Active for 1 year
(2005) in South Africa

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6. Childhood
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13. 14 Books Written About Jimmy Maketta
14. 4 External References
15. Internal References

Jimmy Maketta a South African serial killer and rapist known as the Jesus Killer. Maketta pleaded guilty to and was convicted of sixteen murders and nineteen rapes committed over a nine-month period in 2005. Maketta had called authorities twice to tell where his victim's body could be located. In 2005, Maketta was arrested in Constantia following a reign of terror in the Philippi farmlands in Cape Town. In 2007, Jimmy Maketta was sentenced to life imprisonment at a prison in Cape Town, South Africa.

Profile Completeness: 49%

Books that Mention Jimmy Maketta

Kevin Smith

Serial Killer Rapists

Patricia Cornwell

Portrait Of A Killer: Jack The Ripper -- Case...

Dr. Helen Morrison

My Life Among the Serial Killers

Peter Vronsky

Female Serial Killers

M. William Phelps

Every Move You Make

Barry Bateman

Behind the Door: The Oscar Pistorius and Reev...

Jim Supica

Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson

Jason Krueger

The Top Serial Killers of Our Time (Volumes 1...

14 Books that mention Serial Killer
Jimmy Maketta

ISBN10	Book Title	Author	Killers Mentioned	Killers
1733630619	Serial Killer Rapists	Kevin Smith	266 Total Including Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour	266
1101204443	Portrait Of A Killer: Jac...	Patricia Cornwell	3 Total Including Aaron Kosminski	3
0061809594	My Life Among the Serial...	Dr. Helen Morrison	33 Total Including John Wayne Gacy	33
0425213900	Female Serial Killers	Peter Vronsky	30 Total Including Marybeth Tinning	30
0786024976	Every Move You Make	M. William Phelps	12 Total Including Joachim Knychala	12
1447267869	Behind the Door: The Osca...	Barry Bateman	Jimmy Maketta	1
1440245630	Standard Catalog of Smith...	Jim Supica	Jimmy Maketta	1
1489569006	The Top Serial Killers of...	Jason Krueger	6 Total Including Gennady Mikhasevich	6
1291006168	The Glencaple Murder's	Paul Weightman	61 Total Including Serhiy Tkach	61
1305446348	Serial Murderers and Thei...	Eric W. Hickey	27 Total Including Paul John Knowles	27
149096679x	100 of the Most Famous Se...	Alex Trost	17 Total Including Serhiy Tkach	17
1627310142	The Gates of Janus	Ian Brady	14 Total Including Very Idham Henyansyah	14
1448110491	Profiling a Killer	Laura Richards	5 Total Including Levi Bellfield	5
0593074831	Profiling a Killer	Laura Richards	6 Total Including Levi Bellfield	6

Jimmy Maketta (born 1964/5) is a South African rapist and serial killer who in 2007 pleaded guilty and was convicted on 16 counts of murder, 19 counts of rape. A state psychiatrist described him as a psychopath.Maketta described how, from April to December 2005, he would attack farm labourers from a hill on Friday evenings near the township of Philippi, Cape Town.

External References

1. Q512904 on www.wikidata.org, Retrieved on Oct 17, 2018.
2. Jimmy Maketta on en.wikipedia.org, Retrieved on Oct 17, 2018.
3. Juan Ignacio Blanco, Jimmy MAKETTA on murderpedia.org, Retrieved on Oct 17, 2018.
4. una cupido, Saak is baie soos dié van‘Jesus killer’ on www.son.co.za, Retrieved on Apr 29, 2019.

Internal References

Jimmy Maketta is included in the following pages on Killer.Cloud the Serial Killer Database

1. #6 of 20[ Page 1 ] of Serial Killers active in South Africa
2. #47 of 307[ Page 4 ] of Serial Killer Rapist sorted by Confirmed Victims
3. #87 of 651[ Page 6 ] of serial killers sorted by Confirmed Victims
4. #372 of 651[ Page 25 ] of the A-Z List of Serial Killers
5. #445 of 651[ Page 30 ] of serial killers sorted by Profile Completeness
6. #649 of 651[ Page 44 ] of serial killers sorted by Years Active

Statistics:

Serial Killers Statistics, charts Jimmy Maketta is included in: Active Serial Killers by Country, Serial Killers By Gender, Active Serial Killers by Year and Statistical Boolean Questions.

Years Active:

• 2005