Sunday Shodipe, the 19 – year old suspected serial killer, who escaped from police custody, but was rearrested on Sunday by the Oyo State Police Command has confessed to killing one Mrs. Oladeji Funmilayo, after he escaped from police custody.
The suspect, who was paraded alongside 32 other suspects by the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Joe Nwachukwu Enwonwu, said he used an object to hack the woman, his latest victim, leaving her in the pool of her blood.
He said he escaped from police custody in order to get more blood to appease some spirits tormenting his accomplice, the herbalist, he identified as Baba Adedokun who was also in police net.
He said: “After I escaped from Mokola Police cell in Ibadan, I went to do what Baba Adedokun asked me to do to save him from dying. “I went from Moniya where I used to live to Akinyele and used an object to hack the woman. Blood gushed out and I recited what Baba always said I should recite, mentioning his name. I disappeared as usual but did not know whether the woman died.
“The herbalist with whom I was detained told me to escape from detention to provide blood to appease some spirits who were sucking his blood since he could no longer get access to hard drinks and other ingredients like cola nuts, alligator pepper which he was using to offer sacrifice in the cell.”
“I don’t have any charm. I don’t know what Baba Adedokun was using me for. He said it was my initial confession that kept him in detention and that if I had not confessed and mentioned his name as the person using him, both of us would have been out.”
The police commissioner said Shodipe, believed to be the brain behind the killing of five persons in Akinyele and Moniya areas of Ibadan, would be moved to the Ibadan Correctional Centre, where he should have been kept initially.