Original Sin: My Son The Killer is now streaming on Showmax,
The Showmax Original follows Thea Pretorius, the mother of Gerhard Jansen van Vuuren, who murdered his 25-year-old girlfriend Andrea Venter in front of her neighbours, security guards and CCTV cameras. He then escaped authorities in South Africa and Brazil for years, assuming three different identities and starting families with multiple women. After initially helping him escape, Thea slowly had to come to terms with her son being a killer. As she admits in the trailer, “He’s capable of worse things.” With Sarie 's Marteli Brewis hailing the true-crime documentary as “poignant” and Cape Talk's Sara-Jayne King praising it as “absolutely gripping viewing." F ormer South African Police Service head profiler Dr Gérard Labuschagne worked on hundreds of murder cases but says in the true-crime documentary, “This was definitely one of the more brutal ones that I’ve seen… This was definitely in the realm of what we regard as overkill.” He says Andrea’s story shows how hard it