Two suspects in custody over the murder of a Mlolongo-based hairdresser will be detained for 10 more days to enable police to complete their probe.
The body of the salonist Jane Mwende was recovered from a pit latrine in Mlolongo, Machakos County, on Tuesday.
She had been missing for two weeks, her family and police said.
The suspects Evelyn Wanza Katumbu and Faith Nthemba Kyalo were arraigned on miscellaneous charges at Mavoko Law Courts on Wednesday.
However, another suspect was released.
The detectives handling the matter said they are looking for more suspects.
They will also need time to record statements.
Police received information that Mwende may have vanished as a result of a love triangle, which they are now investigating.
The decomposing body of the 29-year-old was retrieved from a pit latrine where it had been for two weeks.
The suspects who were arrested last week in connection to Mwende's disappearance had earlier misled the detectives to a Magongo forest in Wote, Makueni County.
They later changed the narrative, leading the police to Kiserian in Kajiado before revealing the actual scene where Mwende's body was discovered.
Mwende is said to have received a phone call on August 25, from a person posing as a client in need of her hairdressing services at their home.
She left, never to return, police said.
She also failed to pick up her child from her Yatta home in Machakos after the August holidays.
Family, friends and colleagues of Mwende had been frantically searching for her since she disappeared. They said they had been to police stations, hospitals and even morgues without success.
Machakos County Police Commander Patrick Lobolia said they found the body in a pit latrine.
