Kenya murder suspect admits to killing 42 women

By Agence France-Presse

Jul 16, 2024 12:24 am

NAIROBI — Police in Kenya said on Monday they had arrested a suspected 'serial killer' who had confessed to murdering 42 women before dumping their dismembered bodies in a garbage dump in the capital Nairobi.

Since Friday, a total of nine mutilated and dismembered bodies trussed in plastic bags have been pulled from the trash site in the Mukuru slum area in the capital's south, a gruesome discovery that has horrified the East African nation.

FOUL PLACE People stand on the edge of a landfill where six bodies were found, in the Mukuru slum area of Kenya’s capital Nairobi, on July 12, 2024. AFP PHOTO

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