On January 2, in Githurai, Nairobi, 65-year-old Joseph Njuguna and five other members of his family were found dead in their house. Detectives believe they inhaled carbon monoxide.
Then seven days after the Warunge horror, a man in Laikipia County set his house on fire, burning himself and his two daughters to death.
January started with the chilly moisture of soft rains palming most parts of the country, then came the chilling familicides.
A familicide is a murder or a murder-suicide in which a perpetrator kills multiple close family members in quick succession.
