Before Careen Chepchumba died, she allegedly wrote Louis Otieno but it is highly unlikely that justice will happen any time soon for any of them.
Otieno, according to his lawyer, is ailing and his appearing in court is dependent on his health.
In the letter, found lying next to her lifeless body and which had fresh ink, Chepchumba wrote, “I wish they would let me do my way. Even if we were not together, you are still in my heart. You will still remain so dear to me Louis.”
The note indicated that Chepchumba had written those words hours before her death.
Security guards at the apartment where Chepchumba resided said the last person they saw interacting with her was her father and brother.
She was dropped by her brother the night before she met her death. The guards also claim that they were not able to monitor who visited Chepchumba after her brother left.
Pathologists who carried out a post-mortem on Careen’s body confirmed that she had sex with her killer before she died. They also claim that she was strangled to death and whoever did that was not in a hurry as they even had time to tuck in her body safely between the sheets
Louis Otieno, the former TV news anchor has been accused of murdering Chepchumba but has consistently denied the allegations.
Appearing on KTN’s investigative piece Casefiles by Dennis Onsarigo, Otieno acknowledged knowing Chepchumba. Chepchumba’s family, according to the programme, refused to be interviewed.
Several theories regarding the murder have been perpetuated on the internet even though nobody really knows what happened to Chepchumb between the time she was dropped outside her apartment and the time she met her death.
And her case joins several others which remain unsolved including Mercy Keino who died on June 17, 2011, Monica Njeri who died in 1980 after being attacked by an American in Mombasa.
Lucy Kabura was murdered in April 1983 after being raped and strangled by an American sailor. According to owaahh.com, the sailor known only as Tyson was one of 9, 000 sailors on USS America and other ships that were on liberty in Mombasa at the time. The murder remains unsolved as the trail has faded.
The most publicised case is that of Julie Ward, John Ward’s daughter, Julie’s dismembered remains were found in the thickets of Maasai Mara game reserve on September 13, 1988.
John Ward dedicated his life to getting justice for his daughter but to date, more than 200 visits to Kenya and spending a fortune trying to unearth how his daughter died, nothing has come out of it.
Then on April 8, 1968, Sofia Village residents found two female bodies floating in the Athi River. The bodies had been stuffed in a sack and then weighed down with rocks. According to the blog, Sara Massa, a 23-year-old Ugandan policewoman, and Lillian Millie, a 17-year-old Kampala bar hostess had been dead for a week. They weren’t just any ordinary women, they were spies.
It’s a long political story but to say the least, the two women may be got justice as five men were arrested and charged with the murders.
Of the five, three were found guilty and sentenced to death and hanged at Kamiti Prison. The other two were acquitted but were arrested outside the court and extradited to Uganda.
And then there was Captain Judy Angaine.
On March 30 1978, someone she knew and let into her house raped and strangled her. He then carried her lifeless body into the bathtub and left the water flowing.
Judy's father, Jackson Harvester Angaine, was the Minister of Lands and Settlement at the time.
The case which roped in a prominent politician and Judy’s boyfriend David Kisila who was a Major in the military then.
Suspicion immediately fell on Kisila and he was arrested and charged with murder. The hasty investigations ignored a few facts and on November 1, 1978, the court acquitted Major Kisila.
Captain Judy Angaine’s murder is now on the long list of unsolved cases in the country.