Odendaal Jacoba "Koba"

Age 74. Regarding what happened and how she died, Johanna Odendaal had gone into town earlier that morning to visit friends and her cousin. She returned home alone at approximately 12:30, at which point she was ambushed inside the residence by an attacker whose sole motive was the theft of an old Nokia cellular telephone and 100 South African Rand. Her daughter, Marita Mather, returned home from work later that afternoon at approximately 13:10 and discovered her body in a pool of blood on her bedroom floor. The post-mortem and forensic evidence verified that she had been brutally assaulted, sustaining three distinct stab wounds to her neck from a sharp object, her face was severely swollen from blunt force, and she was ultimately suffocated and strangled to death with her own scarf. . On September 10, 2014, detectives arrested a 53-year-old male suspect identified as Paulus Dam. The criminal proceedings moved to the Western Cape High Court in Cape Town, where the legal trial concluded two years later. On August 10, 2016, Judge Nape Dolamo officially found Paulus Dam guilty and convicted him on charges of murder and house robbery.