The prime suspect in the brutal murder of females whose bodies were discovered at a dumpsite in Kware, Mukuru Kwa Njenga in Embakasi Southi, has been arrested.
Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Director Mohamed Amin in a press conference on Monday, July 15, 2024, said the suspect confessed to having killed and disposed off 42 female bodies at the dumping site.
According to the DCI boss, the victims are said to have been murdered between 2022 and as recent as July 11, 2024.
The suspect identified as Collins Khalisia was apprehended on Monday, July 15, 2024, at about 1 am, in Soweto, Kayole Sub-County.
The suspect was arrested outside a night club where he had gone to watch the Euro 2024 finals.
According to DCI boss Amin, the first victim of the suspect’s murders was his wife Imelda Khamenya whose body was also dismembered and dumped at the Kware dumpsite.
“Upon interrogation, the suspect confessed to having killed 42 females between 2022 and as recently as Thursday, July 11, 2024. The suspect alleged that his first victim was his wife, Imelda Khamenya, whose body was dismembered and dumped at the site” Amin said.
Amin said the motive for the suspect’s killing of his wife was driven by an incident in which he started a business for his wife but she instead squandered all the money.
Nine bodies have since been retrieved from an abandoned quarry in Kware which is adjacent to Mukuru Kwa Njenga slums in Embakasi South, Nairobi.
The mutilated bodies at the dumpsite were first discovered on Friday, July 12, 2024.
This is after a lady confessed to the locals that her sister who has been missing since July 26, 2024, had appeared to her in a dream and said that she was lonely at the quarry dam and that she needed to be taken home.
