A suspect arrested in connection with the gruesome killing of a young woman at Bentum in the Awutu Senya District of the Central Region has claimed he had a strong urge to kill before committing the act.

The suspect, identified as Horlali Alatusa, a spiritualist believed to be in his early 20s, was arrested by police after residents reported a foul smell emanating from a nearby farmland.

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According to the suspect in a video circulating on X, the victim, identified as Akua, had done nothing wrong to warrant the attack.

“She didn't commit any wrongdoing for me to kill her. I will be a liar to say she did me wrong. She was my client who got healed from her sickness through me. I don't know what pushed me to do such a thing,” he said.

Alatusa claimed that the urge to kill began after he handled human skeletal remains that his brother had brought for ritual purposes.

“I also don't know if it was the spare parts my brother brought, which I touched, that made me do such a thing. He brought human skeletal remains for me to use it for rituals for him. Since then, I’ve always had the urge to behead someone, even my family members,” he alleged.

He said the urge resurfaced when the victim visited him on the day of the incident.

“So, the fateful day the lady came to visit me, I got the urge again to kill her. I lured her to the farm under the guise of harvesting herbs. I picked up a machete and beheaded her in one strike while on our way to the farm,” he confessed.

The suspect further claimed that he acted alone and insisted that his actions were driven by the urge he had been experiencing.

“I acted alone, and every spiritual person will believe what I’m saying. Even if we call the dead spirit of the lady I killed, she will also corroborate what I’m saying, that I got an urge to kill her,” he stated.

He also admitted to dismembering the victim’s body after the killing.

“I cut off her legs after beheading her because I got scared. I buried her legs at my house, but for her head, I wrapped it in a sack and traveled to my hometown, Mafi-Avedo, in the Volta Region,” he said.

According to him, he later informed his grandfather about what had happened.

“I told my grandfather about my actions, and he took the severed head and buried it in the cemetery,” he added.

Despite the killing, the suspect acknowledged that the victim had previously supported him.

“Akua was so good to me. She came to me with a swollen leg, and I healed her. She even took care of me in difficult times,” he said.

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The incident has shocked residents in the community, with police continuing investigations into the case.

“I became possessed after a friend brought me some spare parts. She never got to shout—I beheaded her in one strike”

—Fetish priest, Horlali Alatusa, who was arrested for the murder of his girlfriend and former client at Awutu Bentum in the Awutu Senya District of the Central… pic.twitter.com/H09sfbDXXj

— SIKAOFFICIAL🦍 (@SIKAOFFICIAL1) March 14, 2026

Police visit crime scene with fetish priest accused of murdering his girlfriend and dismembering her body for suspected ritual purposes at Awutu Bentum near Bontrase in the Central Region. pic.twitter.com/FjuUGpwMbf

— EDHUB🌍ℹ (@eddie_wrt) March 14, 2026