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Homicide detectives revisited the house of Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, the suspect linked to dozens of killings in Kware, Nairobi,  and have collected additional evidence.

Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) officers said they seized a bloodstained hammer, a pair of pliers, two kitchen knives, four pairs of women’s shoes and a gunny bag.

The mother of Imelda Judith Karenya, alleged to have been Khalusha’s wife and first victim, has also confirmed that one of the nine identification cards recovered at the suspect’s house belonged to her daughter.

The house has been declared the primary scene of crime following yesterday recoveries, and Khalusa’s admission that bloodstains found on the walls and floor of his house were from some of his victims.

Hospital receipts

Khalusha, who on Monday disowned his confession at the Makadara Law Courts, yesterday admitted that he murdered 20 women last year, adding that this year he had killed 10.

Detectives, accompanied by the suspect, spent about five hours in the house and seized a dressing mirror with fingerprints, a mattress, a bloodstained pillow, sisal and manila ropes and a red T-shirt.

Another crucial piece of evidence seized was a book with hospital receipts bearing the name of a woman whose identity was not revealed.

“A team was sent to the hospital to confirm if the woman was attended to there,” a senior detective said.

Khalusha is the prime suspect in the macabre murders of at least 42 women in the city and claims he met all of them on the streets.

Some of the victims, he claimed, were selling airtime in the area and he targeted them before luring them to his house, raping them and later killing them. 

In his confession, recorded at the DCI offices, Khalusha claimed he had killed 10 women this year alone.

The last victim was killed on July 11, a day before bodies were discovered at the Kware dumpsite in Mukuru, Nairobi.

Khalusha told detectives he strangled the women, left their bodies on a nylon paper in his house before dismembering and later dumping them at the disused quarry about 500 metres from his house. 

He claimed sometimes he used the seized hammer and most of his victims were women from the slum where he also lived.