The mother-in-law of a suspected serial killer has disclosed that her daughter, the first alleged victim, went silent on social media in 2022.
Police had said the suspect confessed that his first victim was his wife Imelda Judith Khalenya whom he strangled to death before dismembering her body and disposing it at the same site.
Khalenya’s mother Josephine Adisa walked to the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) headquarters on Monday evening on getting news her daughter was the first victim.
The distraught mother said she lost contact with her deceased daughter in 2021 after she dropped out of school left their home in Moi’s Bridge, Uasin Gishu County.
She said the girl would contact her friends on social media.
Adisa said the deceased daughter never communicated since 2022.
The mother explained that she didn’t report to the police since they could still monitor her through her social media accounts.
“She went missing but sometimes we could see her chatting with people on social media. But in 2022, her accounts went dormant; she wasn’t responding to our messages. Since that time, I never heard of her until now when I was told she was murdered,” Josephine said.
“I didn’t report her missing because she was active online, but in 2022, her sisters told me her accounts were inactive.”
The woman is a domestic worker in Nairobi’s Fedha estate, which is not far from where her daughter was probably killed and dumped.
She said she received a call from her younger brother informing her that her daughter had been murdered and was among the victims of the Kware killings.
She was by then she was not aware of the death of her daughter.
“My brother told me that Imelda has another name, ‘Akinyi,’ and she had been cut into pieces. Then he hung up. I then called my brother Boni, who told me to relax. He said he was searching for a certain report then he’d let me know,” she narrated.
“I was shocked, and I left my place of work (Fedha Estate) immediately and went home. I proceeded to Kware together with my daughter. I went to the police station before I was called to come and record my statement here.”
Adisa told journalists that someone once called her in 2021 saying he was a pastor and that he was married to her daughter.
Adisa said because she was busy then, she never met this man and she is not sure whether he is the same Collins Jomaisa who was arrested on suspicion of being the prime suspect behind the macabre murders.
“There is nobody who knew him (the suspect). But there is somebody who used to call me claiming that he was married to Imelda towards the end of 2021,” she said.
“When it got to 2022, another person called me claiming that he was married to her. He said he was a pastor staying at Sinai. He started shouting at me and I told him to stay with her if she was good.”
“When I heard of her death, the pain was incomparable to her wrongs. She is still my dear child,” she said.
Adisa requested the government to ensure justice prevails because she is in pain over her daughter’s murder, even though she made mistakes.
