This archive report was first published on 6 June 2020.
On June 6, 2020, detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) arrested David Migwi Kariuki, 42, in Ruai, Kenya, in connection with the murder of two women.
According to investigations, Kariuki had rented a house in Umoja, where he left the dismembered body of an unidentified woman before it was found dumped at a school in the area.
DCI detectives established that the body had been retrieved from Kariuki's rented house at Amani Court in Umoja before it was discovered at the school's field, stashed in different bags.
Kariuki had cut the body into pieces and packed them in several bales using wedding décor materials before he fled.
His landlady, Nancy Wanja Njuguna, had hired two men to retrieve the materials and a blue water tank, unaware that the materials had wrapped a human body.
Ms. Njuguna had evicted Kariuki, who had defaulted on rent payments since April, before renting the house out.
During investigations, it emerged that Kariuki was the same man captured on CCTV leaving a club in downtown Nairobi with a woman whom he later killed and dumped her torso near Nacico Plaza opposite a nearby Shell Petrol Station.
The woman's other body parts, including the head, arms, and legs, were found at a dumpsite in Umoja.
DNA tests of the body parts and the torso matched and identified her as Peninah Wairimu Njeri, with whom Kariuki left Green Club along Latema Road on April 27, 2019.
A detective described the motive behind the killings as 'beyond just murder and violence,' suggesting an occult activity.
Kariuki is currently in detention at Buruburu police station, pending further investigations.
