This archive report was first published on 6 January 2022.
On January 6, 2022, police in Molo, Nakuru County launched a manhunt for a university student accused of killing his lover and mutilating her body.
Mark Njoroge Wanjiru, 20, a student at Kibabii University, is the main suspect in the gruesome murder.
According to a police report, Wanjiru had visited his grandfather's home in Molo over the holidays, where the body was discovered.
Locals reported finding two human hands in an open field in Mtaa Saba village, prompting the police to investigate.
After confirming the incident, police officers and detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) visited the scene and discovered a foul smell emanating from a nearby house.
Upon breaking into the house, they found a mutilated female body wrapped in a brown blanket under a bed, with the head, hands, and legs cut off and missing.
One female human head was recovered in a yellow plastic bucket under a table in the kitchen, believed to be part of the mutilated body.
The scene was processed, and the body parts were moved to Molo Sub-County Hospital morgue pending an autopsy.
