Suspect was ‘in the process of luring another victim’ when he was arrested in Nairobi, police say
Kenyan police say they have arrested a suspected serial killer who has confessed to murdering 42 women including his wife and dumping their dismembered bodies in a Nairobi rubbish tip.The acting inspector general of police, Douglas Kanja, said the 33-year-old suspect, named as Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, was arrested at about 3am on Monday near a Nairobi bar where he had been watching the Euro 2024 final.
Kanja saying autopsies on the victims discovered to date would be carried out on Monday. Eight have been confirmed to be female. Kenya’s police watchdog, the Independent Police Oversight Authority , had said on Friday it was looking into whether there was any police connection to the bodies found in the tip, noting that the dump site was just 100 metres from a police station. IPOA was also investigating whether there had been a “failure to act to prevent” the grisly killings.
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