In a statement to the media on February 12, 2007, the police commissioner named Matheri Public Enemy number one. His images were splattered on TV and the police website, and as Wambui claims, this was the most terrible time in her life.

He would periodically bring home an AK 47 weapon by this point. According to Wambui, she begged him to turn himself in to the police but he refused.

More than 100 police officers, including special agents, surrounded the home of Matheri’s wife and her neighbors on February 20, 2007.

Matheri, who was inside the home together with his bodyguard and co-defendant Elias Gathumbi Osama, were told to surrender by placing their hands over their heads and leaving the property.

He was afraid the cops would kill him rather than arrest him, therefore he did not want to leave. Yet, in order to protect her and their six children, his wife asked him to give up. She also cautioned him that the police would fire the house like they had threatened to do if he did not surrender.

The couple fled the house with their hands over their heads after listening to his wife’s appeal and complying with the police’s request to surrender.

His wife, as well as her neighbors, heard gunshots after leaving the house. The media showed up a little while afterwards. A gunman had shot and killed the Most Wanted criminal.

Hence, not only for Wambui but also for the rest of his family, it was a bitter relief when Matheri was killed.

Wambui returned to Matheri’s house in Gachie after her husband’s passing, but she was unable to find calm. The locals were wary of her, and the in-laws were interested in the “home items” Matheri had abandoned.

She had seen eight family homes burn during her previous stay at the ranch, and the idea of the same individuals returning for her never left her mind