and afraid. NARRATOR: After
Angharad called 999, John and his 13-year-old
stepson, Craig, searched the
neighborhood, as captured on a home surveillance system. Within sort of 10
minutes, police officers were on the ground,
looking everywhere, everywhere that Logan might have
gone to, friends and neighbors. And John and Craig were out
looking for Logan, as well. NARRATOR: The police needed
to get as much information as possible from the family. Officers asked them to
go back to the house. A police body cam filmed
Angharad distraught on the doorstep. Angharad was very
upset, as any mother would be in that situation. It was just about finding out
what had happened to Logan. Kirsty Bennett is a
criminal psychologist. When we initially have
a child disappearing, our first concern is
obviously where is that child and what's happened to them? And to do that, we have to
cooperate with the family, who are going to be able
to give us ideas about where Logan might be. They had the mother, who
was beside herself with worry, and they were having
to deal with the aspect of trying to reassure
her and calm her down. Not knowing what happened
to this little boy, there was a whole sort
of range of possibilities about what they were facing. Like, was he dead or alive? Was he in danger, or had
he been taken by someone? These were all sort of
questions that were still yet to be answered,
and the investigation to find out what happened to him
was critical in those stages. NARRATOR: Less than an hour
after Logan went missing, police located him just
a few hundred meters from the family home. Two police officers were
searching in nearby Pandy Park, along the River Ogmore, when
out of the corner of one of the officer's eye, they
saw what looked like a body floating in the River Ogmore. At that point, one
of the officers dived in, got into the river,
and retrieved the body. It was quite apparent
from the descriptions that this was Logan. NARRATOR: Logan was
pronounced dead at the scene. Angharad was given
the devastating news. The police's
initial impressions about what had
happened to Logan, obviously, it looked like he
had wandered into the river and had drowned. There was a lot of
unanswered questions, obviously, about how we had
come to be in the river, how he had left the house. And police were keeping an
open mind at this stage. His body was taken to
hospital and was then sent for a postmortum shortly later. NARRATOR: While the family were
dealing with Logan's death, investigators got to work
piecing together what happened. They started with a key
piece of body-worn footage recorded at the house when
the police first arrived. Coral Dando is a professor
of forensic psychology. She used to be a police officer
and understands detective work. They are very good
at what we refer to as situational awareness. So they'll walk into a
situation or a context and be very cognizant, very
aware of what's going on. They don't necessarily
acknowledge it, but it will all
have been taken in. What we actually see on
the body-worn camera is the washing machine going off. And that's a bit concerning,
because if they're asleep and they've woken up
to find Logan missing, your first step wouldn't be
to put the washing machine on. Unusual behavior when
your child is missing, and you're absolutely
traumatized. You're grief stricken. You're hysterical. NARRATOR: The contents
of the washing machine raised more questions. When police looked
inside the washing machine that there was bedding
that belonged to Logan that was being washed. NARRATOR: Their story
wasn't adding up, but the police still
needed more evidence. They spoke to a
number of neighbors to see if they had CCTV
cameras on their property that could be used to see
how Logan had left the house, whether he had left on
his own or whether there had been another
explanation as to how he came to be in the river. NARRATOR: Emi
Polito is an expert witness and video analyst. Luckily, the police
finds CCTV footage of a neighboring
property pointing directly at Logan's bedroom. NARRATOR: Dr. Vasileios
Karagiannopoulos is a leading figure in digital forensics. There is light turning
on in Logan's room during the night on
multiple occasions, and it stays on
for many minutes. NARRATOR: Angharad told
police she went to bed and slept all night. This footage suggests
that there are people awake and not asleep in bed. NARRATOR: Someone had been busy. Looking at the CCTV, they
find out that something else is going on. NARRATOR: Two figures
were seen leaving from the back of the house
in the middle of the night. They appeared to be carrying
something over their shoulder and walking up the garden
path and then walking in the direction of the river. At the same time,
we can actually see someone opening the
curtains in Logan's bedroom. Given that Logan's mom account
was that she's been asleep all night and there was no
activity in the property during the night,
clearly the police have now information to suspect
that something more sinister is going on. Detectives wanted
to re-examine the 999 call made by Angharad. The CCTV in the
daylight, now shows Logan's mom coming out of the
property, making the 999 call. There's quite an emotional
response from Logan's mom, which we would
