This week on Profiler Africa, forensic psychologist Gerard Labuschagne sits down with Peter Collins, a globally recognized operational forensic psychiatrist who’s spent over 30 years on the frontline of violent crime investigations.

Collins isn’t a “profiler”—he’s a psychiatrist who’s shaped how police understand, manage, and investigate high-risk offenders. From hostage negotiations and threat assessments to developing tools like ViCLAS for linking violent crimes, Collins has worked with agencies across North America, Europe, and beyond, including the FBI, Interpol, and Europol.

In this episode:

• Forensic Psychiatry in Action – How psychiatry supports investigations, policing, and public safety.

• Threat Assessment & Hostage Negotiation – Lessons from decades with Toronto Police’s Emergency Task Force.

• Linkage Systems – The creation of ViCLAS and its role in connecting violent crimes.

• Global Perspective – Collaborating with elite law enforcement worldwide.

• Beyond Profiling – Why understanding behavior runs deeper than just “profiling.”

With multiple national honors and a forthcoming Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Homicide Investigators Association, Peter Collins brings unmatched expertise to this conversation.

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This week, forensic psychologist Gerard Labuschagne takes us inside one of South Africa’s most disturbing — yet largely ignored — serial murder cases.

Between 2007 and 2009, 16 women and a child were raped, strangled and dumped in the bushveld around Westonaria and Lenasia. Most victims were unidentified. Many were unemployed, vulnerable, and invisible to the public eye. But not to their killer — Madumetja Jack Mogale.

In this episode:

From con-man prophet to convicted killer, this is the story of The Westonaria Strangler — a case that should have shaken the nation.

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For years, Profiler Africa has warned that cracks were forming inside South Africa’s law enforcement system. This week, those cracks turned into a full-blown fracture.

Explosive allegations by KZN Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi — pointing to a criminal syndicate operating within the SAPS — have forced the President’s hand, sidelined the Police Minister, and plunged the country into chaos.

In this episode, we strip away the headlines and ask:

• What does this mean for the average citizen?

• How do corrupt systems rot from within?

• And what happens when the institution meant to protect you is part of the threat?

Then:
Gerard Labuschagne takes your questions in a no-holds-barred Q&A — on crime, unsolved cases, and what it's really like inside the mind of a killer.

This isn’t just news. It’s a reckoning.

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