Alison offered the car to her captor in a last-ditch effort to establish a relationship.
But he ‘wanted companionship’, according to the true crime podcast Morbid, which cited her book I Have Life: Alison’s Journey.
After leaving the town, Du Toit twice went by a throng of people on the street while looking for one person in particular: Theuns Kruger.
The short, all-black-clad man walked over to the driver’s side and got inside the vehicle.
As Kruger climbed in, Du Toit, who had presented himself as ‘Clinton’, pushed the driver’s seat forward and introduced Alison (also adopting a pseudonym) as his friend Susan.