For 10 days, the family of 23-year-old Rachael Moraa clung to hope, dialing unanswered phones and scouring hospitals in a frantic search for their missing kin.
The Naivasha woman went missing on December 8, 2025, just hours after leaving her home in Kinamba, a Sh8.6 million house purchased for her by her British boyfriend.
Her family reported her missing at Naivasha Police Station on December 11, 2025 and intensified their search for her.
Rachel Moraa went missing on December 8, 2025 before her body was found at the Naivasha Sub County Hospital mortuary on December 17, 2025.
Moraa’s father George Makori told the Daily Nation that before her disappearance, his daughter had called him, explaining she had differences with her boyfriend, who evicted her from the house.
“She called and told me they had quarrelled and that her boyfriend had sent a lawyer to evict her. The lawyer claimed she was just a caretaker of the house. She went missing while searching for alternative accommodation. But when we spoke, she seemed fine and told me she was in the process of relocating,” Mr Makori recalled.
But hope turned to agony when Moraa’s body was discovered at the Naivasha Sub-County Hospital mortuary on December 17, 2025 ending the family’s 10-day search.
Mortuary attendants lifted her body from cold storage and placed it on a gurney. As family and friends entered the mortuary to identify her remains, their screams pierced the room while her British boyfriend was conspicuously absent — having reportedly flown back to his home country.
“They told me she was brought in during the early hours of December 9 and that she had died in a hit-and-run accident,” her father said.
Records showed that Moraa was reportedly hit by a vehicle in Kayole, along the busy Naivasha–Nairobi highway.
Moraa was laid to rest on January 23, 2026, at her parents’ home in Kisii, nearly a month after her body was discovered.
The father said he suspects his daughter was murdered and the killers disguised the killing as an accident.
Rachel Moraa went missing on December 8, 2025 before her body was found at the Naivasha Sub County Hospital mortuary on December 17, 2025. She was buried on January 23, 2026.
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“For over a month, we have lived in agony. All we want is justice for Moraa. She was young woman with a bright future. I want to know who killed my daughter and why,” Mr Makori said.
Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Homicide department in Nairobi have taken up the case, which had initially been assigned to the Naivasha DCI detectives led by Isaac Kiama.
“We are tracing and interrogating people she last interacted with as part of the probe. We are also analysing data from her phone to understand her communications hours before she went missing. We have identified five individuals due to summoned as investigations continue,” said a senior DCI officer.
An autopsy conducted at Naivasha Sub-County Hospital mortuary by government pathologist Titus Ngulungu, in the presence of the family’s pathologist, revealed that Moraa died of internal bleeding caused by trauma from a blunt object.
“As a result of my examination, I conclude that the cause of death was internal bleeding due to trauma from a blunt object. She had broken ribs and physical injuries on her face, legs, and hands,” Dr Ngulungu’s report reads.
Moraa had met her British boyfriend on Facebook in 2023 and their relationship blossomed in June 2024 when the boyfriend visited Kenya. Together, they acquired the Kinamba house and lived there as a couple.
Mr Makori said he last communicated with Moraa's boyfriend on January 17, when he promised to attend Moraa’s burial. However, he failed to show up.
“He sent some money for the burial plans and said he would attend, but we haven’t heard from him since. His phone has been off. We later learnt that he came back to Kenya briefly before flying out,” Makori said.
Meanwhile, the family remains hopeful that detectives will uncover the truth behind Moraa’s death.
