In the recent weeks, the country has endured a circus of killings and kidnappings ranging from children to adults with a sizeable number turning up dead.
In the same, period, Kenyans have been introduced to self-professed serial killers with a combined tally of 17 murders behind their trail.
Shockingly, the serial killers were gracious enough to take detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to exact locations where they buried their victims.
It turns out, however, the country has seen quite a number of serial murderers over time with each recording a body count of atleast 5 killings.
Below are five of the most vicious murders that have rocked the country over time.
1. Evans Wafula
In a Saturday, July 17 statement, DCI officers noted that they had in custody a suspected serial killer responsible for the murder of five children.
Wafula is believed to have lured the minors aged between 10 and 15 from different locations within Moi’s Bridge in Uasin-Gishu county where he defiled and killed them.
According to the DCI, Wafula took detectives on a re-enactment of how he lured the minors identified as Linda Cherono, 13, Mary Elusa, 14, Grace Njeri, 12, Stacy Nabiso, 10 and Lucy Wanjiru, 15.
He took the detectives to some of the scenes where they found the remains of his victims.
2. Masten Wanjala Milimo
Two days before Wafula confessed, the media had been awash with gruesome headlines of another serial killer with a self-confessed body count of 13.
During interrogation, the 20-year-old admitted to sucking the children's blood before he killed them.
"I'm sometimes normal and even play soccer with others well...people even know me to be mild-mannered," Wanjala stated.
Later, in a fresh turn of events, Milimo claimed that he carried out the murders with the help of another man only identified as Isaac.
He was barely 16 when he first killed his first victim, Purity Maweu, a 12-year-old girl.
3. Philip Onyancha
Onyancha, probably one of the most famous serial killers in the country, shook the nation in 2010 after confessing that he had murdered 17 women.
He had noted, at the time, that he had been directed by a mysterious cult leader that he should drink blood from 100 people.
"My target was to kill 100 women. I managed 17 and there were 83 to go," he told the press at the time.
He also noted that he had been recruited by a Kiambu based teacher at Mahiga High School in 1996.
In July 2021, a Nairobi Court, however, acquitted self-confessed serial killer Phillip Onyancha of the murder case of Chepngetich Misoi that happened in 2008.
4. Geoffrey Matheri
Geoffrey Matheri alias Fungo rose to prominence in 2008 after two women were rescued from a house in Naisha while in deplorable state unable to speak.
It turned out, Fungo was determined to suck their blood and eat their flesh as they watched.
The serial killer, at the time, confessed that he could dig shallow graves where he could bury them before keeping their underwear as a trophy.
He was was charged with murder and disclosed at the time that he would carry some of the blood to a bishop named Jeremiah Pallangyo.
5. Edward Maina Shimoli
In just 10 years, Edward Shimoli confessed to killing 14 people, raping 88 women aside from taking part in various bank robberies.
Referred to as Carlos the Jackal, the serial killer did not spare anyone including his wife as well as brother-in-law.
He was charged with murder and jailed at Kamiti Maximum Prison where he escaped four times while serving his sentence.
He was shot dead in 2007 shortly after being released from prison.
