Acting Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja said the 33-year-old suspect, named as Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, was arrested at around 3:00 am (0000 GMT) on Monday, July 15, near a Nairobi bar.
‘We are dealing with a serial k!ller, a psychopathic serial killer who has no respect for human life,’ the head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Mohamed Amin told reporters. ‘We are dealing with a vampire, a psychopath
Amin said Khalusha claimed the m&rders took place between 2022 and July 11 this year.
‘The suspect confessed to have lured, k!lled, and disposed of 42 female bodies at the dumping site,’ he added.
The suspect was tracked down after analysis of one of the victim’s mobile phones, Amin said, in a joint operation by the DCI and the National Police Service.
As officers swooped, ‘he was in the process of luring another victim’, Amin said.
Khalusha had confessed to having had ‘carnal knowledge’ with some of his victims, he added.
Officers searched his one-room house, located just 100 metres (yards) from where the bodies were found, discovering a machete, nylon sacks, rope, a pair of industrial rubber gloves – as well as a ‘pink female handbag’, and ‘two female panties’.
The areas will remain ‘active crime scenes,’ Amin said, promising a thorough investigation.
Nine mutilated and dismembered bodies have so far been retrieved from the crime scene, according to police, with Kanja saying autopsies on the victims would be carried out on Monday. Eight have been confirmed to be female.
A second suspect who was caught with a phone belonging to one of the victims has also been arrested, Amin said.
Kenya’s police watchdog, the Independent Police Oversight Authority (IPOA), had said on Friday it was looking into whether there was any police involvement in the bodies found in the tip, noting that the dumpsite was just 100 metres from a police station.
IPOA was also investigating if there had been a ‘failure to act to prevent’ the grisly k!llings.
