This archive report was first published on 5 October 2019.
On October 5, 2019, a chilling story of a serial killer emerged in Uasin Gishu County, where a man named Mustafa Idd walked into a police station in Moi's Bridge and confessed to killing his girlfriend, Emma Wanyotta.
According to interviews with his friends and family members, Idd had been fantasizing about killing women and cutting their bodies into pieces for months.
He had told his close friends that he would kill any woman who dared leave him for another man and then move around Moi's Bridge with the body parts packed in a suitcase.
Emma, a 21-year-old student, had terminated a short-term relationship with Idd, and he killed her and cut up her body into pieces, according to his confession to police.
Sheila Wanyotta, Emma's sister, recalled a conversation with Idd earlier this year, where he told her that no woman could get the better of him and that he would go to any length, including killing, to prove his point.
Sheila remembered Idd saying, 'He kept saying that women are weak people... He said it was so easy to strangle women, and that were the woman he is accused of killing to ever resurrect he would get a panga and cut her into pieces to ensure she is 'properly dead'.'
Sheila did not report the confession and threat to anyone, including the police, because she believed that Idd was just bluffing, as he always did about so many other things.
However, Idd's past actions suggest that he was not just bluffing. He had previously killed his girlfriend, Nancy Naromboi Edome, two years ago, and was released on a Sh1 million bond after denying the charges.
Documents at the Kitale Law Courts indicate that Idd faces murder charges for the death of Nancy on July 25, 2017, in Kapkoi village, Kiminini sub-county.
On Friday, Moi's Bridge leaders urged the court to stop releasing people accused of murder on bond without considering their backgrounds.
Nominated MP Belinda Tirop said investigators and prosecutors should help find justice for the two families.
