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Amazon Doc Revisits Facebook Sting That Caught Safari Lodge Murderer

The Amazon Prime Video film highlights a niece’s Facebook sting that led to her aunt’s killer receiving a life sentence years after bungled extraditions.

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Overview

  • The Amazon Prime Video documentary "The Facebook Honeytrap: Catching a Killer" premiered on July 27, 2025, recounting how Christine Robinson’s niece mounted a solo online operation to expose the suspect.
  • Frustrated by repeated extradition failures, Lehanne Sergison posed as “Missy Falcao” from 2016 to lure gardener Andrea Imbayarwo into revealing his location on Facebook.
  • A viral social media post on the sixth anniversary of Robinson’s death on July 30, 2020, prompted his arrest in Johannesburg after years of police stalling.
  • In April 2022, Imbayarwo was convicted of rape and murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in a case that defied South Africa’s sub-10 percent conviction rate for sexual offenses.
  • The film underscores gaps in cross-border justice, spotlighting South Africa’s deep femicide crisis where only 8.6 percent of reported rapes lead to convictions.