The Lusaka Strangler Files - Revisited

NKHWAZI MAGAZINE 1980
Re-typed and compiled from a Photocopy by Henry Nasilele 2013
The Lusaka Strangler Files
214-day search for the killer
By Nnawa Kwaleyela and Max Ekheni
(NOTE: This document was re-typed from a photocopy of the “NKHWAZI” Police Magazine of
1980 by Henry Nasilele in April 2013)
DURING the first nine months of 1980. Lusaka was terrorised by an elusive villain who was soon
dubbed by the news media as the “Lusaka Strangler". From incidents of gruesome deaths ascribed to
him, the Strangler seduced young women in the evenings from such places as the former Kamwala
Inter-City Bus terminal, the railway station or other public places and led them to some dark alleys to
rape and kill them mainly by strangulation. The victims were often stranded visitors to the Capital or
those in transit.
In all, 31 young women fell victim of the strangler, 29 of which were murdered outright while two
escaped death by miracle to help the police later in their investigations. ln what the police code-
named “Operation Rosemary" the search for the murderers took them 214 days from January 5 the
day they received a report of the first victim to the capture of the principal strangler suspect.
The investigations, however, came to an abrupt end; the suspected strangler never saw the inside of
a court of law. He took his own life some 76 hours from the time he was apprehended. Inevitably
the grotesque case of the Lusaka strangler has to this day left many questions unanswered.
It is seldom that a story such as this one is told without being labelled `chronique scandaleuse`
meant to smear at the characters in the drama and expose them to ill-repute. Far from it. The
writers of this article pledge necessity arising out of national interest to bring to light the events that
led to the capture of one of Zambia‘s most sinister criminals and expose the heroic acts of 'Zambians
who died, and those who survived from the fiend’s hands to tell the story.
Further, as what follow is based on the official police dossiers on the Lusaka Strangler it should save
to alert those who could fall victims of similar criminal machinations from sacrificing their personal
security.
As world records of homicide stood by 1979, not many Zambians would have thought that the
malevolence of the Boston Strangler of the United States or Jack the Ripper of Britain could ever be
equalled in Zambia or indeed that any Zambian could have a lust for murder in such a cold blooded
manner as the Lusaka Strangler.
An anonymous telephone call on January 5, 1980 signalled the Lusaka Central Police to the incidents
that were to follow during this unhappy year. The message was to the effect that a body of a dead
woman was lying in the play field behind Lusaka Boys Primary School.
When police officers who were led by inspector Gondwe visited the scene they found the body in a`
semi-decomposed state. As a result it was not possible to specify the cause of death. But they were
able to reason that the woman was killed elsewhere and the body dumped on the play field.
However, from the effects which were scattered around the body the police managed to identify

the woman as Miss Grace Siambilu aged 21 years. Further investigations revealed that she had
travelled from Sinazongwe on January 2 and dropped off a north-bound train at Lusaka railway
station on or about January 4 to deliver a letter to her brother working for Namboard.
The following day she was to proceed to Kitwe where she was to attend interviews at the Zambia
Institute of Technology. She never did. The Police investigations failed to trace the murderers at
the time.
On January 6, Woodlands Police Station received a similar report to the one received by Lusaka
Central a day before. A body of a dead woman was found lying by a foot path off Chitukuko Road.
After examining the body police established that the woman was first raped and then strangled at
that same place
There were marks of violence on an area six metres in radius evidenced by scattered beads
ripped from the woman’s waist and a torn knickers found four metres from the body. Bruises
were also noted on the woman’s body especially on the sides of the neck and on the navel while
blood and what looked like foam oozed from her mouth and nose.
Efforts to get the woman identified failed. Police investigations again offered no leads to who the-
murderers could be.
And so the nights of terror had begun for Lusaka. Similar murders were reported to the police in
succession. (See “Briefs on Strangler victims” on facing page). There were six in January, five each in
February and March, three in April, two in May, three in June, and two each in July and September.
There were also one each attempted murder in July and September.
Puzzled Lusaka detectives got busy. Known hoodlums in Lusaka and those who were believed to
have had contacts with the victims immediately before the at met their fate were interrogated by
the police. But these efforts and other police investigations always reached a dead end.
However, the murder of Miss Clodia Maimbolwa on January 30, would have probably given a lead to
the capture of the culprits had police not over looked evidence offered by a security guard from
Premium House during their handling of the cases.
Former Commissioner of Police Mubuka Sinyinda who was then in-charge of the C.l.D. at the Force
Headquarters chided the police on this and wrote to the Lusaka Division asking why “there was no
explanation nor a statement recorded from the Zambia State Insurance Security guard (Mr Paul
Mutale) who had seen the girl in the company of a soldier at mid-night walking towards Nasser
Road from the railway station before she was found dead in the morning.

