Muranga Woman Detained In The Death Of Her Taxi Driver Husband

Police officers in Muranga have detained the wife of a missing taxi driver after his body was found dumped in a dam.

After identifying the body of the driver who went missing 21 days ago, his wife has been arrested on suspicion of his murder.

Evans Mochara's body was discovered and thrown in Maragua Dam in Murang'a County on October 14, two days after he went missing from his house in Utawala's Mihango neighborhood.

Teresia Masese, his wife, was caught a week later after making a suspected missing person report, and she will now face murder charges. 

Police are carefully analyzing phone call data and hunting for potential accomplices as part of the ongoing inquiry to discover who was in communication with the dead.

Teresia, the key suspect in her husband's disappearance and eventual murder, appeared at the Makadara Law Courts on Monday, where the police sought a miscellaneous application to keep her for another seven days.

However, the scenario changed dramatically last Saturday when an unidentified body discovered in Maragua Dam, Murang'a, was positively identified as that of 47-year-old Evans Moracha.

The police amended their plea, requesting 21 days to complete their investigations.

According to preliminary investigations, the main suspect communicated often with the missing person. According to call records, she was the last person to speak to her husband at 21:06 hours on Wednesday last week, just four hours before he was brought up from his house at 1 a.m. on Thursday.

The suspect filed a missing person complaint at Kayole Police Station on Saturday, two days after Evans went missing. It happened to be the same day Evans Moracha's rotting body was discovered.

A week after her suspicious report was discovered, the culprit was apprehended. During the interrogation, she denied speaking to or seeing her husband that day, and she had previously refused to cooperate when summoned by the police.

Evans' car took a curious journey before the body was discovered. On Thursday, it departed the Chokaa area at 1:44 a.m., connecting Kangundo Road, passing via Sagana at 03:49 a.m., and then Kirinyaga 54 minutes later.

The vehicle was spotted in Kasarani, Nairobi, at 06:50 a.m. and subsequently at the Astrol Petrol Station in Runda before going on to Gitaru and then Ongata Rongai at 10:02 a.m. It was later seen at South C at 11:09 a.m. and Airport South Road in Pipeline at 3:01 p.m. before being abandoned in Nairobi's Njiiru neighborhood, just a few kilometers from his home.