It is June 1990. A customer browsing in a fabric shop in Midrand finds a slip of paper. On it, in a child's pencilled hand, is a message: she's being held by kidnappers, and her friend tried to phone but was cut off. The girl says her name is Anne-Mari.

Anne-Mari Wapenaar vanished in September 1989. And by June 1990, the only two people ever linked to taking her — Gert van Rooyen and Joey Haarhoff — had been dead, and cremated, for five months.

This is Part Two of The Missing Six.

We go into the 1996 demolition where police tore the House of Horrors apart brick by brick, vacuumed the roof, scanned the walls with sonar and sifted the soil, and still found nothing. We cover the note that shouldn't exist, the sons whose names resurfaced in courtrooms on two continents, 36 years of beaches dug and re-dug, and the theories about whether Van Rooyen and Haarhoff ever really acted alone.

Content warning: child abduction, sexual abuse and the murder of children. Listener discretion advised.

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Stay safe and stay skeptical.

In January 1990, a sixteen-year-old girl drugged and handcuffed in a Pretoria cupboard got herself out, flagged down a car, and cracked open the biggest child-abduction case in South African history.

This is part one of The Missing Six. We meet Gert van Rooyen, the churchgoing builder with a 1979 conviction the state ignored, and his partner Joey Haarhoff, the "motherly" woman who opened the doors a stranger never could. We name every girl, walk through exactly how the couple operated, and follow it all the way to the house on Malherbe Street and the day it came apart.

Content Note: this episode covers the abduction, abuse, sexual assault, and presumed murder of children. We tell it facts-first, victims at the centre, but we don't dwell on the worst of it.

Eish, That's Dark is a South African true crime and paranormal podcast hosted by Jess and Liz.

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No courtroom this week. Just four places in South Africa where the dead apparently never got the memo that it was time to leave.

We're covering the Uniondale Hitchhiker on the N9 in the Little Karoo, the famously haunted Lord Milner Hotel in Matjiesfontein, the heartbreaking love story behind the ghost at Kronendal in Hout Bay, and Charlotte - who has been tidying guests' rooms and ringing the bell for a room that doesn't exist at the Nottingham Road Hotel in the KZN Midlands since around 1902.

Turns out South Africa has way more going on in the paranormal department than we realised.

Eish, That's Dark is a South African true crime and paranormal podcast hosted by Jess and Liz. New episodes every Monday 🎙🎧