Taliep Petersen Murder: Someone Close?
Someone Close?
Right from the beginning, Taliep’s family insisted that he must have known his killers.
“There is something very sinister about this. He would not let any strangers into the house so late at night,” his step daughter-in-law, Maatoema Groenmeyer said the day after the murder.
Petersen’s well-secured home was usually monitored by surveillance cameras, but not on the night of his murder. It had been switched off.
“It’s so strange because Taliep was very security-conscious. He never switched it off before,” Taliep’s sister said.
Police also suspected that Petersen knew his killers, because he had opened the front door despite his habit of refusing to admit visitors late at night.
Even Taliep’s father said: “The person who was at the door must have been without a balaclava, because (Taliep) trusted him. (The attackers) must have pulled their balaclavas on once inside.”
The family of entertainer Taliep Petersen also apparently recognised his three masked killers from their car, clothing and voices, according to a police source.
They also said that the killers had at first mistaken Petersen’s stepson Achmat Gamieldien for the entertainer, and threatened to shoot him as he stood holding his baby.
The source further commented that it was believed that his killers followed him home from the 21st birthday party he had just attended for his nephew and niece.
Was it a relative, business colleague, friends of the family? Time would tell.
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