For several weeks, the Kenyan police had been under pressure.
Two children disappeared a day.
On Wednesday July 14, two bodies of children were found in a wooded area in the capital Nairobi.
Masten Milimo Wanjala, 20, was arrested on Wednesday for the killings.
Police say the man admitted to the murder of at least a dozen children over the past five years.
His victims, aged 12 to 13, were drugged and bloodless, some of them having been strangled, police said.
The killer "
sucked blood from their veins before executing them
"
"
Wanjala slaughtered his victims alone in the most ruthless manner, sometimes sucking blood from their veins before executing them,
" the Criminal Investigations Directorate (DCI) said on Twitter, which described him as a "
thirsty vampire for blood
”.
Wanjala's first victim, police said, was a 12-year-old girl kidnapped five years ago in Machakos County, east of Nairobi.
The murder of his next victim sparked fierce protests in western Kenya, where residents set fire to the house of a person they suspected of having killed the boy.
"
In a precise and harrowing account, the murderer told terrible details of how he lured his victims into his killer claws before snatching the lives of these innocent children
," the DCI said on Twitter. The remains of some children "
were thrown into thickets
", others "
abandoned in the city sewers
," she said, adding that the bodies of several other children who are feared to have been killed by Wanjala have not yet been found.
In 2009, Philippe Onyancha, 32, was arrested for similar facts about women.
"
I can not say that I did not know any of these victims, because when I had this need to drink blood, I went straight to my target,
" the murderer told reporters.
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