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Michael van Eck, 24 murdered in Welkom cemetery...cut in pieces buried in shallow grave Apr 2, 2011

April 2 2011. Single Afrikaner electrician Michael van Eck, who worked at Beatrix goldmine’s Nr 4 shaft, was apparently lured to his death in a rural cemetery outside Welkom – through a Facebook appointment with a girl he’d never met before. Some of his body-parts were ‘neatly amputated’, he was cut into pieces and his remains buried in a shallow grave. His head, right-arm and left-foot are missing. The gruesome murder has all the signs of a so-called muti murder ‘: the live harvesting of body-parts for resale to ‘traditional healers’.

His Facebook page shows that he had 32 online Facebook friends – some relatives, some males and he’d also recently made friends with women. His ‘comments’ also show that he had just recently ended a relationship and re-registered himself as ‘single’.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1636824774&sk=wall

Van Eck’s parents last saw him alive on Saturday-evening just before he went to an appointment with a Facebook female friend he’d never met before. After police traced them when they found his abandoned car at a Welkom taxi rank, Michael’s parents discovered in a large puddle of blood and his bloodied tshirt hanging on the gate of the cemetery on Sunday-morning. A police tracker dog named Xander, under control of warrant-officer Fanie du Plessis of Bethlehem, then found his torso and some body parts – half-buried beneath a pile of sand, at the rural cemetery beneath a tree. His head, right-arm and left-foot are missing. His torso and severed limb-parts were discovered by a police-dog metres from the murder scene in the shallow grave. Buried with him were his denims, but his underclothes and shoes are missing. SAPS sergeant Puleng Motsoeneng, said ‘Michael’s limbs were neatly amputated. Both legs were cut off at the knee. The left-lower limb has no foot.The right-lower leg with the foot attached was with the torso in the shallow grave. The upper-torso had several stab-wounds.’

The search for him began after police found his car abandoned at around 8am on Sunday with the keys in the ignition at a taxi-stand in Welkom by the police, who also arrested a black man who was getting into the car. His parents Naas and Henriëtte van Eck were traced and that’s when one of his colleagues mentioned that Michael would be meeting a ‘new girl-friend he’d met on Facebook’ at the cemetery just outside Welkom. The parents rushed in their car to the cemetery, came across a pool of blood and their son’s bloodied t-shirt, and the police dog-team was alerted.

Motsoeneng said there were drag-marks around a building several metres from the gate and that ‘condoms were found there’. Next to the building there was another very large blood-stain. A double-track trail leads to the trees and to his shallow grave. Michael worked as electrician at the Beatrix-gold mine’s Nr 4 shaft in Welkom and still attended the Welkom Gymnasium. He is survived by his parents and four sisters Natasha, Michelle, Bianka and Hendriena. His father and Hendriena insisted on going to the shallow grave to view what the murderers had left of their loved one.

The police issued a call for anyone of any knowledge, or who had seen anything, to call the SAPS duty officer at 082-301-3075
 
Here is a copy of van Eck's facebook page which has been removed
 
Just found this:
Pair in court after graveyard murder

April 7 2011 at 12:21pm

A man and woman appeared in the Welkom Magistrate's Court on Thursday in connection with the gruesome murder of a Welkom man whose body parts were discovered in their home.

The case against Maartens van der Merwe, 24, and Chane van Heerden, 20, was postponed to 20 May.

The matter was postponed for further investigations, said Free State police spokesman Captain Stephan Thakeng.

The young couple were arrested following the murder of 23-year-old Michael van Eck, whose body was found with limbs missing in a shallow grave at the Welkom cemetery on Sunday.

A police task team made an early breakthrough in the investigation and information was followed up which led the investigation team to a residential area in Welkom where Van der Merwe and Van Heerden were found.

:good job:Police searched the property and the missing body parts were found in a fridge, a cupboard, and buried in the garden.

Van Eck disappeared after he apparently went on a date on Saturday night and should have been at work on Sunday morning.

However, his employer later told the police that he did not arrive for work.

The employer said Van Eck was to have met his date - a girl he met on the social cell phone network 2go - at the Welkom cemetery. - Sapa

:heart love::heart love:
 
OK, just one more article on this crime and then we can put it to bed:

Couple kept head in their fridge

For Maartens van der Merwe, she was his “dark Goddess”. Now police investigators believe it was the young brunette, Chane van Heerden, who “lured” Michael van Eck to his horrific death.

On February 11, barely a month before the 23-year-old’s gruesome murder last weekend, Van der Merwe posted a photograph on Facebook of himself and his 20-year-old girlfriend embracing, with a caption that read moordenaars (murderers) - followed by an incongruous smiley face.

Van Eck’s murder, which police are investigating for its apparent links to Satanism, has shocked the gold mining town of Welkom, where he worked as an electrician on a mine.

He had been beheaded, his right arm cut off, and both his legs amputated at the knees, and buried in a shallow grave at the local cemetery.

