This archive report was first published on 2 July 2020.
On July 2, 2020, a shocking discovery was made at the Machakos police station when the bodies of two missing children, Alvina Mutheu and Henry Jacktone, were found in the boot of a car.
The children, both four years old, had gone missing from their home in KMC Estate on June 11, 2020, while playing outside. Their parents had been searching for them, visiting hospitals and mortuaries, until fresh clues emerged on Tuesday afternoon.
A Nairobi salesman, who had gone to the station to pick up his detained car, informed the officers that there was a foul smell coming from the boot of his Toyota Belta. The vehicle had been at the station for over three months after being involved in an accident on Mombasa Road on March 4, 2020.
When the salesman opened the boot, he found the two bodies covered in a black paper bag. The officers then opened the bag and made the grim discovery.
Government pathologists were called to the scene to assist with the investigations, and investigators from the DCI Homicide Unit took over the case. The parents of the children were summoned to the police station to confirm the identities of the bodies.
According to an investigating officer, the bodies were decomposing and could have been in the car for over a week. However, there were no visible injuries or blood stains on the children's clothes or in the vehicle.
The police are now trying to determine how the children ended up in the boot of the car, which was already in the hands of the police at the time they were reported missing. The motive behind the killing is also unknown.
