{"id":49893,"date":"2016-05-31T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T07:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/49893\/who-murdered-igna\/"},"modified":"2016-06-08T08:48:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T06:48:43","slug":"who-murdered-igna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/05\/31\/who-murdered-igna\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Who murdered Igna?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody is still baffled about the senseless murder of Ms Igna Nortj\u00e9 on May 30 2012.<\/p>\n<p>One thing the police is sure off. This was not a robbery gone wrong, because the only thing which was taken from their safe, was a gas pistol.<\/p>\n<p>The gas pistol was found next to her body in a ditch near the Police Station in Verena. Her car was parked just a few metres from her body.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49894\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49894\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2016\/05\/16u25-2_41230.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49894\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2016\/05\/16u25-2_41230-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"The identikit of the murderer,\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/05\/16u25-2_41230-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/05\/16u25-2_41230-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/05\/16u25-2_41230.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49894\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The identikit of the murderer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The murderer forced Ms Nortj\u00e9 into her own vehicle, a BMW, and drove from her home in Sipres Street, Dennesig, to the ATM at FCM Total (Hendrina road).<\/p>\n<p>There he tried to withdraw money, but the transaction did not go through and he drove off to Stoffberg, where he again tried to withdraw money.<\/p>\n<p>Later a resident from Groblersdal and a petrol attendant at a garage in Groblersdal confronted a man when they heard someone kicking in the trunk.<\/p>\n<p>Read previous story here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/30186\/igna-se-angs-in-bagasiebak\/\" target=\"_blank\">Igna se angs in bagasiebak<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/11134\/ondersoek-lewer-niks-op\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ondersoek lewer niks op<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/16472\/gestolde-kar-red-vrou-se-lewe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gestolde kar red vrou se lewe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The suspect jumped into the car and drove off in the direction of Dennilton. The resident tried to follow the vehicle, but it was too fast and he could not keep up with it.<\/p>\n<p>Both the eye witnesses were shocked when they heard that the person in the trunk was Ms Nortj\u00e9 and that she was stabbed to death.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The first person to offer an award of R10 000 was Mr Tonie Etsebeth (from Titon Security). A few days later Ms Nortj\u00e9\u2019s father, Mr ST Potgieter, offered an award of R100 000 for information which may lead to the arrest of his daughter\u2019s murderer.<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Sanmari Wait offered a further R1 000 and Pastor Harry Knoesen another R10 000.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Any person who could help the police with new information, can call W\/O Steve Msiza at 013 249 8000.<\/p>\n<p>Read update here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Igna Nortj\u00e9 moord\" target=\"_blank\">Opvolg: Igna Nortj\u00e9 moord<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, four years ago, our town\u2019s well known audiologist was kidnapped from her home. Hours later she was murdered and her body dumped in a ditch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":49920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Daleen Naude","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[4720,4676,4721,4722,4717,4866,2040,4719,844,1088,4718,2241],"class_list":["post-49893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-body-dumped","tag-dabger","tag-ditch","tag-four-years-ago","tag-igna-nortje","tag-igna-nortje-moord","tag-kidnapped","tag-murdered","tag-stolen","tag-warning","tag-well-known-audiologist","tag-woman"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["body dumped","dabger","ditch","four years ago","Igna Nortj\u00e9","Igna Nortj\u00e9 moord","kidnapped","murdered","stolen","warning","well known audiologist","woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}