Body parts, found by police at the couple’s rented home, were allegedly kept as human trophies by his suspected killers.

Van Eck had reportedly told his employer he was going on a date with a girl he met on Facebook last Saturday night, but he did not arrive at work on Sunday.

“We suspect it was the girl who lured the deceased to meet her at the Welkom cemetery,” said police spokesman Captain Stephen Thakeng.

On Monday, Van der Merwe, 24, asked Van Heerden’s father if he could marry her. In a Facebook post in February, she wrote that she missed him one morning, to which he responded: “Lady Blackmore – you part your lips, dead butterfly words spill out. They fall upon my mystic heart and stain it with sweet poison. Spreading the beautiful dark through empty veins. A dead, a life less dead. Now your thorns have pricked my skin, my soul bleeds into your night. Red serpent coiling viper, intertwined staring at inky stars on a paper white sky for you my love. xX”

On Wednesday, police pounced on the couple at their home, with Beeld newspaper reporting that they gave their full co-operation. Investigators found Van Eck’s head in the couple’s fridge, human remains in their cupboards - including bottled ears - and Van Eck’s right arm and a foot buried with cat remains in the garden.

“There were strange signs written on the fridge where the head was found.

“That’s why we want to investigate the couple’s involvement in Satanism,” said Thakeng.

Occult expert Kobus Jonker said: “They cut off the head because they believe once you’ve got the head, then you’ve got the person’s mind and will have more power.”

Van Heerden’s father told Beeld his daughter was a gifted artist and that he and his wife never had any reason to worry about her. When Van der Merwe asked to marry his daughter, there was no doubt in his mind that it was the right decision.

“There were never any warning lights that went on,” he said.

The couple appeared briefly in the Welkom Magistrate’s Court where the case was postponed to May 20.

Thakeng said police were continuing to comb the couple’s property and more arrests could be made. He attributed the early breakthrough to the work of the task team assigned to the case, which included the Hawks, as well as experts from Bloemfontein and Pretoria.

Investigators had confiscated the couple’s cellphones and computers as well as two “big knives” – now the subject of forensic tests to determine if they were the murder weapons.

Van der Merwe’s posts on Facebook ruminate on life and death, while a friend of the couple wished them a “bloody Xmas” last year.

In another obscure post on February 11, the self-employed Van der Merwe wrote: “3 years of reading, searching, studying, pondering, reading some more and talking to some interesting people finally payed (sic) off. Experiment was a success. Found an answer. Thanks to all the people involved. You know you who are ;-).” - Independent on Saturday
Michael with his matesHe's on the left in photo
 
I wish they'd fry those monsters that did it, or at least let them rot in jail the rest of their lives.
 
so , what country was that in? sounds like Holland???
 
One poorly written article (with convenient blaming of Satanism too) says that "the body didn't have a head, a right arm, or left foot and both legs were amputated at the knees". This got me thinking, so were the severed legs found along with the body? Because if they weren't, should both feet be missing? :/

I want his head so much...
 
One poorly written article (with convenient blaming of Satanism too) says that "the body didn't have a head, a right arm, or left foot and both legs were amputated at the knees". This got me thinking, so were the severed legs found along with the body? Because if they weren't, should both feet be missing? :/

I want his head so much...

THIS IS IN THE FIRST ARTICLE: His head, right-arm and left-foot are missing. His torso and severed limb-parts were discovered by a police-dog metres from the murder scene in the shallow grave. Buried with him were his denims, but his underclothes and shoes are missing. SAPS sergeant Puleng Motsoeneng, said ‘Michael’s limbs were neatly amputated. Both legs were cut off at the knee. The left-lower limb has no foot.The right-lower leg with the foot attached was with the torso in the shallow grave. The upper-torso had several stab-wounds.’
SO.......I READ THAT BOTH LEGS WERE 'NEATLY AMPUTATED' AT THE KNEE, THE LEFT FOOT WAS THEN SEPARATELY AMPUTATED. THE KILLERS THEN TOOK OFF WITH THE HEAD, RIGHT-ARM AND LEFT FOOT........BURYING EVERYTHING ELSE (INCLUDING BOTH SEVERED LEGS MINUS THE LEFT FOOT)...........AND YES THAT HEAD IS BEAUTIFUL!
 
Any updates? I want these two to die.
Yeah buddy, here's the latest:
Gruesome Welkom murder - case on hold

2011-07-08 22:14
Gory Welkom murder - accused in court
Murder accused 'loved Dexter'
Couple in court for body parts murder

Johannesburg - The couple accused of killing and dismembering Welkom resident Michael van Eck had their case postponed by the local magistrate's court on Friday, SABC news reported.

The case against Chane van Heerden, 20, and Maartens van der Merwe, 24, was postponed to August 5.

Van Eck's dismembered torso was found in a shallow grave in a Welkom cemetery at the beginning of April. Body parts belonging to the 23-year-old were later found in the couple's home in Welkom.

They would remain in custody until their next court appearance.

- SAPA
 
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