Reeva Steenkamp is the model who was killed in the South African home of Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius on the morning of 14 February 2013. Pistorius was arrested and charged with her murder that day.  Reeva Steenkamp was born in Cape Town and went to college at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, where she earned a Bachelor of Laws degree in 2005. A striking blonde with blue-green eyes, Steenkamp had begun modeling at age 14, and her career took off after college. She joined the ICE Models agency, appeared as a cover girl for FHM magazine, and appeared in South African ads for Avon cosmetics and Sivana Diamonds. In November of 2012 she began dating Oscar Pistorius, a double amputee known as the Blade Runner for his prosthetic racing legs. Pistorius was one of South Africa's most famous athletes, having run on the South African team in the 2012 Summer Olympics. That made it all the more shocking when Reeva Steenkamp was shot to death at his home in a gated community near Cape Town on 14 February 2013. Police arrested Pistorius almost immediately on charges of murder; prosecuters later said that Steenkamp had locked herself in the bathroom of Pistorius's house, and Pistorius shot his 9mm pistol through the bathroom door and killed her. Pistorius's legal team did not deny the bathroom shooting but argued that it was not murder, and his family has suggested that Steenkamp's death was somehow a tragic accident. Pistorius was denied bail in an early hearing, and a full trial is expected sometime in 2013.

Reeva Steenkamp was 171 cm tall (5 feet, 7.5 inches) tall, with blue-green eyes and a shoe size of 39.5 EU (8.5 US), according to her page from the ICE modeling agency... Shortly before her death, she filmed a reality TV series called Tropika Island of Treasure 5; the first show was broadcast as scheduled a few days after her death... On her Twitter account, Reeva Steenkamp described herself as an "SA Model, Cover Girl, Tropika Island of Treasure Celeb Contestant, Law Graduate, Child of God."