Kenyan police announced on Monday the arrest of a “mentally disturbed serial killer” who confessed to killing 42 women, after the discovery of nine mutilated bodies in a landfill in the capital, Nairobi.

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Collins Juma Mshosha, 33, who was arrested in Nairobi, confessed to “luring 42 women, killing them, and disposing of their bodies in the landfill” in the Mukuru neighborhood, south of the Kenyan capital, according to the head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Amin Mohamed, during a press conference. The criminal was arrested at a site where he “had gone to watch the final of the European Football Championship” on Sunday evening, while he “was trying to attract another victim” when the police apprehended him, according to authorities.

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The suspect was found after analyzing the phone data of one of the victims. The head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations indicated that authorities found a machete in the suspect’s home “which we believe was used to dismember the victims,” describing him as a “vampire.”

He added, “It is very unfortunate and sad that the accused confirmed that his first victim was his wife, whom he strangled before dismembering her body and throwing it” in the landfill.

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These murders occurred between 2022 and 2024 according to the same source. Kenyan authorities say that nine bodies have been found so far, at least eight of which are women, in the landfill between Friday and Sunday. The ages of the eight victims ranged from 18 to 30 years, according to Mohamed.