Task team investigates murders of two women found in Theunissen

A police task team is investigating the murders of two women whose bodies were found in separate abandoned buildings in Theunissen over the weekend.

The Free State police statement says officers attended the first scene in Le Roux Street at about 03:40 on Saturday, 7 November. A neighbourhood watch member directed them to the building, where a woman was found dead.

The second scene was reported in Masilo on Sunday, 8 November, at about 18:00. Police said another woman’s body had been discovered in an abandoned building.

The multidisciplinary team is led by the Provincial Serious and Violent Crime Unit. The statement says the motives remain unclear and no arrests had been made. It does not establish that the two cases are linked.

Anyone with information can contact Crime Stop on 08600 10111 or use the MySAPS App. The official statement says information will be treated confidentially.

The discoveries occurred on 7 and 8 November; this is an update on the police investigation, not a report of two newly discovered deaths on Monday.

Archive photograph: the South African flag, photographed on 31 October 2008, not the victims or a Theunissen crime scene. Photo: Chris Eason / Wikimedia Commons. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_South_Africa.jpg . Licence: CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ . Cropped and resized for display.