Texting, murder and inconsistencies

A beautiful model, with the idea that she would live happily ever after with her new husband, is now dead, after being beaten unmercifully. Her murder includes those dynamics that are powerful enough to keep people around the world focused and interested; unfortunately, it doesn’t appear answers will be coming any time in the near future. For a grieving family that cannot understand why, the days that continue to pass with no answers are as tragic as the death itself.

Married for only weeks, Shrien Dewani, the handsome and seemingly wealthy businessman, and his new bride, Anni, had chosen South Africa as their honeymoon get-away. Anni had grown up in Sweden while Shrien was raised in the UK. They met in late 2009, were engaged less than six months later and were then married before 2010 came to a close. To their friends and families, this couple had a solid foundation and definitive game plan for how they would live their lives. Unfortunately, just two days after arriving in South Africa, they found themselves in a nightmare.

It began when a cab driver, who interestingly was the same driver who’d picked the couple up when they arrived in the country, agreed to take them on a "slum tour". After having dinner, they were taking in the country as a whole. Before long, their tour was interrupted by hijackers who tossed the driver, Zola Tongo, out of the cab and later tossed Dewani out as well. The cab was found hours later with Anni’s body in the back.

In quick time, law enforcement learned Tongo was part of the murder-for-hire plot. They also garnered the names of the other two men who’d hijacked the taxi. During weeks of questioning and the first trial, a story emerged that placed Dewani in police cross hairs. But why? Why would Dewani want his new bride murdered?

Dewani has denied accusations that he ordered the hit and said he had no motive. Reports now, however, say he might have had more than six million reasons: the family business was sinking faster than the Titanic. A life insurance policy could easily solve all the financial problems Dewani had been shouldering. Whether or not that’s true, there are baffling questions and bizarre scenarios that must be taken into consideration.

The most obvious question is why the hijackers would boot the two men out, at different times and in different areas, if they were so concerned about getting caught. They basically had set eyewitnesses free. It was also revealed Anni was not sexually assaulted and because she was found in the taxi, rape and car theft couldn’t have been the motive. That leaves homicide; which then begs the question: "Why would two strangers murder a woman they don’t know?" The obvious, though unproven, answer is "because her husband paid them to kill her".

The story is only growing more bizarre. In our next piece on this series, we take a look at the many contradictions that taint police efforts as they seek to find out why Anni Dewani was murdered.

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