Manhunt for accomplices

Detectives drawn from Kericho, Nyamira and Nyando districts have stepped up the hunt for the accomplices of the second self confessed serial killer, George Otieno Okoth.

The suspect told police officers that he belonged to a religious cult involved in killing for human hair.

The suspect confessed to killing seven people including his latest victim in Keroka Town at the weekend.

Otieno, 22, said he was introduced to the cult while at Muhoroni Secondary School. At one time, he attempted to kill his girlfriend of one year in vain.

The lady escaped with injuries and lived to narrate her ordeal to the police on Tuesday after she heard of Otieno's arrest.

Nyamira OCPD, Shadrack Maithya said detectives from Bondo, Nyando and Kericho where Otieno said he killed his targets had joined in the investigations to piece together evidence to charge him.

The security officers have been moving from one suspected crime scene to another looking for evidence.

"The suspect told us he safely keeps his victims' hair after killing them. We caught him with human hair which he confessed belonged to his latest victim," Maithya said.

Otieno said the cult is not interested in money or blood from the victims but human hair which they produce to their seniors to appraise their progress.

He confessed that they use a knife to slit open their victim's throat before shaving them.

The murder suspect who shocked the police with the ease in which he made the confessions said members of the cult meet every last Friday of the month in Kisumu, Kericho or Nairobi to exchange ideas.

Otieno who hails from Uyoma in Rarieda District was found with a passport issued to him last year and is due for expiry in 2019.

He voluntarily disclosed that he had killed three people in Bondo, two in Nyando, one in Kapsoit and another in Keroka.

His revelations come barely a week after another self confessed serial killer Philip Onyancha was arraigned in court.