Detectives have arrested the main suspect behind the gruesome murder of a couple in Nyamira County, which was reported on March 21, 2023.
The 40-year-old suspect Denis Ondara, who was armed with a ceska pistol loaded with 14 rounds of ammunition, was arrested following a 4-day chase that ended at the Isebania border in Migori County.
Detectives pounced on the armed and dangerous suspect this afternoon, shortly before he crossed the border to evade justice.
Edward Morema Nyangechi, 62 and Grace Mong'ina Morema, 58, both based in the U.S were found murdered in the house after they failed to turn up for breakfast by 10 am on the fateful morning. The couple lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States.
According to the initial report filed at Gesima Police Station, the house help Silvia Barongo, 19, was the first to become suspicious before she called the farmhand 30-year-old Jeremiah Bosire, and together they raised alarm attracting the attention of other villagers.
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It is while the villagers were conducting search that the lifeless body of the woman was discovered sprawled on a bed in a pool of blood in one of the bedrooms, while the man’s body was found in the garage. The bodies bore deep cuts on their heads while their legs and hands were tied together using electric cables.
An autopsy report released later by the government pathologist indicated that the two died as a result of strangulations and blunt object injuries on their heads and upper limbs.
Investigation into the incident was immediately launched as the Director of Criminal Investigations Mr Mohamed Amin, ordered a comprehensive probe into the murder most horrid, prompting the deployment of the extremely efficient homicide sleuths.
Four days ago, the team of detectives received information that the main suspect had been spotted in Ruai, where he had gone into hiding after the incident. The officers moved with speed and as they were closing in on him, he slipped their dragnet.
On Friday, May 20 at 3pm, the sleuths posing as hawkers selling the much revered mukombero roots along the border struck in one swift move and whisked the armed suspect away without firing a single shot.
Upon searching the suspect, 14 more rounds of 9mm calibre were recovered, assorted spanners, nuts, screw drivers, and pliers all used for breaking into parked vehicles.
The suspect is also believed to be behind a number of reported robbery with violence and murder incidents in Nairobi, Nyamira, Kisii, and Migori counties.
So far, 3 suspects have been arrested in connection with the twin murders.