BRIEFS ON THE STRANGLER VICTIMS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jan 5: Grace Shambilu, 21. Semi-decomposed body found at Lusaka Boys Primary School football
ground. She was allegedly killed elsewhere before the body was dumped at the football ground. She
came from Sinazongwe and was in transit to Kitwe by train, cause of death not determined.
Jan 6: Unidentified female, aged about 21. Body found along a path near Chitukuko Road,
Woodlands. She was allegedly raped and strangled where body was found.
Jan 12: Florence Mwangelwa Mulima, 21. Body found behind NIPA offices. Victim allegedly raped
and murdered where body was found. She had travelled by train from Mazabuka to
Lusaka. She was doing Form lll.
Jan 14: Priscilla Ndhlovu 10. Body found in a maize field between Olympia Park and Northmead.
She was sent to buy, some groceries by her parents to buy some groceries before she allegedly met
her death by strangulation.
Jan 28: Regina Munanga, 25. Body found between UNZA campus and Show Grounds. She was
allegedly raped and strangled where body was found. A woman police officer, in transit from
Livingstone to Mufulira, on official duties. She came by train.
Jan 30: Clodia Maimbolwa 21. Body found at Freedom Statute near Nasser Road. She was allegedly
strangled where body was found. She was in transit from Choma to Senanga, she came by train. Last
seen in company of a soldier.
Feb 7: Millian Chipeta 20. Body found in a maize field between City Airport and Longacres. She was
allegedly strangled with a scarf where body was found. She came from Kitwe to Lusaka by bus.
Feb 10: Unidentified Woman aged about 18 to 21. Body found along Washama Road, Villa
Elizabetha. She was raped and strangled elsewhere before body was dumped at Villa Elizabetha.
Feb 11: Fosta Kaela. 10 Body found in a maize field between Kalingalinga and City Airport. Victim
was allegedly strangled by a man who left boot footmarks. She was coming from Lusaka Girls
Primary School.
Feb 17: Grace Mutondo, 26. Body found at Lukunga Football pitch behind Inter-Continental Hotel.
She was allegedly raped and strangled. Known to have come from a disco at the hotel.
Feb 25: Fridah Ncube, 32. Body found lying near Maxwell House hostels next to Lusaka Girls Primary
School. She came from Choma in transit to Zimbabwe. Footprints found on the path indicated she
was allegedly picked from Inter-Continental Hotel before she was strangled.
March 13: Jane Malako, 18. Body found along a footpath near Chitukuko Road, Woodlands. She was
a student travelling from Livingstone to Senanga via Lusaka. Victim was allegedly strangled after
being picked from Kamwala bus station.

March 13: Hilda Banda, 18. Body found at Kamwala Secondary School playfield. She was allegedly
strangled with her belt. She was last reported to have gone to Lusaka Hotel.
March 15: Agather Musa Nasilele aged about 18. Body found along a foot path near the Show
Grounds. She was a Form III student travelling from Magoye to Western Province via Lusaka. She
was allegedly raped and strangled.
March 23: Emeldah Monde Chabazwa, 26. Body found lying in bush near Chitukuko Road,
Woodlands. She was a student travelling from Mongu to Monze via Lusaka. She was allegedly raped
and strangled and before body was dumped near Chitukuko Road.
March 25: Miriam Chiwala, 15. Body found between Duly Motors and Chibolya compound. She was
allegedly raped and strangled. A cardboard message found near the body had the message:
“Nothing to say guys and don’t mind all what I told you when you were going for elections.
Comrades no woman now. Please my friend be careful how you walk, yours no woman now.”
April 4: Maggie Mwanza, 21. Body found along a footpath near junction of Lubu Road and Chisekela
Road, Longacres. Allegedly dumped here after being raped and strangled. She had travelled from
Kabwe to Lusaka
April 7: Regina Mumba, 25. Body found behind Ndeke House near City Airport. She was allegedly
strangled. A student nurse at Katete, she was in transit from Kitwe after a holiday.
May 4: Unidentified young woman. Body found at the gate of Woodlands Stadium where she was
allegedly raped and strangled.
May 14: Kwaleyela Situmbeko, 24. Body found along foot path joining Kafue Road near Crushed
Stone Sales Ltd. and John Laing compound. A student at Kitwe Teacher Training College was from
holiday in Senanga via Lusaka. She was allegedly raped and strangled.
June 10: Rosemary Mufula Chuma, 24. A resident of Chawama compound. Body found in the bushes
near Namboard opposite Lenco. Allegedly picked from a roadside where she used to sell milk. She
was raped and killed before dumped near Namboard. An open wound was found on her forehead.
June 16: Lita Mabango, 18. Body found hanged by the neck against NIPA fence with four stab
wounds on the chest. She was four months pregnant and used to work for Steak House. She was
allegedly strangled.
June 30: Jenny Mwitila Pumulo, 20. Body found near Kabwata Primary School. A student of Monze
Agricultural College, she was in transit from Mongu to Pemba. She was allegedly raped and
strangled.
July 16: Norah Soko, 19. She survived the attack by the strangler. She had travelled from Kitwe to
Lusaka. She was picked by the strangler from Kamwala bus station and taken to a foot path leading
to Kalingalinga near Municipal Sports Club where she was found lying and screaming in agony.
June 21: Agness Mwelwa aged about 22. Body found lying in the bush near Libala Secondary School.
She had travelled from Kitwe to Lusaka. She was allegedly strangled with a piece of cloth found
round her neck.

