/ 2 March 2000

ALLEGED FAMILY MURDERER STILL AT LARGE

RUSTENBURG police are still searching for a man alleged to have killed his ex wife and two other people on Monday night. Hendrik Slippers, 38, shot and killed Hazel Slippers, 28, and her future in-laws, George and Merle Smith, 46 and 44 respectively. The Smith couple’s daughters, Wendy, 21, and Judy, 18, were both wounded in the attack and are both still in hospital. Slippers was last seen driving a green BMW in Naboomspruit on Monday night. At the time of the killings, Slippers was already facing murder charges for an unrelated crime, and was out on bail.