normally anticipate, but she's not really crying. Obviously, the operator
was trying to reassure her, but she was having none of it. And it's very hard
to pin her down and get her to engage with the police. It starts to raise suspicions
as to why she's not giving the information being
asked of her when she's so concerned about
her child being missing. Obviously, the operator
was professional and trying to cope with the situation. But there just seemed
to be something very melodramatic about the way
she was acting and possibly, not quite ringing true. The time of the day is
quite interesting, as well, because Logan is five years old. You wouldn't expect him
to voluntarily leave the house during those hours. And because of that
time, we'd like to think the house is secure. It's locked. He wouldn't have access
to leave the property. And that wouldn't
immediately raise suspicions at 5:40 in the morning that a
five-year-old boy has seemingly wandered out of the house. NARRATOR: As suspicions
grew, the police had another look at the
footage of John and Craig out searching for Logan. People will go
incredibly far to try and cover up their
crimes, and search parties are not irregular. Pretending to look for them,
pretending to be distraught, all of these can be a
package of that sort of deceptive narrative
you're trying to spin, where you're trying to convince
other people that you had nothing to do with
this, and you're just an innocent parent who's
looking for their loved one. NARRATOR: The footage
in the kitchen became increasingly important. So when police arrive at
these sorts of situations, they have to tread a
really complex path, because they have no idea
whether on this occasion, Angharad, so Logan's mother,
is actually telling the truth or whether she is
acting out a trauma response or a grief response
to the terrible news that her child is missing. So they have to
be really careful. They want to gather
information from her, and in order to do that, they
need to just let her talk. Because at this point, there is
no concept or no understanding that he is actually dead. There are elements
about her behavior that you can see on
the body-worn camera footage that are quite
interesting to psychologists, such as myself. She's screeching. She's howling. She's saying an awful lot. But there are no details. There's no real information. There's nothing that
the police officers can really use in
terms of trying to seek out where Logan is. Are there any verifiable
details in her account? And there are very few. But of course, in
a trauma response, that might well be the case. So it's really difficult.
And she's also dropping down to her knees in a traumatic,
behavioral sort of way, which I think, she thinks is
how a parent in her situation should behave. You'd expect a
mother to be upset and even quite hysterical,
but this was sort of something different. One minute she was wailing,
crying for her baby. Next minute, she was acting
aggressively towards officers. Next minute, she
seemed to be in denial. People who feel
like they're not able to mask their true
emotions enough or not show the right emotion enough,
so they don't look sad enough. They don't look
concerned enough. You get someone leaning
more and more and more and almost becoming more
and more theatrical and more and more obvious, even though
what they're trying to do is the opposite. NARRATOR:
Investigators concluded that the nighttime footage
of the two figures leaving the house at 2:43 AM were
John and Craig, who carried Logan's body to the river. A minute later, in
Logan's bedroom, it was Angharad who turned
the light on and off and opened the curtains. It was enough to implicate
all three in Logan's death. The 1st of August, 2021. When the police officer
starts to arrest her, she turns from being
grief-stricken, hysterical to then
starting to lash out verbally at the police officer. How can you think this is me? How can you even assume
that I'd have anything to do with my beautiful child's
death, and so on and so forth. So we get a switch
straight away. She's pointing. She's shouting. And this behavior suggests
that she's now in panic mode. What she is now is
really, really cross. She's being quite aggressive. She realizes that
it's all failed. It's all coming down behind her. It's very self-preservation. She's very concerned
about what's going to happen to her
and her involvement in it, rather than Logan
and the circumstances surrounding his murder. One of the really
interesting things that emerges from the footage is
this clear performative grief. She listens to
what's being said, and then it kicks off again. It all starts again. NARRATOR: Angharad couldn't
have acted without John Cole. This police officer
here is involved in the arrest procedure. He will be talking, watching,
gathering information. He's happy to provide
a story, which seems to be well-practiced. NARRATOR: John's
13-year-old stepson, Craig, was also taken into custody. While in foster care, he
told his foster family that he wanted to kill Logan,
who he referred to as "the five-year-old." Here, we have body
cam footage of Craig, Angharad's boyfriend's
stepson, being arrested. He just stands there with
his hands in his pockets. He says and does
nothing at this point. The fact that a 13-year-old
