Kware bodies: Suspect admits killing 42 women, including wife
Police have arrested a middle-aged man believed to be behind the murder of multiple women and dumping their bodies in Kware dumpsite in Mukuru kwa Njenga, in Embakasi South Constituency.
The 33-year-old suspect, Collins Jomaisi Khalisia, from Vihiga County, was arrested in Nairobi’s Kayole area and crucial exhibits recovered from his house.
According to the Director of Criminals Investigations Mohamed Amin, preliminary investigations show that all the nine female bodies recovered at Kware dumpsite in Mukuru kwa Njenga were severely dismembered.
Addressing a presser Monday morning, the DCI boss said the suspected serial killer confessed to killing 42 women in the last two years with the recent heinous act having been committed last Thursday.
His first victim was his wife whom he strangled to death in 2022. The dumping site and the suspects’ house have been declared active crime scenes.
“The suspect confessed to having lured, killed and disposed of 42 females from 2022 with the latest as recent as last Thursday, July 11. The suspect alleged his first victim was his wife whom he strangled to death before dismembering her body. From our interrogation, all his victims have been murdered in the same style. Our investigations are still ongoing” Amin said.
The detectives have recovered several items from the house including mobile phones, a handbag and female inner garments that will be used as evidence.
“Upon arrest, we proceeded to his house where we recovered crucial exhibits. We recovered 24 Airtel sim card holders with no sim cards, 8 phones, a laptop, a machete, 12 nylon sacks used to dump the bodies, one pair of industrial gloves, one pink female handbag, two pink female panties and four huge clear tapes” he added.
Police are now calling on families with missing relatives to report to the DCI or the nearest police station.
“We call upon the families who reasonably believe that their loved ones may have fallen prey to these macabre murders, to these reprehensible acts of what I can only call a vampire to report to our DCI headquarters or the nearest police station for that matter. As DCI we reiterate our commitment to expedite investigations to deliver quick justice” the DCI said.
The bodies are in various stages of decomposition.
