ALEXANDER KINYUA | Crazed Cannibal Killer | Ate Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, an Exchange Student From Ghana, in an Act of ‘Ancient Justice’ Anthropophagy | Committed for Life to an Asylum | Autographed Letter Signed

Alexander Kinyua. Autographed Letter, Signed. Handwritten, Commercial #10 (4.125 × 9.5 envelope). Capital District, DC. April 15, 2025. Content unknown. SEALED.

• Classification: Homicide
• Characteristics: Cannibalism - Dismemberment - Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia
• Number of victims: 1
• Date of murder: May 25, 2012
• Date of arrest: 4 days after
• Date of birth: October 23, 1990
• Victim profile: Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, 37
• Method of murder: Stabbing with knife
• Location: Harford County, Maryland, USA
• Status: Indefinitely committed to a Maryland mental institution

Alexander Kinyua, a former Morgan State University student, became infamous for the gruesome 2012 murder and cannibalism of his housemate, Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, in Joppatowne, Maryland. Born on October 23, 1990, in Nairobi, Kenya, Kinyua moved to the U.S. as a child and later became a naturalized citizen. At the time of the crime, he was a 21-year-old electrical engineering student, and his father, Antony Kinyua, was a physics professor at the same university.

In the weeks leading up to the murder, Kinyua displayed increasingly erratic behavior, posting disturbing messages on Facebook about "ritual HBCU mass human sacrifices" and "ethnic cleansing." These posts, combined with later psychiatric evaluations, suggested severe mental instability. He was eventually diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, a condition that played a central role in his legal defense.

The victim, Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, was a 37-year-old Ghanaian national who had previously been a graduate student at Morgan State. Due to visa violations, he was awaiting deportation but had been staying with the Kinyua family. On May 25, 2012, Agyei-Kodie was reported missing. Days later, Kinyua’s brother made a horrifying discovery in the basement of their home: a human head and hands stored in metal tins. Kinyua later confessed to killing Agyei-Kodie with an axe, dismembering his body, and consuming parts of his heart and brain. Additional remains were later found in a nearby church dumpster.

This was not Kinyua’s first violent act. Just a week before the murder, he had been released on bail after attacking another Morgan State student, Joshua Ceasar, walked into Kinyua's apartment and was hit on the head with a baseball bat, fracturing the victim’s skull and blinding him in one eye. Despite this prior violent incident, no intervention prevented the subsequent killing.

At trial, psychiatric experts testified that Kinyua suffered from severe delusions, including beliefs about reptilian aliens and apocalyptic scenarios. As a result, he was found  Instead of prison, he was indefinitely committed to a Maryland mental health facility, with the possibility of release only if future evaluations deemed him no longer a danger to society.

The case had significant repercussions. Morgan State University later established a chief public safety officer position in response to the incident. Meanwhile, Agyei-Kodie’s family mourned his death, remembering him as an ambitious man who had hoped to return to Ghana and enter politics. However, records also showed that Agyei-Kodie had a prior criminal history in the U.S., including charges for stalking and assault.

Kinyua’s case remains a chilling example of how untreated mental illness, combined with gaps in legal and institutional oversight, can lead to catastrophic violence. It also raises difficult questions about accountability, justice for victims, and how society handles individuals with severe psychiatric disorders who commit horrific acts.

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