Introducing: Queen Havoc and Her Murder Cult

Cecilia Steyn has been called “the Charles Manson of South Africa.” The criminal mastermind helmed a quasi-Christian cult and convinced her followers to kill 11 innocent people, without spilling a drop of blood herself. Join host and filmmaker Kurt Kubicek as he travels to the mining town of Krugersdorp, SA to unravel this twisted history through exclusive interviews with the lead detectives, journalists who covered the case, and even the incarcerated murderers themselves.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
The citizens of Kruger's Dog are being terrorized by a
slew of brutal murders.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Why stab someone sixty five times in the chast This
feels like everybody had arn't yous giving murder. She was
born and bred with the thought that she has the
power to kill.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
I'm Kurt Kupachak, filmmaker, storyteller and host of the new
podcast Queen Havoc and her Murder Cult. It follows the
true story of South African ex Satanist and self proclaimed
which Cecilia Stein.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
She conditioned him to be monsters.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
This master manipulator used mind bending lies to deceive a
group of devout Christians. If you want to get out
of this, we will kill you.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
There was a car bombings, of burglary, hijacking, theft. There
was even a church that they said on fire.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Motivated by greed, power and revenge, Queen Havoc's subjects eagerly
obeyed her commands to carry out a four year killing spree.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
She actually copied the American Syraculls, a little bit of
Charles Manson. You can see a bit of Sons of Sam.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
The group evaded law enforcement for years.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
When she said she's going to the police. She ended
up date with fifty two stab wounds in her body.
She was constantly telling them, don't worry, we know the cops.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
The cult murdered eleven people in cold blood until detectives
finally hunted them down. The bating of the head board,
the wall, and the roof was full of blood.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
We are all so horrified by the idea that her
mother would sully her daughter in this way.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
In the world of murderous colts, if Charles Manson is king,
Cecilia Stein is queen, she.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Was telling people the Bible since she was go and killed,
but actually she was taking revenge.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
From eyewitness accounts to ride alongs with lead detectives to
interviews in prison with the killers themselves. We follow this
story on the ground in South Africa. This is way
that committed to killings.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
We can call off the search.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Body could have rive.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Every time you think you understand what's happening, you realize
that you're wrong.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
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