Chief government pathologist Dr. Johansen Oduor has revealed that none of the bodies recovered from the Kware dumpsite in Embakasi South had gunshot wounds.
Dr. Oduor, along with a team from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), conducted the postmortem examination on nine female bodies at the City Mortuary on Wednesday.
“Our findings indicated that some bodies had missing lower limbs and other bodies had cuts at the lumbar area (lower back), most of which were dismembered,” Dr. Oduor disclosed.
“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.”
Further examination revealed that some bodies had deep head injuries, suggesting the victims 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 added.
Dr. Oduor emphasized that the challenge now 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.”
Despite initial fears, none of the bodies had gunshot wounds, dispelling concerns that the victims might have been shot during recent anti-government protests.
According to the DCI, 13 female body parts in various stages of decomposition were recovered from the Kware dumpsite between July 11 and July 15, 2024.
The remains are currently at the Nairobi Funeral Home, formerly City Mortuary, and at least two have been identified by their families.
The prime suspect, Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, 33, was apprehended on July 15 after a phone trail led to his capture.
Khalusha initially confessed to killing 42 women since 2022 but later retracted his confession, claiming he was tortured into making it.
Two more suspects, Amos Momanyi and Moses Ogembo, were also arrested.
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