Documented criminal cases from Kenya are added only when reliable sources support a substantive account. Court findings are separated from allegations, pending appeals stay visible, unresolved responsibility remains unresolved, and victim context comes before spectacle.
A case appears under Solved / Adjudicated only when the available record supports a sufficiently definitive investigative or legal outcome. Cases with unresolved responsibility, open investigations or materially incomplete outcomes belong under Unsolved / Partial.
Kenyan fashion designer and LGBTQ activist Edwin Chiloba was killed near Eldoret in 2023. Jacktone Odhiambo was convicted in 2024 and sentenced to 50 years in prison.
Open case file →Moi University medical student Ivy Wangechi was murdered in Eldoret in 2019. Naftali Njami Kinuthia was convicted in 2023 and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
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Okoth Obado, Michael Oyamo and Caspal Obiero were convicted of Sharon Otieno's 2018 murder in July 2026. Sentencing is scheduled for September 16, 2026.
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The bombing killed 213 people in Nairobi. Multiple participants and facilitators were later convicted and sentenced.
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Three police officers and a civilian informer were convicted of the three 2016 murders; a fifth police officer was acquitted.
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Twenty-one people were killed. Facilitators were later convicted, including two men sentenced to 30 years in 2025.
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The attack killed 148 people. Facilitators were convicted, with the central convictions preserved on appeal.
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The Nairobi mall attack killed 67 people in widely cited reporting. Two facilitators were convicted of terrorism-related offences.
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Monica Kimani was killed in Nairobi in 2018. Joseph Kuria Irungu was convicted of her murder in 2024.
Open case file →Cases in which responsibility remains unresolved, materially incomplete or legally unadjudicated.
Dutch-Kenyan businessman Tob Cohen disappeared in July 2019 and his body was found at his Nairobi home in September. Sarah Wairimu Cohen is on trial for murder and denies the charge; no final judgment has been entered.
Open case file →Meshack Yebei disappeared in December 2014. A body found separately near Voi was identified as his by DNA in 2015, while Kenyan reporting in 2022 still described the murder as unresolved.
Open case file →Kenyan MP J. M. Kariuki disappeared on March 2, 1975 and was later found murdered. Parliament conducted a major inquiry, but fifty years later no one had been held criminally accountable for the assassination.
Open case file →Kenyan distance-running champion Agnes Tirop was murdered in Iten in 2021. Ibrahim Rotich pleaded not guilty, later absconded while on bail, and the High Court authorized the still-pending trial to proceed in his absence.
Open case file →MP George Muchai, two police bodyguards and his driver were killed in Nairobi in 2015. Four defendants remained in the High Court murder case after a 2025 no-case ruling, while related robbery convictions were handled separately.
Open case file →Pio Gama Pinto was assassinated in Nairobi in 1965. Kisilu Mutua was convicted, while later official truth-seeking work said wider responsibility and motive were not fully resolved.
Open case file →Josslyn Hay was shot dead near Nairobi in January 1941. Sir Jock Delves Broughton was tried and acquitted, and no one has ever been convicted of the murder.
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The businessman was shot dead along Nairobi's Ngong Road in May 2016. Multiple investigative leads and public theories emerged, but no one has been convicted.
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A former British soldier was charged in Kenya in 2025 and denies the allegation. Extradition proceedings remain pending.
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The British wildlife photographer was unlawfully killed in 1988. Multiple proceedings produced no murder conviction.
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The IEBC technology manager was murdered days before Kenya's 2017 general election. No one has been convicted.
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The Foreign Affairs minister disappeared in 1990 and was later found dead. No final murder conviction established who killed him.
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Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njoroge was convicted and executed. Wider questions about possible organizers were never resolved by a later criminal judgment.
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Kenya's truth commission found a systematic attack on civilians. Victim totals remain disputed and comprehensive criminal accountability was never achieved.
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Multiple criminal proceedings remain active. The murder case and manslaughter case cover different allegations and are not treated as a single final judgment.
Open case file →Crime by Region separates proven facts, allegations, acquittals and pending proceedings. Cases are not marked solved merely because a suspect was named.
Graphic detail is minimized. Sources are used to explain investigations and legal outcomes rather than sensationalize suffering.