Former Television news anchor Louis Otieno during a media briefing where he exonerated himself from the murder of a 26 years old Careen Chepchumba Kili at her house in Kilimani.Photo/HEZRON NJOROGE
Detectives investigating the murder of Careen Chepchumba Kili are now checking the call records of the mobile phone companies. Two telecom companies had given records to police by Tuesday that showed TV anchor Louis Otieno was not with Careen when she was murdered. One cell phone provider indicated that Careen had spent most of the time in and around Kilimani from February 12 until her body was discovered on February 14.
Information from the same service provider showed Otieno had been in Magadi and Karen during that period. Careen, the daughter of LAP Trust managing trustee Hosea Kili, was found strangled on Valentine's Day morning in her flat at Santonia Court, off Kirichwa Road in Kilimani area, Nairobi. She was an IT engineer with Kenya Power. Initially suicide was suspected until the postmortem found the cause of death was strangulation.
Otieno enjoyed a close relationship with Careen after he moved into Rose Park apartments in Kilimani a year ago. He occupied the ground floor flat while the Kili family lived in the flat above. Otieno has strongly denied any involvement in her death. “All that is happening now is to try and retrace the final movements of the deceased and some people we suspect might be having useful information to the investigations,” a police officer said yesterday.
Mobile phone records show where the user was connecting to the different masts at any time. Police hope that they can narrow down the suspect killers by tracking Careen's final movements and the phone location history of any suspects. Police are looking at communications made either through phone calls or text messaging. Detectives are interested in knowing whether Careen made any contact with any person before she died.
Otieno has been interrogated four times by the police. Two guards manning the gate to Santonia Court have also given statements. Careen's father Hosea Kili has given a statement about the information the family had prior to her death. On Wednesday evening, a gathering at the Central SDA Church in Milimani for prayers and a fundraiser urged the police to carry out comprehensive investigations and ensure her killers are brought to justice.
Finance acting minister Njeru Githae, MPs David Koech and Benjamin Lagat, and PSs Karega Mutahi and Tirop Kosgey said police should ensure that the suspects are brought to book. Initially police thought the cause was suicide after they recovered an alleged incomplete and torn suicide note in a dustbin in her house. But autopsy examinations by government and private pathologists found that she died of strangulation.
Detectives have gone back to her apartment where they dusted for fingerprints and looked for possible forensic evidence. Police on Monday took the samples for DNA testing from Otieno. Family and friends yesterday gathered at Central SDA Church for a final mass ahead of her burial today in Baraton, near Eldoret town.
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