The prime suspect behind the murder of 42 women in Kware is a person “full of vengeance and hatred”, Director of Criminal Investigations Mohamed Amin has said.
Amin revealed Monday during a press conference that the man’s first victim was his wife.
According to Amin, the suspect claimed he had established a business for his wife but she mismanaged it.
“What motivated this young man to do what he did was an area that was of interest to us,” Amin said.
“He told us that he was married to his first wife in 2022 and had started a business for her only to squander it...he then started another business for her but squandered it again.”
DCI boss Amin said from the interrogation, the man claimed that out of bitterness he chopped her into pieces and dumped her at the dumpsite.
Amin added that the suspect told them that he had a special predilection for beautiful women.
“According to what he told us, his testimony, he had a predilection for beautiful women. Beauty is subjective though,” he stated.
The suspect is alleged to have lured women and strangled them to death before he dismembered and disposed of the bodies.
Amin said the suspect led officers to his single room in Kware located 100 meters from the quarry.
"This is where he told us what he has been doing to the victims," he said.
Among the items recovered from his house are 24 SIM cards, 8 smartphones, two feature phones, one laptop and one hard drive.
Others are 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 were also recovered.
Also recovered were one reflector jacket, two title deeds, two notebooks and assorted documents.
"On interrogation, the suspected confessed to having lured, killed and disposed off 42 female bodies at the dumping site. They were all murdered between 2022 and as recently as July 11, 2024," the DCI boss stated.
"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."