boy was capable of taking part in such a brutal act was
just something that no one would ever have expected. When you're 13 years
old, you literally don't have the
full-sized brain that you will have later on in life. And you are going to make worse
decisions overall because you don't have as much brain. So holding children, who
especially are that young, as responsible as
adults is always one of those tricky things to do. And in most parts of
the world, we don't. But then we sometimes make
exceptions, especially for extreme things like
murder, because we assume even young kids can understand
the consequences of something that extreme. We can never point to
a single difference between someone who kills
people and someone who doesn't. But we can look at the risk
factors, and in his case, he had lots of them. He had an unstable
environment growing up. He had callous,
unemotional traits. He seemed to struggle
to adjust into families and to be part of
the family unit. He then was moved into
another high-risk situation. There's just a whole
series of things going wrong here for
this kid to mature in a normal, healthy way. NARRATOR: The results
of the autopsy on Logan revealed the extent of what
he endured in his home. He had suffered 56 injuries. Among the injuries
found on Logan's body was serious injuries
to his abdomen, which had caused a large
amount of blood loss. And there was two
brain injuries, which had been caused by
blunt force impact in the days leading up to his death. One doctor said that
these sort of injuries were normally seen in people who
had fallen from a great height or in a high-velocity car crash. NARRATOR: Further
research revealed the fatal injury
was a culmination to months of suffering. Logan, unfortunately,
has a history of abuse within the family. People have come forward,
who know the family, have recounted this abuse. About a year
before Logan's death, he was taken to
hospital by Angharad, who believed he was suffering
a dislocated shoulder. In fact, he had fractured
one of his bones and was in severe pain. Angharad later told police that
she had popped Logan's shoulder back into place after he
had fallen down the stairs and sent him to bed with Calpol. NARRATOR: It was also revealed
that a lack of communication with Social Services resulted
in a series of missed chances to protect Logan. John Cole had a bit
of a checkered past. He had convictions
for petty crime, like robbery and
burglary and battery. Because of Cole's
previous convictions, Social Services became
involved of Logan. He had his own social
worker, who sort of would look in on the family. NARRATOR: In the same month
that Logan was murdered, Social Services made one
of their regular checks on the family. When Social Services went to
visit Logan at home in July, he had contracted COVID. So he was isolated and
didn't get to see him, weren't able to visibly
check that he was OK. We should have had some
concern about how is he? What's going on with him? While they described
Angharad as overbearing, they believed that she loved
her child and cared for him. At first, suspicious of
John and his demeanor, they came to trust him. Eventually, Logan's
case was downgraded and there was no longer a
need for as much monitoring as there had been previously. NARRATOR: Shortly after the
visit from Social Services, Angharad and John
applied for custody of John's stepson, Craig. Like John, he also
had a troubled past. Craig became involved
with Social Services after he was assaulted by
his biological mother, who was then sectioned under
the Mental Health Act. He had been in a number of
foster families and in care. Craig had a history
within Social Services for quite inappropriate
violent behavior and attitudes towards his foster carers. He wanted to play murder
games with his foster sisters. He had been torturing
the family pet. And the carers were
quite concerned about how that behavior was manifesting. Playing really violent games
and fantasizing about murder or talking about murder,
those are the kinds of things in a 13-year-old that can be
indicative of something called conduct disorder, which
is what we call kids who sometimes go on
to become psychopaths or develop psychopathy. When you don't really feel the
same emotions as other kids, especially empathy. Four out of five of
the kids who have those symptoms will
grow out of them, and one out of five won't. John and Angharad
were applying for full custody of Craig. And despite Cole's
previous convictions and Craig's complex needs, he
was granted custody of Craig. NARRATOR: Five days
later, Logan was murdered. John Cole was sentenced
to life imprisonment with a minimum of 29 years. Angharad Williamson was
sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 28 years. More disturbing facts came out
in the trial about how Logan was treated by Angharad and John
Cole when he was in their care. Logan was made to do
press-ups when he was naughty and that John Cole would
sit over him and make sure he completed a
number of exercises in order to punish him. He was also denied food. When the family were having a
KFC, because of his behavior, he was told he wasn't
allowed to have food and was just given a
bowl of cereal to eat. Neighbors also described
