Chief Government Pathologist Dr. Johansen Oduor has disclosed that the bodies recovered from the Kware dumpsite in Embakasi South bore no evidence of gunshot wounds.
This finding comes after an extensive postmortem examination conducted at the City Mortuary on Wednesday, where Dr. Oduor worked alongside a team from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
Grim Discoveries
The autopsy results paint a gruesome picture of the victims’ final moments. Dr. Oduor reported that many of the bodies were dismembered, with some missing lower limbs and others displaying cuts in the lumbar region.
He elaborated on the horrific nature of the findings:
“The contents of some of them were lower limbs which were amputated from the knees downwards and they were two right legs and two left legs. They were from the waist to the knee which were three of them and then there was another trunk from the waist upwards which we assigned cause of death as strangulation.”
Additionally, several bodies exhibited severe head trauma, likely resulting in death from excessive blood loss. Dr. Oduor noted:
“There was also a whole body of a female who we examined and we found that she had head injuries.”
Challenges in Identification and Cause of Death Determination
The pathology team now faces the daunting task of correctly identifying and reassembling the dismembered parts to establish an accurate count of victims and determine their causes of death. Dr. Oduor explained the process:
“We are taking samples of DNA for the purpose of reconciling with each piece so that we can know how many bodies we have. Bodies which are severely decomposed become very difficult to assign the cause of death because there is what we call postmortem artifacts where so many tissues get lost because of decomposition.”
Investigation Timeline and Suspects
The DCI reports indicate that between July 11 and July 15, 2024, they recovered 13 female body parts from the Kware dump site.
These remains, in various stages of decomposition, are currently housed at the Nairobi Funeral Home (formerly City Mortuary), where two have been identified by their families.
The primary suspect, 33-year-old Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, was apprehended on July 15 following a phone trail. While initially confessing to the murders of 42 women since 2022, Khalusha later claimed in court that his confession was coerced through torture.
Two additional suspects, Amos Momanyi and Moses Ogembo, have since been arrested. Momanyi was found with a mobile phone and SIM cards belonging to one of the victims, Roselyn Akoth Ogongo, while Ogembo allegedly sold the device to Momanyi.
The court has granted the DCI’s request to detain these two suspects for 28 days to facilitate the ongoing investigation.
