Serial killer ‘murdered women he met in bars and buried more than ten victims in a hole in his kitchen’

A serial killer allegedly murdered women he met in bars and buried more than ten of his victims in a hole he dug in his kitchen in Rwanda, it has emerged.

The 34-year-old man, identified as Denis Kazungu Local mediawas arrested Tuesday and confessed to studying his victims before stalking and luring them back to his rented house in a suburb of the capital Kigali.

Kazungu admitted to police that once his victims, who were mostly prostitutes, entered his property, he would rob them of their belongings before strangling them to death and dumping their bodies in a hole he dug in his kitchen.

Shocked police officers discovered more than a dozen decomposing bodies piled up in the well when they searched the man’s home after he admitted to the murders.

Kazungu confessed that he had learned to kill by watching documentaries about famous serial killers and that he would mainly choose women from prostitution as his victims because they were likely to have no close family or friends who would look for them, according to the police.

A source at the Rwanda Investigation Bureau said the number of victims discovered so far was 14, but Thierry Murangira, a spokesman for the RIB, declined to give a definitive number until the forensic investigation was completed. The victims have yet to be identified.

Kazungu admitted to police that he dissolved some of his victims in acid, meaning there could be more victims whose bodies will never be found.

He was initially arrested in July on charges including robbery and rape, but was granted bail for lack of evidence, Murangira said, quoted by local media.

But on Monday, police had gone to Kazungu’s rented premises to evict him, after his landlord told them he had had defaulted on rent payments for the past seven months.

A police officer told the Rwandan newspaper The New Times that Kazungu has fought.

He apologized and cried excessively, which raised our suspicions. We apprehended him and I personally took him to the police station,” the official said.

“It’s at the police station where he confessed to killing some people, prompting RIB to investigate his home.”

Police arrested the suspected serial killer on Tuesday and searched his home, leading to the discovery of the bodies dumped in the hole he dug in his kitchen.

“The suspect confessed that he learned how to kill by watching famous serial killers. He dissolved some of his victims in acid,” the RIB source said.

“He studied his victims before stalking them and usually looked for those who most likely don’t have close family or friends to look out for them.”

Murangira said the suspect had confessed to the murders during interrogation and preliminary investigations had shown that the victims were both men and women.

“He operated by luring his victims, mostly prostitutes, to his house, where he robbed them of their phones and belongings, then strangled them to death and buried them in a hole dug in the kitchen of his rented house,” he added. .

It is believed that most of Kazungu’s victims were women he met in bars, police say.

His neighbors told local media that they sometimes heard women screaming at night, but they didn’t think anything unusual was going on.

A survivor who escaped the serial killer’s clutches reportedly led to his arrest, but police say he confessed after being evicted for not paying his rent for seven months.