This archive report was first published on 17 July 2019.
On May 15, the wife of a Tanzanian man was reported missing by her siblings, prompting a search effort that ultimately bore no fruit.
However, the search was revived when the man himself led police to the crime scene, where he had burned his wife's body to ashes.
According to Dar es Salaam police boss Camillius Wambura, the suspect confessed to the crime during interrogation on Wednesday, revealing that he had covered the scene with soil and planted a banana seedling on it.
Police collected ashes from the scene for analysis, and the suspect's family confirmed that the couple's marriage had been troubled by ongoing conflict.
