Mt Kenya murder mysteries: Some wives poison husbands by cooking porridge with steel wool and sand

Gladys Chania is in court for the murder of her engineer husband George Mwangi. [PHOTO: FIDELIS KABUNYI]

The chilling murder of Rwanda-based engineer George Mwangi for which his wife and Kiambu politician Gladys Chania has been arrested as a prime suspect has once again brought to the fore a string domestic violence related murders in Mt Kenya region. While the deaths are isolated, they have an eerie similarity. Most times, the victims are reported missing only to be found dead in their homes or their bodies buried in shallow graves or dumped in septic tanks, farms, forests and rivers.

Mwangi's murder is no different. He was reported missing, only for his lifeless body to found in dumped in a forest a day later in murder that detectives suspect revolved around a love triangle.
"After conducting a thorough forensic documentation of the house today, detectives based at the Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau, Homicide Department, Forensic Crime Scene and Photographic units have concluded that he was murdered in his bedroom at the top floor," DCI revealed in a statement.