Kenyan police re-arrest suspect who killed Boston nurse

After making his getaway from a Nairobi police station about a week ago, the guy who was charged with killing his fiancée in Boston and then running away to Kenya has been taken into custody again, according to authorities.

Nairobi police chief Adamson Bungei told CNN that Kevin Kinyanjui Kang'ethe, 42, was taken into custody on Tuesday at a relative's home in Ngong, a suburb of the Kenyan capital, following a tip.

His extradition to the United States will proceed, Bungei stated, adding that he was currently being held at a different police station and that his "custody is assured."

According to US authorities, on November 1, 2023, not long after killing his partner, he took a plane to Kenya. Two days after Margaret "Maggie" Mbitu was reported missing, her body was discovered in Kang'ethe's SUV in a parking garage at Boston Logan International Airport.

Bungei attributed the suspect's "unfortunate" escape from a closely guarded Nairobi police station last Wednesday to "unethical conduct."

A man posing as Kang'ethe's attorney showed up at the station and asked to speak with him; according to a police report, Kang'ethe made his escape "by running away."

Kang'ethe was freed from his cell by the officers, who then left them alone in an office, from where he fled.

On January 30, Kang'ethe was detained outside a nightclub in Nairobi. Kenyan officials initiated formal procedures to extradite him to Boston to face murder charges after receiving an application for extradition from the United States.