A suspect surrendered to police and confessed he had killed his wife in a domestic fight in a village in Mau Narok, Nakuru County.
He told police that after he had killed his wife, identified as Risper Chepkurui, 24, in their rental house in Tipis Town, Mau Narok, he went to his home in Kihingo area to hide there.
He informed his mother of the incident, and after consultation, the suspect was advised to surrender himself at Ndeffo police station, where he was subsequently re-arrested.
Police said they would process him for murder charges. The motive of the murder was not immediately established, police said.
The body of Chepkurui who was a casual worker in the area was found sprawled in her house long after her murder.
Her husband and her two-year-old baby boy were missing when the body was found on September 29, 2025, police said. The man surrendered to the police later on.
The house where the body was found had blood stains and there were indications of struggle that led to the murder.
Police said they are looking for the husband as a person of interest in the murder.
Police said the walls of the house were full of blood stains and it is suspected that the assailant hit the head of the victim against the walls causing the death.
The body of the woman was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures, police said.
Elsewhere in Soy, Uasin Gishu County’s Budalangi village, a 17-year-old girl was arrested after she threw her three months old baby into a stream.
The infant died of drowning. The teenager told police she could not manage to bring up the minor, hence her move to throw it to the Sergoit Budalangi stream.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and investigations.
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