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List of items recovered from prime suspect of Kware killings

He was arrested Monday morning from a hideout in Kayole, 100 metres from where  bodies were found.

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by BRIAN ORUTA

News15 July 2024 - 08:17

In Summary


  • • According to police, the suspect had confessed to the serial killings.
  • • Also recovered was one reflector jacket, two title deeds, two notebooks and assorted documents.
The bodies retrieved from dumpsite in Kware, Nairobi county on July 12, 2024

The Director of Criminal Investigations Mohamed  Amin has disclosed the list of items found in possession of the suspect in the Kware killings.

Upon arrest, he led officers to his rented single room in Kware, which is located about 100 metres from the quarry dam where the bodies and body parts were recovered.

"His pursuit and subsequent arrest followed a very thorough forensic analysis of a mobile phone that belonged to one of the victims namely Josephine Owino where some mobile money transactions were conducted on the very day Josephine went missing," the DCI boss said.

According to Amin, several have been recovered in his procession including 24 sim cards, 8 smartphones, and two feature phones, one laptop and one hard drive.

Two flash drives and a memory card, one machete, which detectives believe was being used to dismember the victims, and 12 nylon sacks similar to the ones that were used to stuff the bodies.

A pair of industrial rubber gloves, six ID cards for men and two ID cards for women, one pink female handbag, two pink female panties, five rolls of cannabis sativa, and four clear sellotapes.

"Some of which were recovered at the scene."

Also recovered was one reflector jacket, two title deeds, two notebooks and assorted documents.

"On interrogation, the suspected confessed to have lured, killed and disposed 42 female bodies at the dumping site. All murdered between 2022 and as recent as July 11, 2024."

The suspected was arrested on Monday morning from a hideout in Kayole.

The suspect stays about 500 meters from the Kware dumpsite where at least ten badly mutilated bodies of women were recovered in an operation.

According to Amin, he also confessed that his first victim was his wife.


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