Olasyke:
No naww. Nothing good ever comes from FWBs from craigslist.

Now this white nigga done cut her into pieces because she didn't give him sex and she yabbed him for taking her money and then, he has buried her parts in different places.
Another cold case for the cops.
Damn girl. This greencard hustle shaa.

1stGenAmerican:
This guy’s neighbors saw him in his backyard burning something in a 55 gallon drum close to the time he bought the shovel and boots. He killed her then destroyed her body.

1stGenAmerican:


She became his girlfriend and moved to another state with him. The money wasn’t taken until after she was last seen or heard from.

Olasyke:

Oh, Okay then.

Maybe Just some domestic dispute and he went overboard. Damn! Now she's gone and probably buried in a shallow grave somewhere.

backnbeta:
Guy looks like a killer! I hope the fatso didn't bury her body in a shallow grave in a swampy area with the shovel, while wearing the boots. I wonder when exactly they'll find that "probable cause" and arrest this hitman

1stGenAmerican:
This guy’s neighbors saw him burning something in a 55 gallon drum close to the time he bought the shovel and boots. I don’t think she’s alive.

backnbeta:
Guy looks like a killer! I hope the fatso didn't bury her body in a shallow grave in a swampy area with the shovel, while wearing the boots. I wonder when exactly they'll find that "probable cause" and arrest this hitman

BeanmanX:
She's probably dead,,,,,

1stGenAmerican:
(CNN)Irene Gakwa's last WhatsApp video call with her parents was filled with gentle ribbing. But beneath the banter were hints that something was off.

When her face appeared on the phone screen, her dad teased her that she looked hungry and tired. Her smile was more subdued, he noted. Her short hair, usually braided, was rumpled.
"Make sure you drink hot milk and relax," her dad said from his living room in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
That was February 24, the last time anyone in her family saw her.
A month later -- less than three years after Gakwa left Kenya for the United States -- her family reported her missing. At the time of the February video call, Gakwa's parents were not aware she was living in Gillette, Wyoming, with a man she'd met on a Craigslist forum.
They also had no way of knowing that police would later accuse the man of removing money from her checking account, maxing out her credit card and deleting her email account. And they never imagined that six months would go by without a word from her.

"She's always been a daddy's girl," said her father, Francis Kambo, in a recent phone interview from Nairobi. He took a deep breath as he recalled that last video call with his only daughter and youngest of his three children.
"She was supposed to come home for Christmas this year. I was going to buy that ticket myself for her to come if she couldn't afford it," he added, his voice shaking.
"Now I don't know if I'll ever see her again."
Her worried family members span two continents
Gakwa's worried family spans two continents 9,000 miles apart.
Her parents live in Nairobi while her two older brothers, Chris Munga and Kennedy Wainaina, live in the Idaho city of Meridian -- a Boise suburb.
Her father started worrying in late February when she did not respond to repeated video calls. This was unusual for the 32-year-old, who spoke to her parents about every other day.

And her written messages sounded odd, her family said. Instead of the mix of Swahili and Kenyan slang she uses, the messages were in stilted English -- like someone was using Google Translate to send them, said Wainaina, her oldest brother.
"The texts would be out of place," her father said.
In early March -- between the last video call and the day she was reported missing -- her parents received some short WhatsApp messages from her account. Some made excuses for why she wasn't doing video calls.
"Dad, I dropped my phone in the water and now the microphone doesn't work," one message said.
Another said, "I just want you to know I love and miss you and mom."
"We miss you ... we want to see you, not just chat on WhatsApp," her father responded. "We love you always. You will ... be my daughter forever."

Her boyfriend told police she packed her bags and left
The last WhatsApp message came on March 9, her father said.
The three siblings share a cell phone family plan. After Gakwa's brothers could not reach her, they looked through her phone records and called a close friend she'd talked to numerous times.
That's how they found out she had been living with her boyfriend, Nathan Hightman, 39, in a modest three-bedroom house in Gillette. The couple had dated since 2020, but had broken up several times, Wainaina said. Her brothers thought they'd parted ways and were not aware they'd rekindled their romance and moved in together.

