In 2001, mass killings, rapes, hijackings, and armed robberies were frighteningly commonplace in the Cape Flats in South Africa. In 2005, the self-confessed killer Asanda Baninzi was handed 19 life sentences and an additional 189 years after pleading guilty to a long list of appalling crimes. We investigate the motivation for committing such crimes, and how the police tracked their man down.