Sept 12: Mary Chisanga. Body found near Chisekela road between Municipal Sports Club and Central
Sports Club with her umbilical mutilated and intestines protruding out. She was allegedly picked
from railway station where she had escorted her boyfriend who was going to Kabwe.
Sept 17: Josephine Nora Mukatasha. Second victim to survive strangler’s attack. She was in transit
from Chingola to Mumbwa when she was picked from Kamwala bus station. She was left for dead
after being attacked near Kamwala Secondary School.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A murder victim left dead by the Strangler
By the end of January after the police had picked up six dead bodies of young women, they were
able to at least establish that the murders were the work of a homicidal maniac or a gang of such
maniacs who lured girls coming into Lusaka from other towns, raped them then murdered them.
Usually the fiend committed his sinister acts in places which had sufficient cover, such as bushy
areas and then dumped the victims onto a foot path or some open space for everybody to see.
As the murders became more and more daring the public became more concerned, with the press
leading the campaign calling for the police to intensify its search for the strangler.
The press even suggested that the Government bring in police officers from Britain’s New Scotland
Yard and G.D.R’s Bundeskriminalamt. crack European investigation departments, to come and
reinforce the Zambian C.I.D.
The Party and its Government, however, felt this would be too costly a venture. Besides Zambia
being a sovereign state, it was the government’s duty to solve an internal problem such as this one.
Meanwhile the police launched a campaign through advertising in the news media and by posters in

which they advised women travelling to Lusaka to be wary of strange men offering them lifts or
escorts.
A reward of K10, 000 was offered to anyone with information leading to the arrest of the murderers
of young women in the City. The Government slapped a dusk to dawn curfew restricting the
movement of people in Lusaka.
The moves, however, did not stop the killers from luring women to their deaths. By June 16, the
number of those killed had soared to 23 with the gruesome murder of I8, year old Miss Lita
Mabango who had been strangled and crudely hanged from the fence which surrounds NIPA.
Because of the gravity of the situation the Police Force had by then drawn top-notch officers from
all over the country to form a temporary homicide squad known as Special Investigation Team (SIT).
It was headed by Supt. William Mundia who was then D.C.l.O. - Southern.
Recalling the engagement of this team in an interview, Mr Mundia who is now Senior
Superintendent said apart from wanting to quickly trace and capture the strangler, the first task of
SIT was to determine whether the strangler was one person or a gang of men with the same motive.
But since the method used in the murders, were similar in all cases, “we soon concluded that the
killer was most likely one person.”
The common features found on the victims included visible strangulation marks on the bodies,
ripped pants and mucus or foam oozing from the nose which indicated that the killer could have also
been using some chemicals, Mr Mundia said.
He added, “SIT also wished to determine the motive behind the murders. But we couldn’t come to
any firm conclusion on this because at the time we nearly touched the point the suspected strangler
vanished by committing suicide.”
However as soon as SIT established the strangler’s modus operandi, the detectives closed up on
the target areas of the killer’s operations.
On July 16, Detective Constable Chikoti was among some members of SIT who were deplored to
carry out surveillance at Kamwala bus station when from about 19.30 hours he saw a soldier dressed
in combat speaking for a long time to a young woman who was dressed in a green dress with white
stripes. Getting somewhat suspicious he took in their descriptions and noted that the man had some
traditional marks on his face, he was beardless, slightly short and stout. The woman was brown, tall
and slim with a lot of hair.
After half an hour the couple left the bus stop going towards old Kamwala and disappeared into
the night. The following day he learnt that a woman answering to the description-of the one he saw
the previous night had narrowly escaped death from the Lusaka strangler. That’s how close he
was to become a hero had he picked that soldier.
The woman in this case was Miss Nora Soko of Chimwemwe Township, Kitwe. In her report tog
the police she said she had travelled to Lusaka to see her parents who were living in Makeni.
She arrived at Kamwala bus terminus when it was already getting dark and as she was indeed
at that time apprehensive about the now notorious Lusaka strangler she decided against proceeding
to Makeni that evening.

