No bullet injuries on Kware dumpsite bodies, Gov't pathologist gives postmortem findings

Dr. Oduor, in collaboration with a team from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), finalised the postmortem exercise on nine female bodies at the City Mortuary on Wednesday.

He said that their findings revealed that some bodies had missing lower limbs and other bodies had cuts at the lumbar area (lower back), most of which were dismembered. 

"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," he said. 

"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."

He further intimated that some bodies had deep head injuries and the persons were believed to have died from severe bleeding.

"There was also a whole body of a female who we examined and we found that she had head injuries."

Dr. Oduor stated that the bulk of the work lies in correctly identifying the dismembered parts, assembling them and establishing the cause of death.

"We are taking samples of DNA for the purpose of reconciling with each piece so that we can know how many bodies we have," he noted. 

"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."

However, no body had any gunshot wounds, allying fears that some of the bodies might have belonged to victims who were shot dead during the anti-government protests which commenced a month ago.

According to the DCI, 13 female body parts which are severely dismembered and at different stages of decomposition have been recovered from the Kware dump site between July 11 and July 15, 2024.

The body parts are the Nairobi Funeral Home, formerly City Mortuary, where at least two of them have since been identified by their families.

The prime suspect behind the killings Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, 33, was apprehended on July 15 after the DCI said that a phone trail led to his capture.

DCI claimed that Khalusha confessed to having killed 42 women since 2022 but a shocking turn of events later surfaced after he told the court that he was tortured into confessing. 

Two more suspects Amos Momanyi and Moses Ogembo were later arrested. Momanyi was found in possession of a mobile phone and two Safaricom SIM cards belonging to one of the victims, Roselyn Akoth Ogongo.

Ogembo is said to have sold the cellular device to Momanyi.

The court on Wednesday granted the DCI a request to detain the two for 28 days to allow them to conclude investigations into the matter.