Police recovered a dismembered human body believed to be missing parts of a woman who was murdered in Huruma, Nairobi.
Detectives said the believe the body parts are of Joy Fridah Munani has been missing since last Tuesday.
The discovery was made by locals along Mathare River on Saturday January 25, where a suspicious sack was spotted floating on the river.
Police said they believe the parts are those of Munani.
The detectives need to march them with the other parts that were earlier recovered in a house in Huruma to confirm the same.
Police said with the evidence in their custody, they believe they have a strong case against the murder suspect John Kiama Wambua who was arrested while transporting some of the body parts last week.
Munani was killed by her Wambua boyfriend in Nairobi’s Huruma estate.
After the killing, Wambua was on Tuesday arrested carrying parts of her body in a bag.
An interrogation with the suspect led detectives to his rented house in Huruma where more body parts were recovered.
An autopsy on the body of the deceased revealed that she died as a result of deep stab wounds on the chest and her body had been decapitated.
A court granted Wednesday the police 21 days to detain Wambua to enable them conduct further investigations.
The police had petitioned the court through a miscellaneous application to grant them 21 days to detain Wambua at Ruaraka Police Station as they investigated the brutal murder of his wife, Munani.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Starehe said Wambua is suspected of murdering his wife on January 20, 2025, at their home in the Kasanova area of Huruma.
Police claim that during routine patrols, officers spotted Wambua carrying a suspicious bag near the Huruma Police Station.
Upon searching the bag, officers discovered human body parts, specifically a thoracic section, concealed in a nylon cement carrier.
When interrogated, Wambua reportedly confessed that the remains belonged to his wife and led police to his residence.
There, additional body parts were recovered from beneath his bed.
He is alleged to have admitted that the murder occurred following an argument after he found his wife in the company of another man.
“The respondent alleged that he found his wife named Joy Fridah Munani (deceased) with another man and when they got to the house an argument ensued that led to him commit the act and later chopped the body in order to dispose it,” read the court documents.
Police told senior principal magistrate Gilbert Shikwe that one of the suspected murder weapons, a panga, has since been recovered.
However, he says other body parts remain missing, and further investigations are required to piece together the full details of the crime.
Police told the court that the police are yet to conduct a postmortem examination, DNA testing to confirm the deceased’s identity, a mental health assessment of the suspect, and the recording of statements from key prosecution witnesses.
The magistrate allowed the police to detain the suspect as they investigated the murder.
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