This archive report was first published on 27 September 2019.
On September 24, 2019, a gruesome double homicide shook the quiet streets of South C in Nairobi. Judith Wanjiku, a 73-year-old retired Treasury employee, and her 47-year-old daughter Catherine Nyaguthie were found brutally murdered in their four-bedroom house at Golden Gate estate in South B.
According to a police report, the two women were found strangled in their separate bedrooms. Judith was found lying on her bed, facing down, with a sisal rope around her neck and blood oozing from her mouth. Catherine, a former Cooperative Bank employee, was found lying on the floor of her bedroom with injury marks around her neck.
Police are trying to piece together information on the duo's movements on the fateful night so as to get to those who killed them. A police source revealed that they are looking to trace a black Toyota Prado which reportedly dropped off the women at around 2 am on Sunday before their lifeless bodies were discovered.
Although the building in which the women were murdered did not have CCTV, police will rely on cameras in the estate to get leads on their killers. The detectives on the case will also rely on data from the mobile phones belonging to the dead woman and her daughter to unravel their murders.
Police spent a better part of the day dusting the entire house as they quizzed several people on the murders. The investigation is ongoing, and police are working tirelessly to bring the perpetrators to justice.
