Kenyan Police Arrest Man Suspected of Killing 42 Women in Nairobi

GOOBJOOG NEWS | NAIROBI: Police in Kenya have arrested a man in connection to the death of 42 women whose bodies were discovered at a dumpsite in Mukuru Slums in the country’s capital, Nairobi.

According to the Director of Criminal Investigations Mohamed Amin, the suspect was arrested early Monday at Kayole in Nairobi and will be charged in connection with the killings.

Police said Collins Jumaisi, a 33-year-old man living near the quarry in Mukuru neighbourhood in the south of the capital, was arrested early on Monday and that he had confessed to killing 42 women including his wife.

The acting head of police, Douglas Kanja Kirocho, said nine bodies had been recovered so far from the quarry.

“It is crystallising that we are dealing with a serial killer, a psychopathic serial killer who has no respect for human life,” said Amin Mohamed, the head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations.

Jumaisi confessed that he lured and killed 42 women and dumped their remains at the quarry, Mohamed said.

The murders stretch back to 2022, starting with Jumaisi’s wife, with the most recent on July 11, Mohamed said in the televised statement.

At Jumaisi’s home, police said they found several mobile phones, identity cards, a machete they believed was used to cut up the victims, industrial rubber gloves, rolls of sellotape and a dozen nylon sacks similar to those in which the victims were found.