However, soon afterwards two soldiers, one wearing combat and the other a green uniform
approached her. The latter soldier left after a while but the one in combat uniform offered to escort
her to Makeni. Miss Soko declined the offer.
“After which he brushed shoulders with me and picked up my basket containing my property and
headed towards Gandhi Road and then Independence Avenue,” Miss Soko told the police adding,
when I saw that, I followed him in order to retrieve it, but he was walking too fast... (we reached)
a place which looked like a Club where some whites were drinking beer l refused to go inside with
him, "I could have gone back, but all the time I was thinking of my national registration card and my
property."
According to her statement, the soldier later led her along a small bush path. He had introduced
himself as Lieutenant Nyambe and now asked her whether she could identify him in civilian clothes
or in uniform, to which she replied in the affirmative.
Puzzled Lusaka Police got busy as more and more murder reports of young women poured in.
“On hearing this” Miss Soko said “he got hold of me by the shoulders and forced me down. He
started squeezing my neck. I managed to kick him off me. In turn he produced something which
looked like a shifting spanner and hit me on my navel while saying "you are the only girl whom. I
have failed to kill; I have killed the rest so you are the one who will cause me to be arrested. “
‘‘‘He again hit me severely on the navel and that was the last thing I remembered." Miss Soko told
the police.

Three security guards on duty at Lukasu Flats near Olympia Swimming Pool heard screams of a
woman coming from the bush somewhere near Lusaka Municipal Club. They rushed towards the
direction while blowing their whistles. This probably saved Miss Soko’s life.
They found the woman lying in a bush near a path which leads to Kalingalinga still screaming. The
security guards Mr Alfred Banda, Mr Vivian Lufutika and a Mr Mwale later told the police that they
could not get much out of the woman apart from her name and where she came from as she
continued crying and screaming.
“We realised that she was in great pain and thus carried her to Lukasu Flats and then rushed to the
nearby Inter-Continental Hotel to seek transport to bring her to the police station." their report
read.
The police then took Miss Soko to UTH. Dr Jerome Ng’ombe who examined her established that she
had bruises on her abdomen around the umbilicus caused by an instrument in a form of a machine.
She also had scratches of fingernails on the sides her neck.
In addition sores were developing on her tongue caused by some poisonous substance like drugs.
Miss Soko told the police that she was sure of identifying her assailant anywhere in the world. She
therefore became a very important person in the Operation Rosemary. To ensure that she would
not be challenged as to the soundness of her mind she was placed in Chainama hospital for a check-
up.
At this point in time Supt. Mundia of SIT observed in a report that the police were now in a position
to narrow the field of people to look for because Miss Soko's account collaborated with Mr Paul
Mutale’s statement regarding Miss Clodia Maimbolwa who was murdered on January 30. The
police were dealing with murderers or a killer who "as either an army officer or one who was using
an army uniform to avoid detection.
Another card which re-enforced pol ice confidence in getting closer in getting closer to the killer
came their way early in September. One Mrs Josephine Nora Mukatasha left her Chingola home on
7th September. She was travelling to Mumbwa via Lusaka. When the bus reached Kitwe she became
acquainted with a girl travelling to Petauke.
Their bus arrived in Lusaka at 20.15 hours. Since there were no buses scheduled to either of the
women’s destinations that evening, they decided to spend the night at the bus terminus until the
following morning.
However, a short while later the two women were approached by two soldier s wearing combat
uniforms and authoritatively asked them where they came from and where they were going to.
The soldiers then asked them to produce their national registration cards which they did accordingly
hoping they would be left in peace.
But it was not to be. The soldiers instead requested the two women to accompany them to a
nearby rest house at which they would book rooms for them and spend the night in comfort.
The women politely declined.

