A postmortem conducted on the body of a 36-year-old woman who was found murdered and her badly deformed body dumped in Jamhuri estate, Nairobi, has revealed she was stabbed in the chest.
The autopsy says June Jerop Kangogo died due to severe bleeding after she was stabbed in the chest, thereby rupturing the heart.
Jerop went missing on March 18 before her body was discovered by pedestrians in the Jamhuri area two days later.
Three suspects are in police custody in connection with the murder, police said.
A memorial service of the late Jerop was Thursday held at the Montezuma Monalisa in Nairobi ahead of the planned burial on Saturday.
The emotional memorial service was attended by family, friends, and colleagues.
Jerop’s boyfriend is among three people in police custody after they were arrested in the Landmawe area on t of March 24, police said.
Detectives investigating the murder case say the main suspect picked the deceased from her Liberty Gardens apartment in South B on March 19.
They were captured on CCTV cameras in Imara Daima, then in the Mlolongo area before the deceased went missing without a trace.
She had spoken with her sister a day before she went missing, investigators say.
On the same day, Jerop is reported to have been murdered, the main suspect Wafula traveled more than 400 kilometers away from the murder scene to Bungoma County, dumping his Mercedes Benz car before returning to Nairobi on March 24 using public transport.
The car was last week brought to Nairobi for forensic examination and is likely to be used as an exhibit, police say.
It is believed that the suspect used the vehicle to ferry and dispose of Jerop’s body near Jamhuri Primary School.
The motive of
the incident is believed to be a love triangle.
He was arrested upon arrival together with his two accomplices but one was released.
Police had sought more days to hold the suspects as investigators go on with their probe.
Makadara OCPD Judith Nyongesa said they were all arraigned on March 27 and police successfully sought orders through miscellaneous applications to detain them for 14 more days.
The family of the deceased, an accountant at the National Industrial Training Authority (NITA) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) student at Kenyatta University have called on the police to fast-track the investigations and bring her killers to book.
Jerop will be laid to rest on Saturday in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County.
