CHARLES QUANSHAH

Charles Papa Kwabena Ebo Quansah (born 1964)

Is a convicted Ghanaian serial killer who was arrested in February 2000 for the murder of his girlfriend Joyce Boateng.

While in custody, Quansah was subsequently charged with the murder of another woman, Akua Serwaa who was found strangled near KumasiSports Stadium, in Kumasi on January 19, 1996 and subsequently confessed to the strangulation deaths of nine women in the capital city of Accra. The deaths of thirty-four women were attributed to a serial killer beginning in 1993.^[1]

Quansah, a mechanic who lived in the Accra, Ghana neighborhood of Adenta, had been previously under police surveillance as a suspect in the killings.

Police and prison records reveal that Charles Quansah was jailed at the James Fort prisons for the offence of rape in 1986. After completing his sentence, he committed another rape and was jailed for three years at the Nsawam Prisons in 1987. Quansah was imprisoned again for robbery in 1996 at the Nsawam Medium Prisons in Kumasi, Ghana. After his release that year he relocated to Accra.

Charles Quansah's trial for the serial killings began on Thursday, July 11, 2002 at the High Court Criminal Sessions, Accra. He was subsequently convicted of the strangulation deaths of nine women and sentenced to be hanged until death.

In 2003, Charles Quansah spoke to the press and denied killing any of the nine women he was convicted of murdering or the further twenty-three women he was suspected of murdering and issued a statement proclaiming that he was tortured whilst in police custody.

From MODERNGHANA.COM

A 36-year-old driver mechanic, Charles Quansah has confessed to committing eight of the killings of over thirty women in the country.

A statement from the police said Quansah, alias Paapa Kwabena Ebo had been put on police surveillance for sometime now until he was arrested in February this year at his Adenta residence.

Charles Quansah also admitted to the police that he performed most of the killings through strangulations in Kumasi, Dansoman, Mataheko and Adenta between 1993 and 2001.

The statement said the police investigations into the serial killings in the country had been intensified in the last seven months with the setting up of a special investigation team, which includes experts in crime scene management and interrogation. The police also received assistance from the American Federal Bureau of National Investigations (FBI) in the form of scientific investigation support.

Meanwhile the FBI has collected physical evidence to their laboratory for further laboratory analysis and a report on these will confirm other pieces of evidence provided by Charles Quansah after which prosecution will be commenced.

Police and prison records reveal that Charles Quansah was jailed at the James Fort prisons for the offence of rape in 1986. After completing his sentence, he committed another rape and was jailed for there years at the Nsawam Prisons in 1987.

Charles Quansah settled in Kumasi after his sentence and moved to Dansoman four years ago. He again moved to Adenta in September 2001. It will be recalled that over 30 women were murdered in mysterious circumstances, which created tension and anxiety among Ghanaians as well as the security agencies I KILLED 8 WOMEN - Serial killer confesses [Graphic] - THE long hunt by the police in Accra for the faceless person or people who for years, murdered women in succession, for no apparent reason, has finally yielded results.

The culprit or at least one of them, is 36-year-old driver mechanic, Charles Quansah, who has confessed to killing eight of the women.

According to him, between 1993 and 2001, he killed women in Kumasi, and three Accra suburbs - Dansoman, Mataheko and Adenta.

Quansah, alias Paapa Kobina Ebo who hails from Komenda in the Central Region, said he killed them by strangulation.

Quansah was put under police surveillance for quite some time before he was arrested.

A police statement issued in Accra yesterday said he made the great confession on May 8, 2001.

He was arrested at his Adenta residence in February this year, following intensified investigations into the serial murders in the past 12 months, including the setting up of a special team which includes experts in crime scene management and interrogation.

He was sent to an Accra Court which remanded him in custody.

According to police and prison records, in 1986 and 1987, Quansah served jail terms at the James Fort Prisons and Nsawam Prisons respectively for rape.

After serving his sentence at Nsawam Prisons, he went to Kumasi Ayigya to settle there till after 1997 when he moved to Dansoman, Accra. In September 2000, Quansah moved to Adenta, Accra.

The statement said the Ghana Police have had assistance from experts of the American FBI in the form of what is known in the profession as Scientific Investigation Support (SIS).

The FBI has collected physical evidence to their laboratory for further scientific analysis and a report on these will confirm other pieces of evidence at hand in order to commence prosecution, the statement said.

He Was Tortured To Confess...... ... They Tried To get Him To Implicate JJ & Govt Minister Charles Quansah, the man accused of being responsible for the serial killing of 34 women has began talking again and indications are that he may soon cause enough trouble for some political heavy weights. The Insight newspaper says it has had the privilege of listening to a one-hour tape recording of Charles Quansah and can confirm that it is more than explosive. The paper says Quansah denied any involvement in the killing of the 34 women. “Our understanding is that the tape recording was done at the Medium Security Prison at Nsawam, where Charles Quansah is currently housed in the condemned cells. It is still not clear who did the recording and whether it was done with the approval of prison authorities”, the paper noted. However, a prison officer is known to have been interdicted for allegedly facilitating contact with Quansah by unauthorized persons. According to Quansah, his alleged confession to the murder of 34 women was obtained through torture. He describes in detail, several torture sessions in which he was burnt with pressing iron and beaten so severely that he bled profusely from his ears. One of the most interesting disclosures by Quansah is that his interrogators tried to get him to implicate former President Rawlings and his wife, Nana Konadu Agyeman in the serial killings. Quansah insists that he has never met the couple and that inspite of the gruesome torture, he refused flatly to name the former first couple because if he did, it would be a blot on his conscience for the rest of his life. Quansah also alleges that at a later date in his interrogation, a police officer (name withheld) told him that if he implicated a very senior member of the Kufuor administration (name also withheld) in the serial killing, he would be left off lightly. He does not explain why the police officer wanted the senior member of the Kufuor administration implicated in the murders. The Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Ghana Police are emphatic that Quansah was responsible for the murders, but his denial brings a new dimension to the case.