Self-Confessed Serial Killer Leads Detectives To The Graves Of His Victims In Bungoma

BUNGOMA, Kenya, Sept 1-Self-confessed serial killer Marsden Wanjala on Wednesday led a team of police officers from the homicide team to several homes in Bungoma county, where he confessed to having killed and buried his victims.

Wanjala who has killed a total of 12 people also confessed to have sodomised and sucked the blood of the victims before killing them.

The headed by homicide unit boss Martin Nyuguto has pitched a tent in the county where the 20 years old man hails from.

They visited Sosio village in Kamukuywa ward, Kimilili constituency where one of the victims, a nine-year-old Emmanuel Wafula was killed and his body dumped in a pit latrine in February 2019.

The decomposing body was discovered days later in the pit latrine by a neighbor who informed residents.

The death of the class two pupil at King Star academy had then irked residents who stormed the homestead where the body was found and torched it before destroying properties.

Police had also arrested the owner of the homestead Haron Acheka on suspicion of being behind the killing of the minor.

Acheka died last year in August at Webuye County hospital after battling some illness.

Mary Acheka, the widow said that her husband who was out on bond died due to the stress of being accused of being behind the death of the minor.