Her brothers reported her missing to the Gillette Police Department on March 20, and an officer talked to Hightman the same day, according to an affidavit of probable cause in a related separate criminal case against her boyfriend.
Hightman told the officer he last saw Gakwa in late February, when she came home one night, packed her clothing in two plastic bags and left in a dark-colored SUV, the affidavit said. He told police he hadn't heard from her since. He also said he withdrew money from her bank account so she would be forced to contact him if she needed money, the affidavit said.

Hightman did not respond to the brothers' request to hand over her stuff in their home, Wainaina said. They implored him to give them her documents, including her Kenyan passport, but Hightman declined, Wainaina added.
Hightman is considered a person of interest in her disappearance and has "not made himself available to detectives looking to resolve questions that exist in the investigation," Gillette police said in a statement.

"We believe he has information pertaining to the disappearance of Irene, but he has elected not to provide that information to law enforcement at this time," Gillette police detective Dan Stroup told CNN.

CNN has made repeated attempts to reach Hightman via phone, text and email, but he has not responded. CNN also left messages for his public defender, Dallas Lamb, but did not hear back.
Hightman has not been charged in Gakwa's disappearance, but is a suspect in financial crimes against her after she went missing. Gillette police arrested him in May and charged him with two felony counts of theft, one felony count of unlawful use of a credit card, and two felony counts of crimes against intellectual property for allegedly changing her banking account password and deleting her email account after she vanished.
Between February and March, Hightman transferred nearly $3,700 from Gakwa's bank account to his own and spent an additional $3,230 on her credit card, court documents allege. He also changed her banking passwords and deleted her Gmail account, court documents said. All the changes were made from an IP address associated with Hightman after the date he told police Gakwa had moved out, according to the probable cause affidavit.
"This would indicate it was Nathan Hightman accessing Irene's account, removing money and changing the password to deny access to Irene," the affidavit said. "These transactions began on February 25, 2022, and continued through March 2022."
Hightman has pleaded not guilty to all charges and was released on a $10,000 bond. His pretrial conference is scheduled for November.

Her boyfriend bought boots, and a shovel using her credit card.
The Gillette Police Department said it has executed approximately 24 search warrants in the case, including at Hightman's home and at several banks to track activity on Gakwa's accounts.
During one of the searches, investigators recovered a shovel and boots Hightman bought at a Walmart in late February using Gakwa's Visa card, according to court documents.

In April, Gillette police issued a statement naming Hightman "a person of interest" in the case and saying, "he has not made himself available to detectives looking to resolve questions that exist in the investigation."
The police added, "Irene went missing under suspicious circumstances. ... digital evidence, including location data, is also being analyzed and has provided positive leads."
Stroup, the detective, said the investigation is ongoing.
"In the event probable cause is established, appropriate action will be taken," he said.

1stGenAmerican:


A killer is exactly what he looks like! There’s almost no black people but many white supremacists in Wyoming so police might be lax with him.

BeanmanX:
What if I tell u that nothing will happen,,,,,as far as it's a white man that committed the crime,,he will go scott free without any hefty punishment..

AlphaTaikun:

I like the fact that you posted this unfolding crime story here on NL for wider reading.

You and your team should keep an eye on this case for further legal escalation. The Wyoming police are already lax or pussyfooting here.

This is not the era of racial
segregation in the U.S. of the early 1900s to the 1960s. Period.


#Justice

backnbeta:

Yeah, that was why I put the "probable cause" for arrest in quote! The chances of him being arrested as a white man over a black woman in an almost all-white environment are very slim

1stGenAmerican:


I wish but these Kenyans are obviously White-washed and don’t want to rock the boat which might be the reason this was unknown until now. She’s been missing quite a while. They should’ve reached out to black people in America for help but as you read, these guys are depending on White people to help get justice against a white man for a black woman. Sometimes, this type will not hesitate to say they don’t want your help because they don’t want white people to think they’re troublemakers like American blacks.