Kenyan police announced on Monday that a "mentally disturbed serial killer" confessed to killing 42 women, after nine mutilated bodies were found in a landfill in the capital, Nairobi.
Collins Jamesi Khaliusha (33 years old), who died in Nairobi, confessed to "killing 42 women and disposing of their bodies in a landfill" in the Mukuru neighborhood south of the Kenyan capital, the head of the Sexual Crimes Investigation Directorate, Amin Mohammed, said during a press conference.
He was arrested in front of the "Golden Club for watching the European Football Cup final" on Sunday evening, according to the security spokesman.
He confirmed that he was "trying to attract another victim" when the police arrested him, according to the authorities.
Mohammed added, "We are dealing with a serial killer, a mentally disturbed serial killer who has no respect for human life."
Information was found after analyzing the phone data of one of the victims.
"It is very unfortunate and sad that he is accused of confirming that his first victim was his wife... who he strangled before he cut up her body and threw it" in the landfill, he continued.
The police noted that searches are continuing in the landfill and in the house to confirm the distance, which is about 100 meters from the landfill.
These murders are arranged between 2022 and July 11, 2024, according to the same source.
Mohamed noted that "one suspect was arrested and the other was detained... and that one of the victims' phones was seized without revealing further details.
Kenyan authorities say that nine bodies, at least eight of them women, have been found so far in the landfill between Friday and Sunday.
The victims' ages range between 18 and 30, according to the spokesman.
The police have been heavily criticised after the first bodies were discovered in this landfill, which is located less than 100 metres from the police station.
Kenyan police have pledged to conduct a "transparent" investigation into the case. Kenya's Independent Police Oversight Authority said on Saturday that it had opened an investigation into allegations of suspected police involvement.