Police have appealed to the public to help them trace a man believed to have lured Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) student Rita Waeni Muendo and killed her in cold blood in an apartment in Roysambu area, Nairobi.
The investigators released a video that captured the man walking with Waeni moments before she was killed.
The video that captured the woman in her last moments before she was murdered shows her walking alongside the man in the Roysambu area to the apartment where the murder took place. She had communicated with him through social media and Instagram.
There is no other trace of the suspect.
Police want the public to help them identify the suspected killer.
He was in a white hat, black jeans black pullover, and white shoes in the video.
The murder happened on Jan 13, 2024, in the Roysambu area, Nairobi.
Waeni was buried at her parents’ home in Mukimwani Village, Kisau location, Makueni County on February 5.
Waeni was murdered on January 13, 2024, at a short accommodation apartment in the Roysambu area, Nairobi, where her body was dismembered by the suspected killer.
The owner of the apartment told police the deceased’s perceived killer secured the room on Saturday, January 13 at 3 pm.
It was not until the next day that the discovery was made after the caretaker reported finding suspicious polythene bags and a blood-soaked bed sheet on the staircase.
The family later came out to reveal that Waeni had left her aunt’s house in Syokimau to meet a friend.
A ransom was demanded from the family. The motive is yet to be known.
Officers who visited the scene found the dismembered body without a head, which was later found in a dam in Kiambu.
The head was identified by the family on January 25 during an autopsy procedure conducted by Chief Government Pathologist Dr. Johansen Oduor who stated that the findings indicated that Waeni died of strangulation before she was brutally dismembered by her killer.
The killer used a hacksaw in his mission.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) released Waeni’s body to her family on February 2, 2024, a family member said.
This was after the DNA tests also confirmed the head recovered belonged to the fourth-year student.
Police link the murder to occultism among other issues for now.
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