Man Admits To Killing 19-Year-Old Wife After Being Caught Walking With Body Parts

In yet another chilling case of femicide, police in Huruma, Nairobi have arrested a 29-year-old man who was ferrying body parts believed to belong to his 19-year-old wife.

According to a report by the National Police Service (NPS), police officers on Tuesday, January 21 while on patrol within the Kelly Towers Area arrested the suspect and seized a bag on his back. Upon searching it, the officers found a bag stashed with the body parts, reports indicating that it was a human thorax.

The suspect admitted that the body parts belonged to his wife, and led police to the scene of the crime...his house.

"The suspect identified as John Kiama Wambua, 29 confessed that the body parts belonged to his now-deceased wife Joy Fridah Munani, 19, and led the Officers to his house where more dismembered parts were recovered from beneath a bed," stated NPS in part.

A signpost of Huruma Police Station. /NATION MEDIA GROUP

Reports painted a gruesome picture of the murder, with the head whose eyes gouged out and other body parts found. However, the deceased’s left hand, waist and hip area and one upper thigh were missing.

Also recovered from the crime scene were a blood-stained kitchen knife and female clothes suspected to have been the weapon of murder and clothes for the deceased respectively. The floor of the house was found stained with blood.

The body parts have been moved to the City Mortuary awaiting postmortem analysis. "The motive of the murder is yet to be established, but the suspect is in police custody," added NPS, with the suspect set to be arraigned in court.

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Starehe have taken over the case, with police stating that they are among others pursuing occultism.

Occultism has been part of the leading causes of murder. Nairobi regional head of DCI stated that they are investigating the incident to establish more and ensure justice.

On December 27, DCI detectives arrested a man believed to be the main suspect linked to the brutal murder of a woman in Nakuru on Christmas Day. The man was said to murdered the woman, gouged her eyes, severed her mammary glands and thereafter inflicted multiple wounds on the victims head and abdomen before stuffing her remains in a sack and bolting out of his staff quarter residence.

Another similar murder case stole nationwide headlines in early January 2024 as Rita Waeni, a former Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) student, was murdered in one of the most brutal ways imaginable.

Waeni was killed in an apartment on TRM Drive, Kasarani, and her dismembered body was found stuffed in garbage bags, with her head missing. In a grim discovery, detectives later recovered a human head, believed to be hers, in a dam in Kiambaa, Kiambu County.

The DCI released a photo of the prime suspect in Waeni's murder, appealing to the public for information to help locate and apprehend him. A year and a couple of weeks on, he is still yet to be arrested.