Kiambu: Puzzle As Police Find Decomposing Bodies Of 3 Women In Newly-Built Home

• Thika Town police boss Andrew Sora said the decomposing bodies of three women were found in Maguguni village
• The three bodies were identified as Peninah Wairimu Ngugi, 87, her 50-year-old daughter Pauline Njeri, and their househelp
• Police found two bloody knives suspected to have been used to stab the three outside the newly built house.

Amos Khaemba, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings more than three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.

Kiambu - Police in Thika, Kiambu county, have launched investigations after three women were found murdered in their home by unknown assailants.

On Wednesday, December 13, Thika Town police boss Andrew Sora said the decomposing bodies of three women were found in Maguguni village, Ngoliba ward.

The three bodies were identified as Peninah Wairimu Ngugi, 87, her 50-year-old daughter Pauline Njeri, and their househelp.

Thika police boss reveals crucial lead

Sora said police are pursuing crucial leads to arrest one of the suspects believed to have been behind the brutal murder of the three family members.

“This may have happened about two to three days before as the bodies are already decomposing. We have begun our investigations and are optimistic that we will have the suspects arrested for prosecution. It’s very unfortunate,” said Sora, as reported by Citizen TV.

The bodies of Wairimu and her daughter were found in a pool of blood inside their newly built house, while the third body, which had been beheaded, was found buried in a shallow grave a few metres from the house.

Police suspect the victims might have been killed on the night of Friday, December 8, by unknown people since the bodies were already decomposing.

What neighbours said about the incident

Two bloody knives suspected to have been used to stab the three were found outside the house.

Kahoro Mbogo, a neighbour, said the three have been missing since Saturday last week after they failed to collect milk from his farm as a norm.

“They have been picking milk from my home but have not collected it since Saturday. We suspect the murder may have happened before Saturday,” said Mbogo.

Police are trying to establish if the gruesome murder of the three is linked to family property that was recently sold in Ruiru.

Why 82-year-old Thika woman was killed

In other sad news, the 82-year-old woman whose remains were discovered inside her house in Thika, nine months after she breathed her last.

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) are on top of things and now suggest that Leah Njeri might have been killed in a well-arranged plot, given that the carcasses of her dogs and chickens were found in her compound.

The perpetrator(s) of the alleged murder might also have known that Njeri's home was not frequented and thus went ahead to execute their plan, confident that it would take time before it was known that she was long dead.

Njeri, according to her neighbours, lived alone and rarely socialised. The woman was last seen alive in September 2022 at a public gathering.