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24 Year Old Woman Found Murdered in Airbnb Apartment in Roysambu

By: Peris Gachago
January 16, 2024

Police in Nairobi are presently looking into the strange death of an unnamed lady whose dismembered body was found at an Airbnb home in Roysambu.

The disturbing chain of events began when a male client in charge of renting the place returned the key early on Sunday morning before suddenly leaving.

Risper Muthoni, the Airbnb property manager, reported that the unknown suspect secured the room around 3 p.m. on Saturday, January 13.

Muthoni informed the media that, under the policy, once paid, visitors are entitled to an uninterrupted stay until the specified check-out time.

The horrific discovery was not made until Sunday morning, when the caretaker reported finding strange polythene bags and a blood-soaked bed sheet on the stairway.

After many failed efforts to elicit a response, Muthoni and her crew entered the unlocked room, where everything seemed normal save for blood streaks on the door.

They then filed a report at the Kasarani police station.

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According to Muthoni, the police were provided the suspects identify as well as pertinent CCTV video from a nearby site where he had obtained the premises' keys.

On Sunday, law enforcement agents were spotted holding polythene bags and a blood-soaked bedsheet, believed to contain the deceased woman's bones.

Jimmy Kimari, the head of Kasarani Divisional Criminal Investigations, was there at the scene and delivered a harsh warning about forthcoming crackdowns on Airbnb operators who did not have security cameras installed, urging them to maintain complete guest records.

The woman's body was found just a week after John Matara, a suspected serial killer said to have slain socialite Starlet Wahu inside an AirBnB in Nairobi's South B neighborhood, was taken into custody by police.