Paul Magara, 29, is suspected of having murdered three women and seriously injured four others and is said to have been a nightmare for Ruiru residents for the last four months.
“The masked Magara occasionally struck ladies in the hours of darkness, killing and seriously injuring some before running away with their panties. It all started with one such shocking incident in 2020 in Kiunguru area around Ruiru Bypass, when a woman who had been seen with a man a night before was found dead in her room, with one of her breasts chopped off,” a statement by DCI read in part.
Magara has shockingly been on the detective’s list of wanted persons since 2020 but has been on the run avoiding the long arm of the law.
“Believing that the attacker was still around Wataalam at that early hour, police in Ruiru launched a thorough comb of the area, luckily managing to nab four suspects and recovering a mobile phone that belonged to one of the sisters attacked in the September seven incident,” DCI said.
Prior to his arrest, Magara has never been apprehended nor interrogated.
Magara is suspected to have killed a middle-aged woman whose decomposing body was discovered in her rental house in the Magorofani area of Wataalam.
“In what called for a round-the-clock manhunt for the perpetrator by all Ruiru sub-county officers, the killer struck again on September 7, by breaking into the house of two sisters aged 18 and 19, where he stabbed and left them for dead. One of them is still admitted at Kenyatta National Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit,” DCI said.
The psychopathic hitman is also believed to have attacked a couple on an early Wednesday morning when they were asleep, stabbing the woman in the neck and vanishing in the dark in seconds.
“The husband rushed his 22-year-old lactating woman to the hospital, amidst shock as to how their attacker managed to master their padlock from outside, execute the attack and disappear as he soundly snored. The woman is recuperating well,” DCI added.
The prime suspect was ambushed and nabbed on Thursday morning as he headed to have breakfast at his brother’s home.