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Jul 2024
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FROM THE VAULT - Episode 33 - Oscar Pist...

Wondery | RedHanded
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In the early hours of Valentine's Day 2014, 29 year old model Reeva Steenkamp was shot to death by her partner: South African Olympic sprint runner and double amputee, Oscar Pistorius. He still claims that it was a tragic case of mistaken identity, but the forensics and the messages Reeva left before her death tell a very different story. 
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