August 1, 2007. Powder Springs, Georgia. After not being heard from for over 30 hours, 46-year old Jane Kuria and her two daughters - 19-year old Isabella and 16-year old Annabelle - are found bludgeoned to death inside their home. Jane’s eight-year old son, Jeremy, and her eleven-year old nephew, P.K. Thande, are also severely beaten and left comatose, but while they wind up surviving their injuries, they are unable to provide much information about who attacked them. Since the Kurias originally hailed from Kenya and had been seeking asylum in the United States, investigators explore a number of different scenarios, including the possibility of some family friends being responsible for the murders, but the case is never solved. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a horrific and baffling crime known as the Kuria family murders. 

If you have any information about this case, please contact the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office Cold Case Unit Tip-Line at (770) 528-3032.

Additional Reading:

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Kuria_Family

https://unsolved.com/podcasts/the-kuria-family-murders/

https://unsolved.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/108-The-Kuria-Family-Murders-Web-Final.pdf

https://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/archive/police-question-survivor-of-attack-that-killed-3-in-georgia-home/article_aa17ad8f-fd8d-5827-b222-886708c23c60.html

https://www.wave3.com/story/6875529/police-searching-for-suspect-in-attack-that-killed-3-in-georgia-home/

https://mshale.com/2007/09/06/detectives-progress-on-murders-of-kenyan-mother-daughters/

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/us/02attack.html

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/investigations/gone-cold/gone-cold-a-family-massacred-a-case-left-cold/85-511736512

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/powder-springs-community-rallies-around-teen

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The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.

All music is composed by Vince Nitro.