JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (PNN) - August 28, 2018 - A former police detective in South Africa who published a book exposing members of an alleged elite pedophile ring killed himself just days later, with his family believing that the man’s death was actually murder.
Mark Minnie’s book, The Lost Boys of Bird Island, claims to prove that members of South Africa’s last Apartheid government took children to Bird Island, just off the coast of Port Elizabeth, where they were sexually abused, and in some cases killed.
The book details the corruption within the last Apartheid government of South Africa and implicated officials all the way to the top, including defense minister Magnus Malan and the minister of environmental affairs, John Wiley.
Shortly before his death, Minnie revealed that he had been approached by more sources with more damning evidence, and that a sequel was in the works.
The book was published on August 5, but just nine days later Minnie was dead, having apparently shot himself in the head.
However, Tersia Dodo, a family member of Minnie, said that Minnie had insisted that if anything happened to him, to treat it as murder.
“He mentioned to us all the time that his life was in danger and if anything did happen to him we must know that it was done to him not by himself,” she said.
“Mark was not a coward, Mark faced life head on,” she added. “There is no way that I or any of us believed that he would have opted out and that is why I agreed to do this interview; to dispel any thoughts and rumors of suicide. He was not the type of man that was cowardly and that would do something like that.”
Dodo said that the suicide note found near Minnie’s body was either a fake, or written under duress.
While media obsess about “Pizzagate” and other dubious conspiracies about high level pedophile rings, the sexual abuse of children and its link to politicians, judges, and celebrities is a common theme all over the world.
