Serial Killer Gets Nearly 800 Years in 16 Slayings
From Times Wire Reports
A South African serial killer convicted on 16 counts of murder was sentenced to almost 800 years in prison. Lazarus Mazingane, 28, was convicted on a total of 74 charges, including rape, murder, attempted murder and aggravated assault, said prosecutor Gerrit Roberts.
“He won’t get considered for parole,” Roberts said.
Dubbed the “Nasrec serial killer” after the industrial enclave south of Johannesburg that he terrorized, Mazingane stalked, raped and strangled women from 1995 to 1998.
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