The body of a woman who disappeared last week has been recovered buried in a shallow grave, along the banks of river Molo, in Mogotio, Baringo county.
Detectives based in Mogotio exhumed the decomposing remains of Veronicah Kanini, 42, from a shallow grave at a thicket, along the river after suspected killer Moses Kipchirchir Ruto led them to the scene.
The deceased was well known trader who sold tailor-make seat covers in Mogotio town for the last three years and traveled from her home in Nakuru every morning to sell her merchandise before returning in the evening.
On the fateful day, police would establish, Kanini’s husband Marco Njuguna, had received a call from the wife at around 6pm, asking him to send Sh3,000 urgently.
As he inquired from her why she needed the money, the keen husband heard a male voice in the background instructing her to speak in Swahili.
This further exasperated the already worried man, who immediately set off for Mogotio in search of his beloved wife.
The woman after calling the husband, contacted two neighbours who sent her an unspecified amount of money.
Investigations into her mysterious disapperance were immediately launched and after failing to trace her in Mogotio town that night, detectives contacted crime busters from the elite Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau based at DCI headquarters, to help unravel the puzzle.
A day later on November 13, the main suspect into the murder, a 34-year-old Moses Kipchirchir Ruto, was busted after detectives stormed his house.
The suspect who had earlier denied being involved in the woman’s disappearance, would later confess to killing Kanini by strangling her on Friday night.
Ruto told the detectives that after killing her, he left her body at the scene of the murder, before returning the following morning at dawn carrying a jembe which he used to dig the shallow grave where he burried her remains.
He is set to be charged with murder.
Custodial orders had earlier been issued at the Eldama Ravine Law Courts, granting detectives 14 days to complete investigations into the murder.
