# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-van-schoor
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:02:37.743Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-van-schoor"
name: "Louis van Schoor"
slug: "louis-van-schoor"
description: "Sybrand Jacobus Lodewikus \"Louis\" van Schoor, known as the Apartheid Killer, was a South African mass killer, policeman, and security guard who committed murders between 1986 and 1989. He was arrested in 1991 and convicted of seven murders and two attempted murders but was released on parole in 2004. It is believed that the total number of his victims was 39, all of them in East London, South Africa. Thirty-two of the killings were described as \"justifiable homicides\" by police, while Schoor himself insisted that his victims were \"criminals\" whom he had caught in the act."
tagline: "South African serial killer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Louis_Van_Schoor_in_2024_Image_sourced_from_BBC_News.webp?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
birthDate: "1951"
deathDate: "2024-07-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.530386666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  211
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_van_Schoor"
    title: "Louis van Schoor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_van_Schoor"
    title: "Louis van Schoor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "لويس فان شور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_van_Schoor"
    title: "Louis van Schoor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_van_Schoor"
    title: "Louis van Schoor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_van_Schoor"
    title: "Louis van Schoor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16661365"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump