Suspected serial killer Evans Juma Wanjala confessed to five murders of young girls aged between 10 and 15 years after he was arrested by police.

Homicide investigator Chief Inspector Romana Oduor of the DCI told the High Court in Eldoret that Wanjala enacted the chilling account of how he committed the murders and took police to all the scenes of crime.

She said she was called in on July 7th 2021 to help probe a series murders of the young girls among them Stacy Nabiswa.

The girls had been found murdered and their bodies dumped or buried in separate areas within Moi’s Bridge township in Uasin Gishu county

Romana said she was called in when two suspects among them Wanjala were already in police custody but one of them was later released.

Romana said part of her work was to help carry out DNA tests on samples taken from bodies of the deceased, from Items recovered and compare the same blood samples taken from Wanjala.

While investigating Nabiswa's death she established that her mother Sharon Sakwa had clothes which her daughter was putting on at the time she was killed.

Romana said she took the clothes and extracted samples which were subjected to tests along with the samples taken from the deceased and Wanjala.

She said Nabiswa had been defiled before being killed.

"The results of the tests we carried out indicated that the DNA samples collected matched with those taken from Wanjala", said Romana.

Romana was testifying in a case in which Wanjala is charged that on the night of December 31, 2019 and January 1, 2020 in Soweto estate within Moi’s Bridge he murdered Stacy Achieng Nabiso.

The suspect also separately faces other charges including that between June 11 and 15 2021 at Moi's Bridge within Soy sub-county he murdered Linda Cherono.

Another count he faces states that between December 15 and 16, 2020 in Yuiyabei village Moi’s Bridge within Uasin Gishu he murdered Mary Elusa.

Another DCI officer Luta Brigid also testified and produces photographs taken at the scene where Nabiswa's body was found.

Dr Dennis Nanyingi from the Kitake Referral also testified and told the court that he carried out a postmortem which showed that Nabiswa dies of strangulation and that she had been defiled.

During the investigations, the DCI in a statement at that time had said the minors, all aged between the age of 10 and 15, were lured by the suspect from different locations within Moi’s Bridge, before being taken to secluded areas where he defiled and strangled them.

The DCI added that the suspect gave account of how he killed the five girls.

"In a chilling confession by the killer who took detectives on a re-enactment of how he executed his missions, he gave a blow-by-blow account of how he took away the lives of Linda Cherono, 13, Mary Elusa, 14, Grace Njeri, 12, Stacy Nabiso, 10 and Lucy Wanjiru, 15, after defiling them," DCI explained in the statement at the time the suspect was arrested.

In the statement the DCI also said the pedophile had led detectives to the scene of every murder he had committed, where remains of the murdered minors had earlier been recovered.

The hearing will continue on January 31st 2024.