DCI Travel 300KM To Nab Another Suspect In Lang'ata Cemetery Murder

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Thursday, November 7 arrested another suspect in the murder and dumping of a body at the Lang’ata Cemetery on October 31. This is as the investigative agency uncovered a web of complications in the ongoing probe.

Jared Mong'are was arrested by the team of detectives investigating the case, recovering several exhibits among them a blood-stained panga believed to be the murder weapon.

Acting on intelligence leads, the detectives established that Mong'are, who was smoked from his hideout in Eldoret town, is the person who, not only handled all payment transactions relating to the client's stay at the Lavington Valley Heights Apartment but also the person who drove them to the venue in a Toyota Vitz.

The vehicle has since been recovered at Ngara Civil Servants estate and towed to DCI headquarters for forensic examination. 

"Also established is that the room where the prime suspect, Hashim Dagane Muhumed, checked in with the female victim was being operated as an Airbnb by a Kilimani-based businesswoman, who subleased the room from the apartment owner paying a monthly rent of Ksh55,000," stated DCI in part.

"However, the owner issued a notice of rent increment starting November 2024, forcing the lady to send movers to move out her stuff on November 1, 2024."

According to DCI, this was a day after CCTV cameras captured the prime suspect (Muhumed) leaving the room on October 31.

"Armed with the establishments, the stickler for detail detectives cast their nets wider. They summoned the Airbnb owner identified as Alice Mbinya, who was investigative-ly interviewed at homicide offices to shed more light on the case in question," added the DCI.

Mbinya indicated that the stuff she had moved from the Valley Heights Apartment was still intact as packaged by the movers and that some had been dropped at her residential house in Kilimani and the rest at her other business in Gatundu.

She then led the detectives to her home where the said stuff was unpacked, therein discovering a handbag which she indicated was not part of her belongings. DCI indicated that the same is believed to belong to the murdered victim.

The search was furthered to Gatundu where the second batch of the stuff from the primary scene had been stored. Therein, a blood-stained panga and another set of exhibits similar to those recovered at Langata Cemetery were recovered.

"And just like at the house where the murder was committed, notable were the efforts made by the suspect to clean any traces of blood, but not perfectly enough by someone in a hurry," DCI wordly stated.

Meanwhile, detectives have also established that the prime suspect was handling the victim's mobile phone or sim card, which he used to call her family members several times.

A forensic trail of his communication took the officers back to Lang'ata cemetery, where they combed the entire area, discovering a phone stashed in a bag that also contained clothes resembling those seen won by Deka Abdinoor Gorone, his possible victim. They have been processed and kept as exhibits.

As the investigation continues, the DCI reiterated its commitment to pursue this and other criminal cases to an expeditious conclusion, with a view to deliver justice to all. This comes as Dagane is also deemed the primary suspect in the murders of three women from Eastleigh.