Richard Appiah, 28, an architect, has been arrested for allegedly murdering three persons at Abesim, in the Sunyani Municipality of Bono region, on Friday.
He is said to have killed two boys, a 12-year old and 15-year-old, and yet to be identified man, whose bodies were found in his living room, at Alaska, near Abesim.
The suspect is in the custody of the police, assisting in investigations, and the Ghanaian Times gathered that the 12 year-old boy was lured by the suspect to his room.
Parents of the boy received information that he was spotted in the company of the suspect, and they together with a search party went to his house.
Information available to the Ghanaian Times indicated that the parents and the search party broke into the suspect’s room, and found the boy lying prostrate in a pool of blood and his head decoupled from the body, and also human body parts and heads in a sack, in his fridge.
The body parts are reported to have been taken to the Best Care Mortuary in the Sunyani West Municipality for autopsy.
Meanwhile, the acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akufo Dampare, has directed the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), headquarters, to provide technical support to Bono Regional CID, to unravel the bizarre circumstance under which three persons have been murdered at Abesim.
Dr Dampare urged for stronger civil-police collaboration to promote peace and security in society.
He visited the families of the deceased at Abesim to commiserate with them, and asked the public to assist the police with information, to enable them maintain law and order.
Sources close to the Regional Police Command confirmed the story, but declined to give details, except to say the suspect had mentioned other accomplices.
In an earlier statement issued by the acting Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Kwesi Ofori, the IGP has commended members of the community for swiftly ensuring the arrest of the suspect.
The statement appealed to the public to volunteer information to investigators, to unravel the murder of the three victims.
Meanwhile, the Ghana News Agency reports that Mr Thomas Agyei, the father of Louis Agyeman Junior, one of the victims, said his twin son left home on Friday, but did not return.
The father said a family member informed him that he saw Louis in the company of Appiah, which raised suspicion.
Mr Agyei said the family and a search party looked for the victim all night to no avail, but Louis’ mother, “who was unsettled in her spirit, asked the young men to return and search the house of Appiah’s father, at Alaska, a new settlement at Abesim.”
He said when the search party went to the house, they met him (suspect), and he told the family that Louis had left for home.
At the time of going to press, the Ghanaian Times gathered that a second suspect (name withheld) has been picked up by the police in connection with the gruesome murder of three persons at Abesim.
FROM DANIEL DZIRASAH, SUNYANI AND ANITA NYARKO-YIRENKYI, ACCRA