Body of missing woman found in mortuary in Kisii county.
Written by Eunice Onyancha on June 19, 2026
Detectives in Etago, Kisii county have launched a murder investigation after a family searching for their missing relative discovered her body at Tabaka Mission Hospital mortuary.
The incident was reported on Wednesday, June 17, after her relatives traced her body to the mortuary.
The family told police they that had been searching for her after she went missing and believed she had been living with a man whose identity they did not know.
Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations from Etago visited the mortuary and established that the body had been brought there by an unidentified man driving a white Toyota Probox.
According to the mortuary attendant, the man claimed he had forgotten his identification documents and the Occurrence Book reference number in the vehicle.
He left to retrieve them but never returned. The vehicle’s registration number was not recorded.
A police examination of the body revealed visible head injuries, blood clots and marks on the back and thighs consistent with assault A post-mortem examination conducted at the facility concluded that Lenah died from blunt force trauma to the head.
Investigators have classified the case as murder and are investigating the circumstances surrounding her death, including efforts to identify and trace the man who abandoned the body at the mortuary
