Kenya's Worst Serial Killer Arrested After Killing 42 Women in 2 Years Starting with His Wife

"The First Victim Is His Own Wife"

A prime serial murder suspect has been arrested in Kenya following the recent discovery of numerous severely mutilated female corpses.

Bodies are being recovered from a landfill in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.
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On the 15th (local time), local media The Nation reported that Muhammad Amin, head of the Kenya Police Criminal Investigation Department, held a press conference announcing the arrest of a suspect responsible for the murders of women whose dismembered bodies were recently found at a landfill site in the capital, Nairobi.

Amin revealed that the suspect is a 33-year-old man named Collins Jumaisha. He confessed to killing and disposing of the bodies of 42 women from 2022 until the 11th of this month. Amin stated, "The first victim was his wife, Imelda, whom he strangled to death before dismembering her body and dumping it at the same location," emphasizing that the suspect is a psychopathic serial killer who shows no respect for human life. The suspect was caught early this morning while attempting a mobile cash transaction using the phone number of one of the victims. It was even reported that during the police raid, Jumaisha was in the process of luring another victim.

Police investigations uncovered several victims' mobile phones and identification cards at Jumaisha’s residence, located about 100 meters from the landfill. The police also found machetes, industrial rubber gloves, and cellophane tape, which are believed to have been used to mutilate and dispose of the bodies. Local residents criticized the police for negligence, pointing out that multiple missing persons cases near the landfill had remained unsolved.

From the 12th until today, a total of nine female bodies have been recovered from the landfill in the slums of southern Nairobi. The mass discovery of bodies sparked suspicions locally that the police had kidnapped and killed citizens during the recent crackdown on protests against tax increases. Last month in Kenya, at least 39 people died during the police’s harsh suppression of large-scale protests opposing the tax legislation.

On the 11th, President William Ruto dismissed the entire cabinet except for Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi and Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. The following day, Police Chief Japhet Koome was also removed from his position, held accountable for the harsh crackdown. Although the tax bill was withdrawn after President Ruto exercised his veto, the protests shifted from opposing the tax increase to demanding the resignation of the government.