Her killers are in prison, but ‘questions remain’ about Betty Ketani’s death
ALMOST 20 years after her murder, the weird tale of what happened to Johannesburg restaurant chef Betty Ketani is coming full circle, says journalist Alex Eliseev. However, lots of questions remain.Eliseev’s book, Cold Case Confession, sets out one of SA’s more bizarre criminal investigations and trials. It launches on Tuesday, just a few days after Carrington Laughton was sentenced to an effective 30 years in jail for murdering Ketani in 1999. Carl and David Ranger, accomplices, were sentenced to four years each."It is, as one of the prosecutors described it, a ‘one in a million case’," Eliseev tells BDLive on Monday. "It’s the freakishly perfect alignment of the stars that gets to me, 5mm either way and none of this would have happened."Between the winter of 1999 and 2012, Laughton and the Ranger brothers, plus Dirk Reineke, Conway Brown and Paul Toft-Nielsen thought they had got away with murder. On March 31 four years ago a family in Kenilworth, Johannesburg, ripped up a carpet ...
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