3. Agnes Tirop
Agnes Tirop, a former world cross country champion, was murdered in 2021, at her Iten home.
Tirop has supposedly told her siblings that she wanted to leave her husband Rotich. She said that he had been spending her money at bars while she was away, and that she was tired of it.
He was suspecting she was having an affair and pointed fingers at her childhood friend.
Tirop was found stabbed and beaten to death in her home.
Rotich had fled, leaving a note, reportedly confessing to the crime and saying that the relationship had been “full of fights.”
Police found a knife and a club at the scene. Rotich later admitted in an affidavit to killing Tirop, but pleaded not guilty to her murder, claiming that he was provoked into killing her because he believed she was having an affair with her childhood friend:
She was buried on what would have been her 26th birthday.
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