The woman believed to be the spouse and first victim of the suspected Kware serial killer had not been seen by her family since 2021. The family only learned of her marriage to Collins Jumaisi after he claimed to have married and then killed her in June 2022.
Josephine Adisa, the missing woman’s mother, stated that her daughter, Imelda Akinyi Karenya, dropped out of school and left for their rural home in Moi’s Bridge, Uasin Gishu County, before disappearing and never being seen again.
“She would occasionally chat with some of her friends and siblings on social media, but since mid-2022, all her accounts went off and they never heard from her,” Adisa told reporters at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations headquarters in Nairobi on Monday night.
Adisa, a domestic worker in Fedha estate in Nairobi, said her second-born daughter disappeared in 2021. “She dropped out of school and traveled to Nairobi without my knowledge,” she stated.
Before her disappearance, Adisa mentioned that her daughter received a phone call from someone who claimed to be her husband. In early 2022, Karenya received another call from a different man who claimed to be a pastor living with her daughter in Nairobi’s Sinai slums.
“He never called again, and I never received any call from my daughter,” Adisa added. She recalls being in constant communication with her daughter for several years, but no family member has heard from her since early 2022.
