He was revealed to have been at a club where he had gone to watch the Euro 2024 football finals between Spain and England when the detectives outside the premises accosted him.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Monday, July 15 announced the arrest of Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, the main suspect in the heinous Kware killings that have sparked uproar across the nation.
In a press statement, DCI boss, Mohamed Amin revealed that the 33-year-old was arrested in the morning hours at Soweto in Kayole Sub-County at around 3 am in a joint operation by the DCI Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau and Operations directorates.
He was revealed to have been at a club where he had gone to watch the Euro 2024 football finals between Spain and England when the detectives outside the premises accosted him.
His pursuit and subsequent arrest followed forensic analysis of a mobile phone belonging to one of the victims, Josphine Mulongo Owino, where mobile money transactions conducted on the day she went missing pointed to the suspect.
“Upon his arrest, the suspect led officers to his single-room rented house in Kware, which is located about 100m from the crime scene where the bodies and body parts have been recovered,” read the statement in part.
A quick search was conducted in the house, which led to the recovery of the following crucial exhibits:
1. 24 Airtel Sim cardholders with new sim cards
2. 8 smartphones, two feature phones
3. One Laptop and one hard drive
4. Two flash drives and one phone memory card
5. One Machete
6. 12 Nylon Sacks
7. One pair of industrial rubber gloves
8. 6 ID cards for men and 2 ID cards for women
9. One pink female handbag
10. 2 female panties
11. 5 rolls of bhang
12. 4 huge clear sellotape
13. One nylon rope
14. One reflector Jacket
15. 2 title deeds
16. 2 notebooks
17. Assorted documents
On interrogation, the suspect confessed to having lured, killed, and disposed of 42 female bodies at the dumping site, all murdered between 2022 and Thursday, July 11, 2024.
“The suspect alleges that his first victim was his wife namely Imelda Judith Khalenya whom he strangled to death before dismembering her body and disposing it at the site,” added Amin.
From his interrogation, all his victims have been murdered in like manner. Investigations are still ongoing and the suspect’s house and the dumping site remain active crime scenes.
Amin appealed to families who reasonably believe that their loved ones may have fallen prey to these macabre murders to report to DCI headquarters or any DCI office near them.
More to follow…