seeing Logan being made to stand outside in
the cold with no shoes on as punishment. And at one point, the social
worker discovered that there was a burn on his neck. The reason given for this
was that he had burnt it on a hot bath tap,
but Cole later claimed that Angharad had placed
a hot coffee spoon on his neck. In my opinion, there wasn't a
shred of remorse between them. Angharad Williamson
continued to be self-pitying and maintained her innocence,
while John Cole pathetically looked at the floor and
claimed that he had nothing to do with Logan's death. And Mulligan was
sentenced to life detention in the Young
Offenders Institute with a minimum of 15 years. Usually, anonymity is
maintained for children because there is this assumption
that the things that you do in your childhood are going
to be different than the adult you're going to grow
into, and you shouldn't have to carry that
baggage with you forever because of bad decisions
you made with a brain that wasn't fully developed
in the circumstances where you were a
dependent, where society is really supposed
to be taking care of you. And so your failures are
reflecting on us, as society, not just on you as the child. And so the fact that
anonymity is waived is usually because
it's seen as to be so much in the public
interest, and it's balanced against the risk to the kid. And it's seen as more important
that the society knows who this person is than it is that
the kid is protected, which is really tricky. The CCTV footage
in this case was the main evidence which
led to the convictions of the three murderers. Without that, we would never
have known how Logan left the house, whether he
left of his own accord or whether the truth of what
happened, that he had been murdered inside the
house and his body discarded by his
stepfather and stepbrother. Again, the footage of
Angharad's behavior, as well, was also crucial. It showed that this
was not a mother who was scared for her child. It was someone who
was taking part in an elaborate
performance to cover up what had actually happened. When news of Logan's death
broke out in the village where he lived and
went to school, the reaction was one
of complete horror. The fact that a young,
innocent, five-year-old child had been found dead in
the river was horrifying enough. But to think that three people
had been arrested on suspicion of his murder was
absolutely horrifying for members of the community. The abuse and treatment
experienced by Logan in the months leading
up to his death must have been
absolutely horrific. He was a young,
small, innocent boy who was being abused and
mistreated by the very two people who were meant to love
and protect him and provide a safe home for him. And he was given
anything but that. He must have lived a
very lonely and painful existence during that time. He'll never be forgotten by
the community as a very sweet, young boy who just met
the most horrendous end at the hands of
those who should have loved him and cared for him. NARRATOR: Almost every
crime now contains some kind of digital fingerprint. Particularly for
homicide investigations, the inclusion of
video footage is considered the gold standard. Local law enforcement
agencies often rely on home security,
business, and street cameras to catch offenders who would
otherwise get away with it. Stellenbosch, South Africa. 2017. Aron Hyman is a journalist for
"The Times" and "Sunday Times," in the Western Cape. A very typical,
small student town. You have these mountains
all around you. These rolling hills with
vineyards, just this perfectly quaint little town. NARRATOR: It was also home to
21-year-old Hannah Cornelius. Hannah Cornelius was a young
student at the University of Stellenbosch. She was a wonderful, soft,
loving person to her friends and everybody that she knew. NARRATOR: Kirsty Bennett
is a criminal psychologist. Hannah was described
by family and friends as a very empathetic,
compassionate, young woman. NARRATOR: Hannah
had many friends, including Cheslin Marsh. He was studying theology. Also, just a young,
carefree man, trying to get
through his studies and enjoying life
as a young student. NARRATOR: 27th of May. 6:00 AM. A couple woke up to the
sound of someone in distress. The owners of
the house came out, saw that this young man
was in incredible distress and bleeding. NARRATOR: It was Cheslin Marsh. He had gaping
wounds on his head. He was in a terrible
traumatic and emotional state. They called the police. NARRATOR: Cheslin
explained that he and Hannah had been kidnapped
in her car by three men. Hannah, as a student, had
a blue VW Golf that she had inherited from her grandmother. He described Hannah's vehicle,
so the blue city Volkswagen, and he described
his four attackers. NARRATOR: Cheslin told them
that Hannah was still missing, but the police already
had information about a young woman. She was found at 6:30 AM,
on Saturday, the 27th of May, by workers at a nearby farm. NARRATOR: She had been
declared dead at the scene. She was found face down
and with severe wounds to her head and stab wounds
to the back of her neck. NARRATOR: With Cheslin's
help, the body was quickly identified as Hannah. Cheslin told the police
about the traumatic events of the night before. Friday nights in
