- Kenyan police have announced that they have arrested a man accused of murdering nine dismembered female bodies found in a stone quarry in the capital, Nairobi.
- According to the Director of Criminal Investigations, Collins Jumaisi Karsha has confessed to killing 42 women, including his wife, since 2022.
- Police said the body was found after a relative of one of the missing women claimed that in a dream the woman had instructed them to search the quarry.
Kenyan police announced on Monday that they had arrested a man accused of murdering nine dismembered female bodies found in a quarry in the capital, Nairobi.
Criminal Investigations Director General Mohammed Amin said the suspect, Collins Jumaisi Karsha, 33, had confessed to killing 42 women, including his wife, since 2022. Investigators have not presented any evidence to support the suspect’s claim that he killed 42 people.
He was scheduled to be arraigned in court on Tuesday.
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Police said several smartphones and identification documents were found at his home, a short walk from the quarry.
A bag containing human bones is seen after it was removed from a quarry in the Mukuru Kwa Njenga area of Nairobi, Kenya, on July 13, 2024. Kenyan police said on Monday they had arrested a man suspected of being the ringleader in the discovery of nine dismembered female bodies at a quarry in the capital, Nairobi. (AP Photo/Andrew Cusk)
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Police said the body was found after a relative of the missing woman claimed she had had a dream instructing them to search the quarry. The relative then enlisted the help of local divers, who found the body wrapped in a bag.
Acting Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja said officers from a nearby police station had been transferred to investigate. Local residents had accused police of inaction, given the proximity of the quarry and the fact that there had been an unsolved missing persons case there.
In a statement signed over the weekend, the rights groups called on Kenyan security authorities to “expedite the investigation of all reports of enforced disappearances,” after initial concerns that the bodies were linked to the kidnappings and arrests of young people during recent anti-government protests.
