Factors Influencing Effectiveness of Murder Profiling Procedures: A Case of Serial Murders at Kihiu Mwiri Farmers' Company in Kenya by Robert Kennedy Otieno in JFSCI - Juniper Publishers
ases of mysterious murders, wrong convictions, unsuccessful prosecutions and murder suspects going scot-free, are on the increase in Kenya [1]. Many cases of murder remain unsolved and perpetrators are not apprehended leading to denial or delay of justice [2]. In most cases, murder investigations in Kenya are characterized by unsorted, messed-up, in-conclusive police inquiry files, which are often devoid of facts, analysis, refinement and editing [3]. Most recently, series of murder mysteries in Kenya that has been hitting the newspaper headlines are the murders of directors and staff of two companies known as Mbo- i-Kamiti and Kihiu Mwiri Farmers Company Limited. According to [4] the companies have been theatres of vicious confrontations and deaths. The murders at the two companies have been termed by the police as not ordinary and were well- planned [5].
Kihiu Mwiri Farmers Company Limited was a land buying company started in 1971 in Muranga South by majority of Kihiu Mwiri age set who were age-mates of President Kenyatta. The aim of forming the company was to buy land from departing white settlers. The company had a total of 6200 shareholders and 1300 acres of land [5]. The shareholders however discovered that their land was being shared out to some influential people in government who were non-shareholders and shareholders were not benefiting from it as intended. Some of the selfish company directors sabotaged the objectives of the company. Since 2013, eight directors of the company have been mysteriously killed [6].
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