A 26-year-old hair braider named Josephine Owino disappeared one morning last month in the sprawling shantytown of Mukuru Kwa Njenga in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, after going out suddenly to see someone who had just phoned.
Ms. Owino’s younger sister, Peris Keya, was desperate to find her, and went to three police stations pleading for help.
But nothing happened until Ms. Keya said she had a startling dream one night: Her sister appeared, led her up a hill and begged her to search in a pool of water.
The dump was searched only because Ms. Keya, 24, beseeched some local men to help, paying them for the grisly task.
On Monday, the Kenyan police announced that they had arrested a suspected serial killer, who they said had confessed to killing 42 women, including his own wife, in the past two years, and throwing them into the dump.
Persons:
Josephine Owino, Owino’s, Peris Keya, Keya
Organizations:
Kenyan police
Locations:
Kwa, Kenya’s, Nairobi