This archive report was first published on 26 June 2020.
The gruesome murder of a 28-year-old woman in Kirinyaga County has left the community in shock. Mary Wanjiku, a casual labourer from Kagio Town, was killed by her boyfriend, Murimi Wanjobi, 35, on Tuesday night (June 23).
According to police, Wanjiku was attacked using crude weapons, set ablaze, and buried in a shallow grave by her boyfriend. The incident occurred at Kiieni Village in Kirinyaga Central.
On Friday morning (June 26), police obtained a court order to exhume Wanjiku's body. The one-hour exercise led by Kirinyaga Central Sub-County Commissioner Daniel Ndege, area OCPD Doreen Oduor, and medical officers from Kerugoya County Referral Hospital yielded shocking discoveries: Wanjiku's body had been cut into pieces, her stomach ripped, and her intestines removed.
Police said Wanjiku 'died a painful death'. 'She was set alight while naked,' said Oduor, revealing that the suspect wrapped the victim in a car tyre before striking a matchstick.
Wanjiku's mother, Beatrice Kabari Mugo, collapsed when she discovered it was her daughter who had been brutally killed. Mugo was taken to hospital.
Police suspect that the suspect, Murimi, could be a serial killer, who has murdered several women in the past. Neighbours claimed several women in the locality have, in the recent past, disappeared mysteriously, with some of them never to be found again.
Wanjiku's body was taken to Kerugoya County Referral Hospital morgue awaiting postmortem. Murimi, a landscape designer, is at large and is believed to have escaped to an unknown destination.
