{"id":11528,"date":"2013-11-05T08:41:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T08:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11528"},"modified":"2013-11-05T08:41:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T08:41:17","slug":"second-burnt-corpse-of-teenager-revenge-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11528","title":{"rendered":"Second burnt corpse of teenager ‘revenge killing’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"eldopark\"<\/a>The gruesome murder of an Eldorado Park teenager at the weekend appears to be a revenge killing for another girl\u2019s death nine months ago.<\/p>\n

Sandy Maharla\u2019s killing bears striking similarities to the rape and murder of Micaela Manneson, who was found in a stretch of veld in Nancefield in February. Little more than charred bones were left after her corpse was surrounded with tyres that were set alight.<\/p>\n

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Jonathan Maharla was charged and convicted of Micaela\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n

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Maharla\u2019s 18-year-old sister was found murdered on Sunday morning in the veld at Eldorado Park, south of Joburg, her body burnt almost beyond recognition.<\/p>\n

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Her remains were found just a few kilometres from where Micaela\u2019s body was found in February.<\/p>\n

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And now The Star has learnt that the prime suspect in Sandy\u2019s killing is allegedly one of Micaela\u2019s relatives \u2013 who was detained by police on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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When Sandy had not returned hours later, her family started to worry, said her father Craig Marie.<\/p>\n

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By midnight, her parents were frantic and visited the local police station to file a missing person report.<\/p>\n

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But when officers at the station were told that the missing person was 18 years old, they allegedly laughed it off, saying it was likely she was out partying.<\/p>\n

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By Saturday morning, the family had formed a search party, visiting her friends and relatives to try to find her.<\/p>\n

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It was only after a failed search that police at Eldorado Park were willing to open a case.<\/p>\n

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Her corpse had been dumped in an area containing mounds of rubbish.<\/p>\n

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Discarded jeans, manure, plant clippings and other refuse surrounded her bruised and burnt body. Just centimetres away lay a package for a \u201cLove Me!\u201d baby doll.<\/p>\n

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On Monday, distraught family members were trying to make sense of what had happened to the high school pupil they described as a shy girl who found her identity when she sang.<\/p>\n

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Dozens of neighbours, relatives and friends visited her family home on Monday morning, but the sense of anguish was most visible on the face of her father, Craig Marie. – The Star<\/p>\n

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The gruesome murder of an Eldorado Park teenager at the weekend appears to be a revenge killing for another girl\u2019s death nine months ago. Sandy Maharla\u2019s killing bears striking similarities to the rape and murder of Micaela Manneson, who was found in a stretch of veld in Nancefield in February. Little more than charred bones … Continue reading “Second burnt corpse of teenager ‘revenge killing’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[7291,7290,7292,7293],"class_list":["post-11528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-eldorado-park-teenager","tag-gruesome-murder","tag-revenge-killing","tag-tyres-that-were-set-alight"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/eldopark.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11530,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11528\/revisions\/11530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}