Bethlehem’s rampaging shooter
Jun 24, 2022
2 minutes
On 26 November 1931, Cornelius van Heerden turned the town of Bethlehem in the eastern Free State into a killing field, shooting dead four people and wounding four more before committing suicide.
The motivation for the killings seems to have been embedded in Van Heerden’s pathological sense of persecution, while the cost of his actions can be measured by
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