Stellenbosch, it's bubbly. It's buzzing. They'd been out dancing. They'd been playing dominoes. They'd been out for quite a
while, having a nice time. Quite early in the morning,
Hannah and Cheslin had left a local bar, got into
the car, and Hannah had actually offered to drop
Cheslin back at his home. The two of them
parked in a parking lot. NARRATOR: Police looked at CCTV
footage from the night before. You can clearly
see this Volkswagen hatchback standing there. Hannah and Cheslin are in
the vehicle at this point. NARRATOR: Emi
Polito is an expert witness and video analyst. Four individuals are
walking towards the camera. We can start identifying
them in the sense that potentially, we are
looking at four males here. We can even get
to the point where we can talk a little bit
about the clothing ensemble and what they're wearing. They appear to
come back into view from a different direction. You can see the men
looking at the car while they're
walking past it, as though they're scoping it out. What is it that
these guys are doing at this time in the morning? You can see the men basically
approach the car from two directions, both
from the driver's side, where Hannah
Cornelius was sitting and from the passenger side. The driver's seat window
was slightly open. Thrusts a hand through,
gripping a screwdriver, and he puts the screwdriver
with the sharp end pointed at her chest. Cheslin then tries to grab the
screwdriver, and at that point, another assailant gets into
the back seat of the car and opens a flick knife
and points it at Cheslin. One of the assailants tells
him, quiet or she dies. I'm seeing random
flashes of light which are suspicious to
me, in terms of could this be some request for help? Hannah is pleading with
them and telling them, please take whatever you
want but please, let us go. At that point, one of the
men walks away, presumably with some of the stolen goods. And the rest of the three men
put Hannah in between the two front seats, and Cheslin
is in the back seat with one of the other
assailants, who is armed. And then they drive off. NARRATOR: The
assailants reassured Cheslin and Hannah that
they just needed their car. They just want
to drive somewhere, and then they're going
to drop them off. And they'll be let go. Everything will be fine. The next time we see Hannah is
about seven kilometers outside of Stellenbosch on sort
of a rural back road running in between farmland. It's quite a quiet place. NARRATOR: Cheslin
told police that they stopped at a gas station. Detectives source
the CCTV footage and found the blue Volkswagen
pulling in at 4:34 AM. We see a passenger
occupying the passenger seat. I think it would be quite
reasonable to assume that this is Hannah. Between the time that they
left Stellenbosch and the time that they arrived
at the gas station, the hijackers had taken
Cheslin out of the car and put him in the boot. One of the hijackers then
gets out of the vehicle, and at this point, he's
got Cheslin's bank card. He then walks to the
ATM, and he attempts to draw cash inside a
shop at the gas station. This is now a
considerable amount of time where this person is
attempting to withdraw money out of the ATM. And I'm seeing different
screens flashing and fingers doing all sort
of things on the keyboard. He kind of appears to
be leaving the scene deflated and disappointed. Cheslin, he gave the hijackers
the wrong PIN code to his bank card, presumably to
buy time for them or perhaps he just didn't
want them to steal his money. This CCTV footage
is the last time that Hannah was captured alive. It's clear at this point
that the men are becoming more volatile, more irate. They are angry and
aggressive with Cheslin. They take him to sort
of a forested area. They force him out of
the boot of the vehicle and order him to
lay his head down on a hard surface on a rock. And two men come and stand over
him with bricks broken in half. And at that moment, he
closes his eyes and he prays. And that's the last
thing he can remember. When they get back
into the vehicle, Hannah is there with three
men, who had taken her. There's going to
be a point of time where she realizes that they
don't intend to let her live, and she is going to die. NARRATOR: The men drove
Hannah into some farmland, where she was
sexually assaulted. When we look at
certain crimes, we may not have had
the specific intention of committing such awful
acts, like rape or murder. But sometimes we work on the
opportunity that it's there. It's available. We have a victim that
we can offend against. It's going to be really hard
to decide not to take part, because you run
the risk of losing your position in
the gang, maybe not being trusted by your peers. So once that decision
is made, you've really got to go with what
everybody else is doing. From there, they
took a large rock, and they put her
head on the floor. And they crushed her head
with this rock, twice. And then they stabbed her
in the back of her neck to make sure that she was dead NARRATOR: Hannah's
body was found and reported a few hours later. But the three men
did not stop there. The men drive around. They smoke drugs. They then kidnap another
woman and take her bank card from her, drive her
to a petrol station, and attempt to draw money. She is in the back of the
