Police in Rwanda have detained a suspected serial killer, 34, who is alleged to have murdered and buried more than ten bodies in his kitchen.
The man was evicted by the police from his rental home in the Kicukiro district, a suburb of Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, and it was then that they learned of the murders.
His landlord had asked them to do so as he had defaulted on rent for the last seven months.
When they attempted to evict him on Monday, a police official said he resisted, according to Rwanda’s local newspaper.
“He apologized and cried excessively, which raised our suspicions. We detained him and I personally took him to the police. It is at the police station where he confessed to having killed some people, prompting RIB [Rwanda Investigation Bureau] to investigate his residence,” the official said.
The man admitted, according to the police, to luring his victims from bars, robbing them, killing them, and then burying them in a hole he had dug up in his kitchen. He also admitted to dissolving some of his victims in acid.
Thierry Murangira, a representative for the Rwanda Investigation Bureau, confirmed the victims’ gender as both male and female.
He told the AFP news agency that sex workers had mainly been targeted.
According to the authorities, the man was detained in July on suspicion of robbing, raping, and threatening a number of women but was later released due to a lack of evidence.
Although Mr. Murangira stated that the police were still determining the exact number of victims, an anonymous police source told AFP that they had recovered 14 bodies.
Source-BBC
