{"id":216737,"date":"2025-12-15T10:31:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-two-suspects-arrested-over-murder-of-72-year-old-woman-in-kirinyaga\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T10:31:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:31:48","slug":"kenya-two-suspects-arrested-over-murder-of-72-year-old-woman-in-kirinyaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-two-suspects-arrested-over-murder-of-72-year-old-woman-in-kirinyaga\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Two Suspects Arrested Over Murder of 72-Year-Old Woman in Kirinyaga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Police in Kirinyaga County have arrested two key suspects in connection with the brutal murder of a 72-year-old woman whose body was found dumped in a thicket in Kerugoya East Sub-County<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The Directorate of Criminal Investigations detectives from Kirinyaga East apprehended the suspects following an intensive manhunt aided by forensic leads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The deceased, identified as Margaret Wandauma Maina, was discovered on December 14, 2025, in a secluded thicket in Kegua village, Kirinyaga&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512150131.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Police in Kirinyaga County have arrested two key suspects in connection with the brutal murder of a 72-year-old woman whose body was found dumped in a thicket in Kerugoya East Sub-County. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations detectives from Kirinyaga East apprehended the suspects following an intensive manhunt aided by forensic leads. The deceased, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":216738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[53141,258,256,4304,4688,430,5894,304,257,254,4360,4307],"class_list":["post-216737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-72yearold","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kirinyaga","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspects","tag-woman"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}