Masten Wanjala, who was known to police as a “bloodthirsty vampire,” confessed to killing at least 10 children in Kenya before he was lynched by an angry mob after escaping from police
A man dubbed a “bloodthirsty vampire” by authorities admitted to murdering at least 10 children before meeting his own violent end.
Masten Wanjala enticed his young prey by posing as a sports coach, then led them to isolated locations where he would savagely strangle them or bludgeon them with blunt instruments.
The serial murderer would occasionally sedate the children, and even consumed the blood of certain victims, the BBC reported. Police revealed that their bodies were frequently abandoned in undergrowth or thrown into drainage systems across Nairobi.
Wanjala was merely a teenager when he claimed his first life – a 12 year old girl he kidnapped in Machakos County, east of Nairobi, Kenya in 2016, AFP reports.
Authorities finally apprehended him on July 14, 2021, in relation to the deaths of two boys aged 12 and 13, reports the Mirror.
Wanjala subsequently admitted to slaying at least 10 children, “sometimes through sucking blood from their veins before executing them,” the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) stated at the time. He also guided officers to the locations of some of his victims.
Then, three months following his capture, on October 13, 2021, the 20-year-old fled from Jogoo Road police station, triggering an extensive manhunt throughout Nairobi.
The man’s father informed a local Kenya News channel at the time that he was “surprised” his son had absconded. “I have not seen him,” Robert Wanjala said.
“And I’m not interested in seeing him.”
On 15 October, Wanjala was recognised by schoolchildren in his native Bungoma, approximately 250 miles from Nairobi.
“He comes from this area and so the children saw him and knew it was him, and that is when information spread around and locals started pursuing him,” area administrator Bonface Ndiema said, per AFP. “In the end he ran into a neighbour’s house, but he was flushed out and lynched.”
Wanjala was subsequently strangled to death by a furious crowd, according to a witness. “The law of the jungles as applied by irate villages prevailed,” the Kenyan Directorate of Criminal Investigations wrote in a post on X after Wanjala’s death.
Grace Adhiambo, whose teenage son Brian Omondi fell victim to Wanjala, told the BBC she was desperate to understand his motives.
“I would have loved to see him in court, so that I get to know why he did this – why he brutally killed our children and left us with pain,” she said.
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