Body of Murdered 12-Year-Old Kenyan Girl Exhumed for Medical Examination

Police have exhumed the body of a 12-year-old girl who was found dead in Moi’s Bridge, Uasin Gishu County last year.

The body of Grace Njeri, one of the alleged victims of self-confessed Moi’s Bridge serial killer Evans Juma Wanjala, was exhumed for postmortem and DNA tests. She is believed to be among the five minors abducted, defiled, and brutally killed by Wanjala, who was arrested last month.

Njeri’s body was dug up by detectives from the Homicide and Forensic department at her grandparent’s home in Karara-Nyakinyua in Moi’s Bridge in an exercise that took three hours. 

This came after detective Peter Kamau, who is investigating the murder of the five minors, obtained a court order to exhume the body for a DNA test to confirm whether the body that was buried on June 24th, 2020 was Njeri’s. 

The teenager was reported missing on May 21st, 2020 before decomposing body parts were found at Soronoi Farm on June 18th. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said the body parts were not subjected to postmortem or DNA tests before burial.

Following his arrest in July, Wanjala confessed to defiling and killing four other children. He has been in custody since July 16th.

The suspect was captured on CCTV footage with his latest victim 13-year-old Linda Cherono, leading to his arrest. Cherono, who went missing on June 11th, was found murdered five days later near Baharini Dam.

Police said the five minors were lured by the suspect from different locations within Moi’s Bridge and were taken to secluded areas where they were defiled and strangled to death.

The other victims were identified as Mary Elusa (14), Stacy Nabiso (10), and Lucy Wanjiru (15). All the bodies had evidence of defilement.