Digital footprints, money trail turn husband into suspect in wife's murder

Zachariah Wanjohi (left) consoles his mother in law Mary Njeri on May 26, 2025 at Keptembwo Police Station. Wanjohi has now been turned into the main suspect in the murder of his wife Hannah Waithera, killed in an unclear circumstance. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

When 23-year-old Ann Waithera vanished on the afternoon of May 21, 2025, her husband Zacharia Wanjohi was the first to raise the alarm. But what began as a frantic search soon spiralled into a chilling investigation, one that would turn the husband into the main suspect in a murder that has gripped Nakuru.

Waithera, an M-Pesa agent operating within Nakuru City, left her kiosk around 1pm to deposit Sh330,000 at a the Kenya Commercial Bank branch, and was never seen alive again.