‘We are dealing with a serial killer, a psychopathic serial killer who has no respect for human life‘ – Kenya police

Suspected serial killer Prime suspect, Collins Jumaisi Khalushi, 33, was arrested Monday and allegedly, admitted to luring and killing women 

He confesses to murdering 42 women and dumping them in a rubbish tip after remains of nine mutilated victims, a man and eight women, are found

First victim was his wife., who he strangled to death, before dismembering her body and disposing it at the same site

Since Friday, cops recovered nine mutilated and dismembered bodies, all stuffed in plastic bags, from a garbage site, in Mukuru slums, south of the capital Nairobi

A second suspect who was caught with a phone belonging to one of the victims has also been arrested

The garbage tip site is located just 300 feet from a police station

Based on location of makeshift graveyard, Kenya’s Independent Police Oversight Authority Friday announced a probe of possible law enforcement negligence in stopping the killings

Serial killing suspect Collins Jumaisi Khalushi, [photo], admitted to luring and killing 42 women, including his wife before dumping their dismembered bodies in a Nairobi rubbish tip. He was arrested near a bar in Nairobi on Monday

Kenyan police said Monday they had arrested a suspected serial killer who had confessed to murdering 42 women including his wife before dumping their dismembered bodies in a Nairobi rubbish tip.
Since Friday, there has been a gruesome discovery of nine dismembered victims, eight of of them women between the ages of 18 and 30, stuffed into plastic bags dumped at a garbage tip site in the Mukuru slums, south of the capital, Nairobi.
The country’s newly appointed head of police, Acting Inspector General Douglas Kanja said the 33-year-old suspect, Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, was in custody.
Head of Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations Mohamed Amin, described the suspect as a ‘vampire, a psychopath’.
DCI head Amin told reporters, ‘We are dealing with a serial killer, a psychopathic serial killer who has no respect for human life.’

Starting Friday, police in Kenya have recovered nine mutilated and dismembered bodies, all trussed in plastic bags, from a garbage tip site in the Mukuru slums, located in the south of Nairobi. The suspected killer police claimed has admitted to a count of 42 -all women

Kenyan police Monday announced the arrest the of a serial killer who allegedly has confessed to killing 42 women in the last two years, dumping their dismembered bodies in a rubbish tip in the slums of the capital, Nairobi

According to Kenyan authorities Khalusha, “lured, killed, and disposed of 42 female bodies at the dumping site” of which only nine have been recovered. Khalusha in his police interview claimed the murders began in 2022. The most recent was on July 11, 2024.
”Unfortunately, and this is very sad, the suspect alleged that his first victim was his wife… who he strangled to death, before dismembering her body and disposing it at the same site,’ Mohamed Amin said.
The suspect who was tracked down after analysis of one of the victim’s mobile phones, was arrested at 3 a.m. local time on Monday, outside a bar in Soweto, east of the capital Nairobi, where he had been watching this weekend’s European Nations [UEFA] 2024 Cup finals.As officers swooped, ‘he was in the process of luring another victim’, DCI head Amin said.
Khalusha had confessed to having had ‘carnal knowledge’ with some of his victims, he added.

Kenya’s Independent Police Oversight Authority Friday announced that they are probing possible law enforcement negligence in stopping the killings earlier, after the bodies were found at the dumpsite, located just 100 meters from a police station.

The police said they had been tracking Khalusha’s cell phone signal. – “It is the transaction of mobile money transfer using Josephine Owino’s phone number that led detectives to tracking the suspect,” Amin said, referring to one of the victims.
According to Owino’s family, she disappeared on June 26 from Nairobi’s sprawling Mukuru slums. her remains was among those found dismembered at the dump.
Officers searching his one-room house, located about 300 feet from the makeshift graveyard, recovered a trove of possible evidence..

Investigators searching Khalusha’s house, located about 300 feet from where the makeshift graveyard, recovered possible murder and dismemberment weapons as well as items belonging to the victims

Items recovered include male and female ID cards, victims phones, sim cards, a machete, nylon sacks, rope, a pair of industrial rubber gloves, as well as a ‘pink female handbag’ and ‘two female panties’

At the news conference on Monday, police displayed a number of items they said had been found in Khalusha’s possession, including 10 cell phones and 24 SIM cards, six ID cards for men and two ID cards for women, one pair of rubber gloves, 12 nylon sacks, ropes, gloves and a machete, which police believe was used to dismember some of the victims, as well as a ‘pink female handbag’, and ‘two female panties’
As at the time of reporting, nine mutilated and dismembered bodies been retrieved from the human dumpsite, according to police, with eight confirmed to be female. Autopsies on the victims was scheduled to begin on Monday.
A second suspect who was caught with a phone belonging to one of the victims has also been arrested, Amin said.

Over the weekend, tensions ran high at the crime scene as volunteers sifted through the massive rubbish piles in search of more victims A second suspect who was caught with a phone belonging to one of the victims has also been arrested, police said

The first six bodies were discovered on Friday by residents of Kware, in Nairobi’s Mukuru kwa Njenga neighborhood. 
Kenyan Police said the bodies were found in an “abandoned quarry,” currently “filled with water and used as a dumpsite.”
The suspect lived a short walk from the dumpsite which is also close to a police station, raising questions as to how he evaded detection for two years.

Killings has brought intense scrutiny of law enforcement practices. The Independent Police Oversight Authority opened a probe on possible law enforcement ‘failure to act to prevent’ the killings

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 about 110 yards from a police station.
IPOA was also investigating if there had been a ‘failure to act to prevent’ the grisly killings.
Still, tensions ran high at the crime scene over the weekend, as volunteers combed through the vast piles of rubbish in the abandoned quarry in search of more victims.