After being rebuked in this manner the soldiers grabbed a paper box and a hand bag belonging to
the Petauke bound girl (who is not identified up to date and whether she is still living or dead is not
known). The soldiers started heading towards new Kamwala. Seeing that her property was grabbed
from her the girl followed them in pursuit of her luggage. Mrs Mukatasha did not follow.
But then one of the soldiers came back a while later and started to persuading Mrs Mukatasha
With an oiled tongue that she as being difficult for nothing whereas her friend was already
comfortably sleeping at the rest house. She finally obliged to go with the soldier. He picked her
suitcase and she followed behind him.
Before proceeding to the so called rest house, the soldier went to a kiosk situated at the bus station
and bought two Fanta orange one for Mrs Mukatasha and the other for her daughter who was
strapped at her bag. After which they headed towards Kamwala Secondary School walking side by
side.
After about 30 minutes they branched into a narrow path then Mrs Mukatasha asked him where
they were going. The soldier simply pointed in the direction in which some lights appeared.
"I decided to position my child properly when suddenly the soldier darted behind me and grabbed
me by the neck and squeezed it until I passed out.
"Sometime later by God's providence I regained consciousness and note that my child was lying
beside me crying. My national registration card which was in my suitcase was placed near my head.
But the suitcase was gone…."she later told the police. The wrist watch which she was wearing earlier
as well as her wedding Ring were also stolen. Total value of property stolen from her amounted to
K442.98.
With the shock of realising how close she had been to death she started vomiting after which she
strapped her child on her back and staggered towards some houses. She reached house number 61
on Malata Road, Madras and knocked at the door calling for help.
Supt. William Mundia then DCIO Southern headed SIT which probed the murders.
Mr Peter Mwaba the owner of the house opened the door for her and in spite of her dishelved
appearance admitted her in. When the Mwaba family heard her story they provided her with a bed
to rest, for it well past 02:30 hours.

When on the morning of September 8 police received this information telephones got busy. All
members of SIT and other detectives were alerted to pick any soldier who be found loitering at the
railway and bus stations. It was just a matter of time they reasoned before the murderers would be
arrested.
The police had no doubt now of the fact that the stranglers were either active members of the
Zambia Army or men using the army uniforms and that they operated in twos as indicated in the
report of the two women who survived attacks upon them.
And one thing was certain both Miss Soko and Mrs Mukatasha were attacked by the same person
by the same person since descriptions to the police in respect to the assailants tallied.
After continuous police, surveillance of various target areas, the police finally netted the quarry.
On September 16, one month after Miss Soko was narrowly done in, Detective Sergeant ChiIinga
went to Kamwala bus station with Mrs Mukatasha, so that she could walk aimlessly and if she saw
the man who nearly killed her she was to inform the police officer who would be handy nearby.
At 19:30 hours, Mrs Mukatasha was greeted by a man in army combat in army combat uniform
with the words "I happen to have seen you somewhere!" Immediately she recognised her as the
villain who nearly killed her.
"I was pretty certain that he was the same man who nearly killed me. I did not panic. Instead
I cheated him that I have never met him before and that I had just arrived from Chingola. After I told
him this, he asked me if I could accompany him to a rest house where he was to book a room for
me”
"I agreed but I asked him to wait for me so that I could go and collect my luggage. Instead I alerted
the police officers I was with. Besides my positive identification of the villain , he wore the wrist
watch which he had stolen from me when he thought I was dead '' she told the police.
The soldier was approached and when the police officers asked him to accompany them to the
Lusaka Central Police Station, he put up some resistance, but he was finally subdued apprehended.
He was identified as Milton Mufungulwa Sipalo of House No. 23 Arakan Barracks, Lusaka.
On September 17, with his permission, police raided his house in Arakan Barracks and searched it.
A number of items were seized and taken to Lusaka Police Station. Mrs Mukatasha identified her
property from among these items.'
When Sipalo was confronted with this evidence linking him to various murders of women in
Lusaka, he is reported to have parried his first warn and caution statement.
His story was that he had proposed love to the woman and took her home and when he
discovered that she had an operation on her abdomen he did not make love to her. In the
morning according to Sipalo, the woman left to take her child to the hospital leaving behind her
luggage and never and never went back for it.
This aversion from Sipalo to avoid telling the truth did not worry the investigators. On September 18
an identification parade was mounted outside Lusaka Central on which Sipalo and another soldier

