After detectives releasing the DNA results into the investigations of the murder case of business woman Monica Kimani, they have taken Journalist Jacque Maribe’s Knife for tests.
Maribe’s fiance Joseph Irungu alias Joe Jowie is the prime suspect in the murder case.
On Thursday a DNA report released by detectives put Jowie close to the murder scene as finger prints tests also matched him.
One of the Kenyan local dailies on Friday reported that detectives on Thursday night obtained a knife belonging to Maribe and subjected it to forensic tests to establish if it was the murder weapon used to slit Monica’s throat on September 19.
Police reports concluded that Monica’s killer was highly trained and executed her with the precision of a trained assassin.
The reports further revealed that there was no struggle or noise made by Monica when her killer struck.
Monica’s body was discovered by her brother George in a bathtub at her Luciane apartments on Kitale Lane off Dennis Pritt road on 20th September 2018.
“I came to check on her since my mother had called and she wasn’t picking. I sent her a message but she never replied yet we were to meet since she was to travel to Dubai today,” remarked George when he spoke to Citizen Digital.
The deceased, ran a family business in South Sudan where she had just returned from and it is alleged that she had been in the company of two of her friends on that fateful night.
It was revealed that she had moved into her current residence in June 2018 after leaving a house she had bought at Ruaka.
The slain businesswoman was on September 28 laid to rest in her family’s farm in Chemichemi village, Gilgil in Nakuru County.
During her burial, Reverend Kennedy Mbatia stated that the family had forgiven the killers but called for the culprits to be prosecuted.