Kenyan serial killer Collins Jomaisi Khalusha, who killed 42 women, arrested

Police in Kenya have arrested Collins Jomaisi Khalusha, 33, who is allegedly a "serial killer" currently being held in connection with the murder of nine women whose genitalia were mutilated and whose naked bodies were dumped in a disused quarry, which is a rubbish dump.

Khalusha admitted to having murdered 42 women after July 2022, which includes his wife, BBC reported. 

The arrest occurred at a bar early on Monday morning when Khalusha was watching the Euro final. The incidences of finding the corpses behind the Mukuru quarry in Nairobi have elicited shock and anger in the entire country of Kenya.

The head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Mohamed Amin revealed that “[He] confessed to having lured, killed, and disposed of 42 female bodies at the dumping site, all murdered between 2022 and as recent as Thursday. ”

In light of this, many Kenyans have wondered how people could be killed for two consecutive years and police be unaware of the same.

Khalusha was arrested, and he took the police to his house which was just a distance of 100 meters from the scene of the crime. Among the items discovered were 10 mobile phones, a laptop computer, two identity cards, female dresses that the victims were wearing, a machete which was presumably used in chopping the deceased, and nine sacks believed to have been used in the dumping of the bodies.

The police have blocked all the access points at the dumpsite where the bodies were discovered half naked and in different states of decomposition. They were aged between 18 and 30 and all of them had been killed in the same manner.

While the authorities have recognised and affirmed nine bodies in the quarry, Kenyan citizens, some of whom, like Joseph Waweru, who assisted in the bodies’ removal, believe that the number is greater. Waweru noted that there were sixteen corpses which were nearly dismembered beyond recognition.

The police have persisted in questioning Khalusha to know the reason for the brutal killings and they intend to take him to court on Tuesday.