Police find fifth woman's body near Kempton Park as search for missing jogger continues

eNCA reports that a fifth woman’s body has been found in the Kempton Park area, in a case that now covers the deaths of five women whose bodies were recovered in the same part of Gauteng. The discovery was made on Monday. The original report is at eNCA.

The four earlier deaths were recorded in the Kempton Park vicinity over the past two months. The identity of the woman found on Monday, and the circumstances of her death, have not yet been established.

Police investigators were on their way to the scene as the new case was opened. The South African Police Service’s national multidisciplinary team was also due to meet on Monday, according to the same reporting.

A national team, and a missing jogger

The multidisciplinary team is the structure the SAPS uses when cases in one area begin to look connected or when the volume of work outruns a single station. Its involvement in Kempton Park means the investigation is being run at national level rather than left to local detectives alone.

The same operation is searching for Elizabeth “Tsontso” Moselakgomo, the jogger who left her home last week for an afternoon run and did not return. Her disappearance has added to the anxiety in the area, and the search for her has continued alongside the work on the five deaths.

That two lines of investigation are running at once, one into women found dead and one into a woman missing, is the fact residents of Kempton Park are living with. It is also why the meeting of the national team on Monday matters beyond the paperwork.

What has not been established

The woman found on Monday has not been named. How she died has not been confirmed. Whether the five deaths are linked to one another has not been established either, and police have not said that they are.

What the record does show is that four bodies were found in the same vicinity in roughly eight weeks, and that a fifth was found on Monday. That is the number that has changed the scale of the police response.

The SAPS has not yet released a statement on the identity of the deceased or on the outcome of Monday’s meeting. Families waiting on identification, and residents who have been following the search for Moselakgomo, are waiting on the same two answers.

The Enquirer will report the outcome of the national team’s meeting and any further statement from the SAPS as it is released.

Source: eNCA. Read the original item.