Just a day after the retrieval of the body of Sharon Otieno, all eyes are set on the Criminal Investigations Directorate whose team of 16 detectives is already at advanced stages of the investigations.
DCI Boss George Kinoti on Wednesday dispatched the sleuths drawn from the Homicide Investigations, Special Crimes and Serious Crimes unit to uncover the faces behind the killing of the Rongo University student.
Kinoti indicated that the officers had three days to tackle the matter involving the abduction of Nation journalist Barrack Oduor who escaped from the hands of the gangsters suspected to have taken the life of the expectant student.
Detectives say the investigations will take a three-tier approach with the persons of interest being on the radar as pressure mounts on the directorate to deliver justice to Sharon's family.
A report by the Nation quotes an officer privy to the probe who divulged that the sleuths will track the movements of one Michael Oyamo, who is Migori Governor Okoth Obado's personal assistant alongside those of the County boss.
They will also be keen on following the movements of the journalist before and after the incidences that preceded the killing of the student who was already a mother of two children.
The slain student's movements will also be traced in a bid to make sure the planners, executors and accomplices of the crime are known and pursued.
More aid into the investigation will be anticipated from the telephone conversations between the persons of interest in the probe. The calls of at least five people including governor Obado and Mr Oyamo will be scrutinized by the detectives.
“We have also to look at the telephone conversations and texts exchanged between persons of interest because we understand all these people are well known one another and had been communicating for months and threats were exchanged,” a detective told Daily Nation.
With the seven-months pregnancy being suspected to be at the center of the crime, the officers indicated that a DNA test will be carried out to lift the lid on paternity querries in Sharon's death.
A postmortem to be carried out on Sharon's body on Thursday will also shed some light on the circumstances under which the criminals committed the crime.
