Kai, Tristan and Otto Masterton speak about the murder of their mother and wife, Jill.
“To die is one thing, but to die in such a manner…it took her an hour to die,” Otto Masterton (60) said about the murder of his wife Jill Masterton (62).
I am shattered about the cruelty / savageness involved. Jill was stabbed many times in her head when the attackers apparently noticed the wooden box in which the ashes of her beloved Rhodesian Ridgeback, Malaika, was kept, and mistook it for a jewellery box. She resisted them when they mishandled her baby (the ashes). Otto believes that this is what happened.
The two were attacked last Thursday in their idyllic retirement unit in the Letamo game reserve outside Krugersdorp. They tied Otto up, while the men tied Jill’s hands together and took her through the house to identify valuable belongings.
“I head her scream, and then another noise, and then I feared for the worst”, said Otto. “They dragged her by her hair throughout the house and then tied them together, facing each other”.
“She could still hear me and reacted by making noises”, Otto said. “Her head was completely covered in blood”.
“She lay in a pool of her own blood, and he struggled to keep her out of the blood so that she did not drown in her own blood”
Her jaw and her teeth were broken and smashed, and she was busy bleeding to death and Otto could not help her because has tied tightly.
When they had gone, it took Otto about half an hour before Otto could free both of them and go to look for help. Otto ran off and screamed for help.
They were married for 36 years. Otto himself washed his wife’s blood off himself and cleaned up all the blood in the house in which they lived for many years.
Not one of the men masked themselves so that their identities could be hidden (they just attacked brazenly). They went away with goods between 30, 000 and 40, 000 Rands, including electronics, cash, alcohol and jewellery.
They were not interested in the motor vehicles.
Jll’s sons Kai (36) and Tristan (34) yesterday, together with their father spoke of how she, her entire life, gave her heart to animals, from bats to orphan elephants. She also had a love for word games.
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