car, when two of the offenders get out and they withdraw
3,000 rand from her account. They look like
they're just going on about their normal day,
going into petrol station, withdrawing money. They don't look agitated. They look very calm. They look like they've been
doing it for a long time, and they're comfortable with it. It doesn't look like they
are improvising or panicking. Just normal business for them. It shows the lack of remorse
and lack of emotional attachment or even understanding
what just has happened. They drop her off
and release her, and then drive back
towards Stellenbosch. NARRATOR: Police issued
a "be on the lookout" for the blue Volkswagen
and three men. Police detective vehicle,
driving along a road near Stellenbosch, actually
spots the blue Volkswagen Golf and starts
pursuing it, leading to a high-speed car chase. The detectives pursued them and
chased them down a farm road. These people have got
no intention of stopping. They don't care about the damage
or hurt that they leave behind. ARON HYMAN: They basically
reach a dead end, and the men jump
out of the vehicle. You can see the detectives
chasing two men. At that stage, one of the men
had already been dropped off. And the detectives then
apprehend both men as they try to flee into a riverbed. NARRATOR: The two men
were identified as Geraldo Parsons and Vernon Witbooi. They are taken
in for questioning, and the police then
find out that these two men had been to prison. They have a criminal
history, and they are part of a prominent
South African gang. NARRATOR: The third man was
identified as Eben Van Niekerk. A fourth man, Nashville Julius,
was also arrested for taking part in the initial carjacking. Vernon and Nashville
gave confessions because the police had convinced
them that their friends were talking. And the police had
convinced them that they had credible cases against them. Those men are just
viewing her as an object. She means nothing to them. And there's no concern on their
behalf about how she feels, how she is experiencing
that moment, because it's about their
own gain and gratification. It's about October 2018
when the trial starts in the Cape Town High Court. Their demeanor in
court was stoic. They would often
smirk and laugh. And when Cheslin had to testify,
they tried to intimidate him in the witness stand. The four men were not really
taking things very seriously. They were laughing,
joking amongst themselves. We don't really see
them showing any remorse for the various crimes
that they've committed. For the family, that's horrific
to know that how they treated their daughter in her
last moments was awful, and they think it's a joke. NARRATOR: The three main
perpetrators, Geraldo Parsons, Eben Van Niekerk,
and Vernon Witbooi were given life sentences. They will spend
25 years in prison without the
possibility of parole. NARRATOR: Nashville Julius
was sentenced to 15 years. The CCTV footage was crucially
important in this case. Without it, they might not have
been able to piece together some of the key
details that basically tied the men to the crimes. And they might even not
have been able to verify Cheslin's testimony. NARRATOR: Cheslin Marsh
was left deaf in one ear. It's probably one of the only
positives of this whole story is that Cheslin
miraculously survived and that he went
on to live a life. He's studying law. He's married. He's got kids. It must take incredible strength
for a person to ever recover from something like that. NARRATOR: Hannah's family was
left with a lifetime of grief. Hannah's mother started the
Hannah Cornelius Foundation in a nearby underprivileged
community, which helps with early childhood
development for street kids and kids that come out of
difficult household situations. NARRATOR: A year
later, more tragedy for Hannah's family, when
her mother went for a swim in the ocean. She was swept out
at sea and drowned, but there's also
others who suspect that maybe the psychological
toll was too much for her and that she might have
taken her own life. The murder of Hannah
Cornelius had a big impact on South African society. Out of all the women,
and especially, young women, children who
are being raped and murdered in South Africa, Hannah's
case was, I think, particularly shocking
in its brutality. There were a lot
of conversations afterwards about women's
rights in South Africa, about how violent we are as a
society, about how patriarchal our society is,
how men view women. And I think there was
a lot of reflection from South African society. I think the courts
and the police were sensitized to
these sorts of cases. There was a lot of
public outpouring. I remember when
they were sentenced, the gallery was full
of people who had just come to watch the case. And they cried out in joy,
but also, I guess, in anger. [CROWD SCREAMING] The positives, I
guess, is the fact that we started
confronting, as a society, the underlying problems
that lead to men going through the criminal
justice system and coming out of the
criminal justice system after having served
time for the same crimes that they would like
to commit again. But we still have
so many lessons to learn from that,
because after that, there were so many other
women who were raped and killed in South Africa. [MUSIC PLAYING] [THEME MUSIC]
