Detectives revisited the house of the prime suspect in the Kware killings, Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, and recovered several items, including a blood-stained hammer.
Other recovered items included a dressing mirror with fingerprints, a mattress, a blood-stained pillow, a red t-shirt, a pair of pliers, two kitchen knives, four pairs of women's shoes, and a gunny bag.
The team, accompanied by Khalusha, spent five hours at the scene on Wednesday morning. They also found sisal and manila ropes and a notebook with hospital receipts bearing a woman's name. A team was sent to the hospital to verify if the woman had been treated there.
Khalusha, the prime suspect in the murders of at least 42 women in the city, claimed he met all of them on the streets, some of whom were selling airtime in the area.
Detectives concluded that his house was the primary crime scene after finding blood stains on the walls and floor, which he said were from some of the victims.
In his confession recorded at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), Khalusha claimed he had killed ten women in 2024 alone.
The latest victim was killed on July 11, a day before the bodies were discovered at the Kware dump site in Mukuru slums, Nairobi.
Police say Khalusha claimed he had unprotected sex with all the victims, promising to pay them KES 500, which he never did.
He allegedly strangled them during the act, left the body on a nylon sheet in his house, dismembered it, and later dumped it at a site about 500 meters from his house. At times, he used the hammer in these acts.
Born in Vihiga in 1991, Khalusha moved with his mother to Migori three years later after his father's death.
Most of his victims were women from the slum where he lived. He allegedly told police he killed over 20 women in 2023 and ten in 2024.
Police said Khalusha would take the victims' belongings and either give them to friends or sell them, including mobile phones, clothes, cash, bags, and other valuables.
He claimed he was motivated by hatred for his late wife, who squandered her businesses twice.
Police are now documenting all the victims, fearing identification may be complicated. Besides Khalusha, another person of interest was apprehended at City Cabanas on Monday for possessing a mobile phone belonging to one of the victims, Roselyn Akoth Ogongo, whose remains were identified by her family at the Nairobi Funeral Home on the same day.
Ogongo's family identified her handbag among the items recovered at Khalusha's residence. A sister to the deceased said the last time she saw her slain sister, she had the handbag. Upon interrogation, the suspect led detectives to another person who had sold him the phone.
The second suspect, arrested at City Cabanas, led detectives to his house in Mukuru kwa Reuben, where police found 154 used mobile phones.
He allegedly admitted to purchasing used phones from Khalusha, leading police to believe he was part of the cartel behind the murders.
The DCI reported that the family of Imelda Judith Karenya, Khalusha's alleged wife and first victim, confirmed that one of the nine identification cards recovered at the suspect's house belonged to her.
Khalusha alleged in court that police coerced him into confessing to the killings. His lawyer, John Maina Ndegwa, argued that Khalusha needed urgent medical attention due to molestation and torture while in detention, claiming the confession was coerced and "laughable."
Police have denied these claims and intend to conduct mental tests and other probes on the suspect.
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