Saika Horror: Father, Wife and Daughter Found Dead Inside Their Home After Days of Silence
Justus Wambua Kavyu, 62; his wife Tabitha Kathini Wambua; and their daughter Stacy Kiluti Wambua, 25, were found dead in their home in Saika Estate, Nairobi, in early November 2025.
The apartment had been locked for days. Neighbors finally noticed the heavy, rotting smell that no one could ignore any longer. A relative who had been unable to reach them raised the alarm. When police forced the door, the place had already become a sealed box of decomposition.
Justus was hanging in the bathroom, a rope around his neck. The small, poorly ventilated space had trapped the heat and the stench. Tabitha lay on a bed in one of the bedrooms behind a closed door. Stacy was found in another section of the house. Both women showed visible injuries. The bodies had been there long enough that the advanced state of decay made the scene unmistakable: death had moved in and stayed.
This was not a family of outsiders or loud troublemakers. Justus was a quiet, dependable man from Nzatani village in Migwani, Kitui County, the son of Wellington Kavyu Munyasya and Naomi Kiluti Kavyu. He left behind eight siblings. Tabitha was the steady one, patient and protective. Stacy, twenty-five, was the home girl who stayed close, avoided drama, and preferred her parents’ company. They were private. That privacy cut both ways.
Two years earlier, in 2023, they had buried another daughter, Chelsea, after she died of cancer. The loss hollowed them out. Justus eventually left the Saika apartment and returned to the rural home in Kitui to farm, saying he could not bear to leave Chelsea alone in the village ground. Tabitha and Stacy remained in Nairobi. Phone calls and occasional visits kept the thin connection.
By early November, the phones went unanswered. Messages stayed unread. When Justus came back to Saika, the two competing stories that investigators still had to untangle began.
One version said he walked into the house, found his wife and daughter already dead, and being overwhelmed he then hanged himself. The other said he killed them and then took his own life.
A note was recovered and sent for forensic analysis to determine whether the handwriting and the words were truly his. Detectives from Njiru Sub-County examined the scene, phone records, movements and neighbor statements. The women’s injuries kept the murder-and-death theory open.
The bodies were taken to the mortuary. On 22 November 2025, the cortege left KU Funeral Home for Nzatani. Hundreds gathered under heavy skies. Three caskets two white, one brown ,were placed side by side and lowered next to Chelsea’s grave.
Relatives, neighbors and clergy spoke of a warm, hardworking family that had been private to the point of isolation. Gospel singer Maureen Tabitha, a relative, publicly called them her uncle, aunt and cousin and asked how a family was supposed to mourn three more losses on top of the earlier one.
In a city of millions, the silence inside that locked Saika door had been complete. No one heard a struggle. No one noticed the days passing until the smell forced the issue.
The investigation continued after the burial. The exact order of the deaths, the meaning of the note and the full medical findings remained under official control.
What was left in the open was the fact of three bodies in one apartment, a prior grief that never lifted, and a family that had stopped answering the outside world long before the door was kicked in.
