Hatting Pieter

Age 69. A gang of three armed attackers breached the farm security during the night and caught the couple completely off guard, launching a savage blunt-force assault specifically targeting Pieter Hattingh. The perpetrators beat him brutally over the head and body with heavy iron bars, and once he was brought to the ground, they repeatedly and viciously stomped on his chest, causing catastrophic crushing injuries and internal trauma that killed him immediately at the scene. His wife, Marita Hattingh, survived the encounter, though the physical trauma inflicted on his body was so severe that she explicitly prevented their adult son from viewing his remains.There were never any arrests or criminal convictions for this double attack, as the South African Police Service investigation went entirely cold shortly after the incident, meaning the three primary killers never faced justice.