Mercy Keino’s body was discovered near St Mark’s Church, Westlands. June 17, 2011. [File, Standard]
Kenya is littered with a history of unresolved murders that have tainted the police image and eroded public confidence.
Some of the bizarre murders remain unravelled decades later.
Josiah Mwangi Kariuki
Popularly known as JM, the flamboyant and vocal politician was last seen alive on March 2, 1975, at Hilton hotel accompanied by President Jomo Kenyatta, before he went missing.
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Josiah Mwangi Kariuki. [File, Standard]
Days later, a Maasai herder stumbled on his badly mutilated body at Ngong Hills Forest.
Dr. Robert Ouko
After returning from an official trip in the US, the Foreign Affairs Minister went on the night of February 12, 1990, from his Koru farm in Muhoroni. Dr. Robert Ouko. [File, Standard]
The following day, his body was found by a local herdsboy. The charred body lay at the foot of Got Alila Hill, some three kilometres from his Koru home.
Father Anthony Kaiser
The American priest was shot dead on August 23, 2000, at Morendat along the Nakuru-Naivasha Road.
William Munuhe Gichuki
The freelance journalist cum businessman was found dead in his house in Karen on January 14, 2003. He had a bullet wound in his head.
William Munuhe Gichuki. [File, Standard]
Mercy Keino
Her body lying on Waiyaki Way was discovered by a passer-by near St Mark’s Church in Westlands on June 17, 2011.
Aboud Rogo
The Muslim cleric was killed in a drive-by shooting on August 27, 2012, by unknown assailants in Mombasa as he drove his wife to the hospital.
Sheikh Aboud Rogo Mohammed. [Evans Habil, Standard]
He was shot about 17 times.
