Suspect Confesses to Killing Constable Pauline Wangari on Their First Date after Meeting on Facebook
Murder suspect Joseph Ochieng’ has reportedly confessed to killing Pauline Wangari, a 24-year-old Murang’a prison warden.
Ochieng’, who was arrested in Kericho County on Thursday, has revealed what transpired on the night the constable was brutally killed.
The suspect says he met Ms. Wangari on Facebook and they have been communicating online until Monday, May 13th when they met face-to-face for the first time.
Ochieng', who claims to be an artiste, says he traveled from Nairobi that morning to meet Wangari in Murang'a for the first time.
The Kisumu-born man has told detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) that an altercation ensued between him and the deceased after she refused to take some hard drugs, which he had taken with him to Wangari's house in Kiharu.
During the argument, the man says he started strangling her before she fell down.
“Sent into panic mode, the suspect narrated how he reached for a kitchen knife and stabbed her in the chest, neck, and abdomen, and, thereafter, put the knife firmly in her grip in a bid to make it look like Wangari had killed herself,” a DCI officer who sought anonymity has revealed.
In his testimony, the suspect has also revealed that they had sex before the heated quarrel.
Ochieng' is said to be the suspect who was captured on CCTV cameras entering Wangari’s house at 9 pm on Monday, and exiting at 3 am on Tuesday.
The cameras further showed the suspect carrying the deceased’s bag, her mobile phone, and a TV set.
Ochieng,24, was arrested on a roadblock at Kipsitet area in Kericho County on Thursday evening.
He was traveling to Kisumu in a Mercedes Benz alongside two other people – a man and a woman, who was the driver. Police officers used his phone signal to locate him.
Wangari was found dead on her bed on Wednesday, with her entire bedding soaked in blood.
She had been stabbed severally in the head, abdomen, and neck. A roll of bhang was also placed between her lips, and a kitchen knife clutched in her right hand.