Early in the afternoon of April 16, 2000, a 77-year-old farmer named John Cross and his 76-year-old wife were returning home from church in the province of Limpopo, South Africa. When they arrived, they were immediately attacked by two men who had broken into their house. The men shot the elderly woman three times, but she didn’t die immediately. So to torture her, for roughly 25 minutes, the assailants poured boiling water on top of her. When it came time to murder John Cross, the attackers tied him up, shot him several times, and poured boiling water down his throat for roughly five hours.
In the end, the killers made off with a few thousand dollars’ worth of household items. And when they were caught, they weren’t repentant at all. Afterwards, when she was asked about the motive, the Crosses’ daughter said, “I think it’s hatred. It must be race hatred. I think they did it for satisfaction.”
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