who was implicated by him in the murders was present. This other suspect was Kenneth Kaluwe
also from Arakan Barracks.
Victims’ bodies were often left dumped in open spaces for everyone to see.
Three police witnesses, Miss Nora Soko, Mrs Josephine Nora Mukatasha and Miss Joyce Mwape
identified Sipalo. None of them pointed a finger at Kaluwe.
The first two had actually survived attacks upon their persons while Miss Mwape who worked as a
sales lady at Kamwala bus station kiosk had merely been approached on two occasions by Sipalo
proposing love to her. But she had rejected him on the pretext that she was married. She had later
told the police that she was able to identify the soldier.
When police confronted Sipalo with the fact that three witnesses had positively identified him, he
admitted in a warn and caution statement that “if they can pick me from the line of others, then I
am the one who tried to kill them.”
The same afternoon at 16: 35 hours, Sipalo led a team of officers including the SIT chief, Supt.
Mundia to various spots in Lusaka where he allegedly killed some of his victims by way of
strangulation.
He first led them to a spot between Kafue Road and John Laing compound where he alleged that
together with Kaluwe they had killed and dumped the body of Kwaleyela Situmbeko. Secondly he led
SIT officers to another spot between Impala Filling Station and a Thornpark grocery, where an
unidentified body of a woman was picked. He also told the officers that he was in the company of
Kaluwe when they killed the woman on February 10, 1980.
He again led them to Kamwala Secondary School football ground and pointed at the spot where he
said together with Kaluwe they had dumped the body of a woman (Hilda Banda) they killed on
March 13, 1980.
But Sipalo’s alleged accomplice Kaluwe refused having had anything to do with Sipalo in any of these
murders.
When SIT officers searched the homes of the two suspects, they found from Sipalo’s house a number
of items belonging to nine of the victims – Regina Munanga, Maggie Mwanza, Mary Chisanga,
Rosemary Mufulachuma, Fridah Ncube, Regina Mumba, Miriam Mwale, Millian Chipeta and Agness

Christine Mwelasa. The items were identified by the victims ‘relatives. Police also found in Sipalo’s
house property belonging to two survivors, Miss Soko and Mrs Mukatasha.
Nothing was found from Kaluwe’s house that belonged to the murdered women or to the two
survivors. However, when he was reported to have given a pair of white bed sheets and blanket to
his mother in Mongu police seized these, but they too were no identified as stolen property. And
when later investigations revealed nothing to hold Kaluwe for, he was released from custody.
Sipalo being identified on parade by Miss Nora Soko.
But the tragedies which began with the cold blooded murder of a young woman in January 1980 also
ended in self-inflicted capital punishment nine months later. On September 19 at around midday
Sipalo ran away from the hands of the late Assistant Superintendent Fufu and managed to get to the
top of the Lusaka Central Police Station – to plunge to his death on the ground below.
At this time as already indicated, SIT was trying to get to the motive behind the Strangler’s killings.
Sipalo’s sudden death robbed the investigators of this opportunity. But as Senior Supt. Mundia
explained. “Sipalo admitted committing these crimes in addition to overwhelming evidence against
him. And what is certain is that he stole from his victims.”
He added, “Maybe the motive was stealing and raping. But then, why didn’t he steal from men as
well? And why did he go for young women between the ages of ten and 26?”
Yes why indeed? And as noted earlier, the Strangler’s practice was to place bodies of his victims in
open spaces for everybody to see. In addition, after stealing some of the victims’ items of interest
such as shoes, watches and money, the rest of the victims’ goods were usually scattered about the
bodies including identity cards. It would appear that by his overture the Strangler was bent on
advertising his dastardly acts. One wonders what the motive behind this publicity following the
killings was for.
Both the two survivors have testified that in their own cases their assailants had first approached
them together with another man person clad in military uniform. So, was the Lusaka Strangler saga a
really a one man show? We may never know.

Sipalo slipped to the Police Station’s roof top to jump to his death. [Photo by Times of Zambia]
.

'

The Lusaka Strangler Files - Revisited

Recomendados

Recomendados

Mais conteúdo relacionado

Semelhante a The Lusaka Strangler Files - Revisited

Semelhante a The Lusaka Strangler Files - Revisited (19)

Mais de Henry Nasilele

Mais de Henry Nasilele (10)

The Lusaka Strangler Files - Revisited