Police in Kenya, have arrested a man who confessed to have killed 42 women between 2022 and this year
The women killed included his own wife.
The man, Jomaisi Khalisia has been described as a “serial killer” by the Police was also suspected to have been behind the gruesome murder of nine women whose mutilated bodies were found recently in a dumpsite.
Police said Khalisia was arrested at a bar early on Monday morning as he was watching Euro final.
Head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), Mohamed Amin said he confessed to dumping their bodies at the dump site.
“He confessed to have lured, killed and disposed of 42 female bodies at the Mukuru dumping site, all murdered between 2022 and as recent as Thursday,” said Mohamed Amin,
He said that after his arrest, the suspect led police officers to his house, about 100m (yards) from the crime scene.
Some items said to have been recovered from the suspect’s house, include 10 phones, a laptop, identity cards and personal female clothing.
They also found a machete they “believed was being used to dismember the victims”, and nine sacks like the ones used to dispose off the bodies.
Since Friday, police have cordoned off the dumpsite where the bodies were found in various stages of decomposition.
Police also said they were still interrogating the suspect to establish the motive for the killings and would be arraigned on Tuesday.
They said his arrest followed a “forensic analysis” of a mobile phone that belonged to one of the victims, Josephine Mulongo Owino, “where some mobile money transactions were conducted on the very day [she] went missing”.
Post-mortem examinations on the bodies were being conducted, the police said. (vitalnewsngr.com)
