A Kenyan man was arrested on Monday and confessed to killing at least 42 women, including his wife, over two years.
Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, 33, reportedly killed his newest victim up to four days before his arrest Monday in a murder spree that might last until 2022, according to officials.
“We are dealing with a serial killer, a psychopathic serial killer who has no respect for life,” Kenya’s director of criminal investigations, Mohamed Amin, told a news conference in Nairobi on Monday.
So far, nine remains, “severely dismembered, in various stages of decomposition, and left in sacks,” have been discovered at an abandoned waste site near his home. A post-mortem examination of the bodies is scheduled for Monday.
Khalusha was apprehended around 3 a.m. local time Monday in Soweto, east of Kenya’s capital Nairobi, outside a bar where he had gone to watch the European 2024 soccer championship final.
During interrogation, the suspect admitted to having lured, killed, and disposed of 42 female victims at the dumping site, all of which were allegedly murdered between 2022 and July 11, according to Amin.
According to police, another suspect has been arrested in connection with the case after being captured with a victim’s handset.
Kenyan police, who were tracing Khalusha’s cell phone signal, stated after his arrest that he admitted to “having lured, killed, and disposed of 42 female bodies,” including his wife and another lady, between 2022 and July of this year.
Police alleged he strangled his wife, Imelda Judith Khalenya, before dismembering and disposing of her body at the dump site where other victims were later discovered.
“It is the transaction of a mobile money transfer using Josephine Owino’s phone number that led detectives to track the suspect,” Amin told reporters, referring to one of the alleged victims who was reported missing.
Last Monday, local officials discovered the human remains of three of the victims, believed to be 18 to 30-year-old women, thrown into sacks near an abandoned quarry in Kware, where the alleged killer rented a residence some 300 feet away.
It occurred as a doomsday cult leader was on trial for purported terrorism charges coming from the deaths of over 400 of his followers in an unconnected incident.
During Monday’s news conference, police displayed some items found in Khalusha’s one-room apartment, including 10 cell phones, 24 SIM cards, six male and two female ID cards, a pair of rubber gloves, 12 nylon sacks, ropes, gloves, deeds, female panties, and a machete that police believe was used to dismember some of his alleged victims.
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A group of female leaders asked for improved protections for Kenyan women on Monday, following an increase in feticide incidents.
“Those women might have been killed today, but which woman is next in line?” Kajiado legislator Leah Sankaire Sopiato inquired. “It’s very awful that someone who slaughtered 42 people is still out there. Women’s lives must matter, and they must be protected.”
This incident occurs as Kenya has taken significant steps in recent months to strengthen its ties with the United States and establish itself on the global scene, most notably by deploying Kenyan troops as part of a multinational force in gang-plagued Haiti. A peacekeeping mission.
President Joe Biden in May announced he planned to identify Kenya as a “Major Non-NATO Ally,” a status accorded to countries “with close and strategic working relationships with the U.S. military and defense civilians.”
Meanwhile, Kenyan President William Ruto withdrew a controversial tax bill weeks ago, a day after police shot and killed 22 people and injured more than 200 protestors who stormed the nation’s Parliament building in Nairobi minutes after parliament passed the measure.
That caused police to fire into the enraged throng protesting a bill that would have increased taxes in a country where many people already struggle to pay bills and feed their families.