Kenyan Suspect “Confesses To 42 Murders” in Dumped Bodies Case

Kenyan police announced on Monday that they had detained a person they believed to be a serial murderer. The man had admitted to killing 42 women, including his wife, and then disposing of their dismembered bodies in a Nairobi trash can.

Nine mutilated corpses, each trussed up in plastic bags, have been removed from the trash dump in the south of the capital’s Mukuru slum neighborhood since Friday. This horrific find has shocked the entire country.

The 33-year-old suspect, Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, was apprehended on Monday at approximately three in the morning (0000 GMT) in the vicinity of a Nairobi pub where he was watching the Euro 2024 football finals, according to Acting Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja.

Mohamed Amin, the director of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), told reporters, “We are dealing with a serial killer, a psychopathic serial killer who has no respect for human life.”

“We have a psychopath and a vampire on our hands.”

According to Amin, Khalusha stated that the killings happened between July 11 of this year and 2022.

He said, “The suspect confessed to having killed, lured, and dumped 42 female bodies at the dumping site.”

“Sadly, and this is very sad, the suspect claimed that his wife was his first victim… who he killed by strangulation, then dismembered and disposed of her body at the same location,” the speaker stated.

Enticing a Different Victim
In a cooperative effort by the DCI and the National Police Service, the suspect was located following examination of one of the victim’s cell phones, according to Amin.

“He was in the process of luring another victim,” Amin claimed, as the police closed in.

He said that Khalusha had admitted to sharing “carnal knowledge” with a few of his victims.

In addition to finding a machete, nylon sacks, rope, and a pair of industrial rubber gloves in his one-room home, which was only 100 yards from the scene of the bodies, the officers also found a “pink female handbag” and “two female panties” inside.

Amin stated that the locations will continue to be “active crime scenes” and promised a careful investigation.

Police have recovered nine remains from the murder scene that have been severely disfigured. Kanja stated that Monday will be the day for the victims’ autopsy. It is confirmed that eight of them are female.

Amin claimed that a second suspect has also been taken into custody after being discovered in possession of a victim’s phone.

Police in the Public Eye

The revelations have put Kenyan police under further scrutiny and increased President William Ruto’s strain as he struggles to control a crisis stemming from huge anti-government protests that have resulted in the deaths of dozens of protestors.

The dumpsite was only 100 meters from a police station. Kenya’s police watchdog, the Independent Police Oversight Authority (IPOA), had stated on Friday that it was investigating whether there was any police involvement in the deaths found in the tip.

In addition, IPOA was looking into whether there had been a “failure to act to prevent” the gruesome murders.

Kanja, who has only been in office for a week due to the consequences from the bloodshed during the protests last month, informed reporters last week that all of the police officers at the police post next to the trash tip had been moved.

Nevertheless, during the weekend, there was a lot of stress at the murder site as volunteers searched through the enormous amounts of trash in the closed quarry for additional victims.

According to an AFP correspondent on the site, there was a brief altercation as residents attempted to bring a bag they had dug out of the hole to the police station, only to be confronted by bursts of tear gas.

Rights organizations frequently accuse Kenyan police of using excessive force, carrying out illegal executions, or operating hit squads, but very few of these claims have been brought to court.