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All the victims were black and the youngest was just 12 years old. Some relatives are still searching for the graves. During a three-year bloodbath in the 1980s, private security guard Louis van Schoor killed at least 39 people in the South African city of East London. He was caught and arrested in 1991. With many of his killings signed off by local police as 鈥渏ustifiable homicides鈥�, he served only 12 years in jail. Recorded over four years, season 3 of World of Secrets is centred on the stories of lives which have been shaped by these atrocities. Now he is free, Van Schoor is ready to speak. He is adamant he is not racist, claims he has been scapegoated, and has been unfairly characterised as a "monster."

It has been 30 years since the white supremacist apartheid regime crumbled. The unresolved trauma of this time has cast a long shadow across a nation. In piecing together the story of Van Schoor, The Apartheid Killer will expose the disturbed past and racial injustices of South Africa itself.