This archive report was first published on 2 July 2020.
On July 1, 2020, a man visiting the Athi River Police Station to collect his vehicle made a gruesome discovery: the decomposing bodies of two children, Alvina Mutheu and Henry Jacktone, inside a car.
The children, aged three and four, had been reported missing on June 11, 2020, and their families had been searching for them ever since.
According to their parents, Alvina and Henry were last seen in their neighborhood near the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) in Machakos County, where they had been watching a tractor dig trenches.
Alvina's father, Stephen Mulinge, had brought her a watermelon, but instead of returning home, she joined Henry in the neighborhood.
The families of the two children are suspecting foul play, with Alvina's father, Stephen Mulinge, saying that they had received calls from two different mobile numbers demanding money to release the children.
Police boss Catherine Ringera said that the car, a gray Toyota Belta, had been involved in an accident on March 4, 2020, and was towed to the station, but she could not term the incident as murder.
However, the police boss will be hard pressed to explain how two bodies ended up inside her station, and detectives from the Homicide Department of the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) are now trying to find out how the bodies got to the station.
