Blood Brothers | Woman lives in fear after gangland catfish stole her pictures for fake Facebook profile

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Sex, lies, and murder: How gang killings and tobacco hits collide.
Sex, lies, and murder: How gang killings and tobacco hits collide.

A woman is living in fear after she was unwittingly drawn into a Facebook catfish scam that's linked to a bloody gang shooting. 

Pictures of Logan Malouw were used to populate a fake Facebook profile which has become central in understanding the gangland murder of Paisley Holmes. The 26-year-old was gunned down in Eden Park, in the southern reaches of Johannesburg in April of 2018. 

A News24 investigative series titled Blood Brothers has exposed the alleged roles of three brothers in a string of gang killings and executions in the local tobacco trade. The latest story delved into the murder of Holmes. 

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