Hammer, pliers, scissors, knives: Police recover more evidence from Kware murder suspect’s house

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) now claim to have retrieved additional evidence at the home of Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, who is accused of killing 42 women and dismembering their bodies before stuffing them, in sacks and dumping them at a quarry in Kware area of Mukuru kwa Njenga.

In a statement released n Wednesday, the DCI noted that after revisiting the suspected serial killer’s house, sleuths discovered various blood-stained items including a knife, hammer and scissors, that may potentially link Khalusha to the murders.

"A team of homicide detectives, in collaboration with their CSI counterparts, revisited the house of Collins Jumaisi Khalusha in Mukuru Kwa Njenga," said the DCI.

"Among the items recovered were a pillowcase with noticeable bloodstains, a blood-stained t-shirt, a blood-stained hammer, a blood-stained pair of pliers, three knives, one with bloodstains, and a blood-stained pair of scissors. Investigations are still ongoing and the suspect's house and the dumping site remain active crime scenes."  

Similarly, the DCI highlighted that the two other suspects arrested in connection with the macabre killings were on Wednesday detained for 28 days to allow police conclude investigations into the matter.

Amos Momanyi, who was apprehended on Tuesday, was found in possession of a mobile phone and two Safaricom SIM cards belonging to one of the victims, Roselyn Akoth Ogongo,

Upon interrogation, Momanyi reportedly led DCI detectives to Moses Ogembo, whom he claimed sold him the cellular device.

The DCI told the court it needed more time to detain Momanyi saying his “rental house within Pipeline Estate is still an active crime scene which is believed to hold more evidence, and which has not been forensically documented for security reasons.”

“The scene of crime is still an active crime scene and therefore sufficient time is required to forensically document it ensuring all body remains are retrieved, recovered and postmortem done in order to ascertain the cause of death,” said the DCI during the court proceedings.