Two suspects including the husband of the slaughtered Nyahururu based high school teacher have been arrested in connection to the murder most-foul of the mother of one year old girl.
Dismembered body of Miriam Wanjiru with her torso missing was discovered in a 90 meter well after close to two months since she went missing after the main murder suspect, Anthony Mutahi aged 29 years, led homicide detectives to the scene of crime.
Wanjiru was a teacher at St Louis Secondary School after a major teaching stint at Ndururumo High School popularly known by the name Miss Kamui went missing in December last year.
According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) sleuths, she disappeared on December 19, 2021, after she responded to her estranged husband Peter Kanyi’s distress call.
“On the day of her disappearance, Wanjiru’s estranged husband had called her sounding sickly and frail, asking her to go save him from the verge of death after taking poison.
The deceased, who didn’t know that she was being lured to a death trap, rushed to save the father of her little angel, never to be seen again,” read DCI report.
The house help who was taking care of her child filed a report at Losogwa police station three days after her disappearance.
In a bid to expedite the investigations and bring the suspect to book, detectives from the elite Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau (CRIB), joined in the investigations two days after.
Using cyber forensic analysis of digital data that was processed at the DCI National Forensic laboratory, the main suspect into the murder was arrested.
“After intensive grilling, the suspect led the sleuths to a 90-metres-deep water well, where he had disposed of the deceased’s body. The detectives retrieved the body that had its head missing,” stated DCI.
Upon further scrutiny of the well, a second body of an unidentified teenage girl that was badly decomposed was found.
Scenes of Crime experts have since extracted samples from the body for DNA profiling.
The sleuths have also established that following the couple’s separation, the deceased had sold a matatu that belonged to her and which her estranged husband used to operate rendering him jobless.
Further investigations also revealed that the main suspect had withdrawn Sh120, 000 from the deceased’s Equity bank account in Nyahururu town, using her ATM card.
The deceased’s estranged husband has also been arrested and together with his accomplice will face murder charges, contrary to section 203 as read with section 204 of the Penal Code.
Meanwhile, the deceased’s little angel is under the care and protection of the local Children’s officer, who is working closely with DCI’s Anti Human Trafficking and Child Protection detectives, to ensure that the infant is well taken care of.