More arrests are expected regarding the recovery of mutilated bodies at Kware dumpsite in Mukuru kwa Njenga slums as detectives widen the scope of investigations beyond the key suspect arrested early Monday.
Director General of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations Mohamed Amin said at the DCI headquarters they believe the suspect, 33, was not working alone.
“We are dealing with a vampire, a psychopath. We shall make sure that the investigations are thorough [and] very very professional. Any other character or characters who are associated with him, we shall go for them,” he said.
Amin said the suspect was arrested at Soweto in Kayole at around 3 am outside a club where he had gone to watch the Euro 2024 final match between Spain and England.
Amin said the man was in the process of luring another victim when he was nabbed by officers from the DCI Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau and Operations directorate.
“On interrogation, the suspect confessed to having lured, killed, and disposed of 42 female bodies at the dumping site, all murdered between 2022 and Thursday, July 11, 2024,” Amin said.
He added that the suspect confessed to having similarly killed all his victims, starting with his wife whom he strangled to death before dismembering her body and disposing it of at the site.
“We are likely to arrest more suspects because we believe that he was not alone in the commission of this reprehensible act and very soon we shall be able to arrest them. We shall cast the net wider,” Amin said.
The DCI boss revealed that they have already arrested a second suspect who was found with the mobile phone of one of the victims whose body was positively identified by her family at the Nairobi Funeral Home, formerly City Mortuary.
Amin said the key suspect told detectives he disposed of the mobile phones of his victims at throw-away prices, sometimes for as low as Sh500.
“This morning it’s true we arrested one suspect whom we found in possession of one of the handsets belonging to one of the victims. We are taking him as an accomplice or as a witness, whichever way investigations will take us,” he said.
Detectives recovered several items as exhibits of the heinous crime at the key suspect’s one-room rental house in Kware, some 100 meters from the dumpsite.
They include a machete, 12 nylon sacks, a pair of industrial rubber gloves, two female panties, four cleat sellotapes, a nylon rope, eight smartphones, a laptop, a hard drive and 24 SIM cards.
