Louis van Schoor

Sybrand Jacobus Lodewikus "Louis" van Schoor (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈsibrant jaˈkuəbœs luədəˈvikœs fɑn ˈskuər], 1951 – 25 July 2024), known as the Apartheid Killer, was a South African mass killer, policeman, and security guard who committed murders between 1986 and 1989.

[2] It is believed that the total number of his victims was 39, all of them in East London, South Africa.

Thirty-two of the killings were described as "justifiable homicides" by police, while Schoor himself insisted that his victims were "criminals" whom he had caught in the act.

[3] Louis van Schoor was the father of Sabrina van Schoor, who was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison for hiring a hitman to murder her mother in 2002.

[2] Both were incarcerated in Fort Glamorgan prison before Louis van Schoor's release in 2004.