Chief government pathologist Dr. Johansen Oduor has reported that none of the bodies found at the Kware dumpsite in Embakasi South had gunshot wounds.

Working with a team from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), Dr. Oduor completed the postmortem examinations on nine female bodies at the City Mortuary on Wednesday.

Their investigation revealed that several bodies had missing lower limbs and cuts in the lumbar area, indicating dismemberment.

“Some bodies were missing lower limbs amputated from the knees down, including two right legs and two left legs,” he explained. “We also found three sections from the waist to the knee, and another trunk from the waist up, with the cause of death determined as strangulation.”

He added that some bodies had deep head injuries, likely causing death due to severe bleeding.

“We examined a whole body of a female and found she had head injuries,” Dr. Oduor stated.

He said that the main challenge now is to correctly identify and reassemble the dismembered parts and determine the cause of death for each.

“We are taking DNA samples to match each piece so we can ascertain the number of bodies,” he noted. “Severely decomposed bodies are difficult to analyze because of postmortem artifacts where many tissues are lost due to decomposition.”

Dr. Oduor confirmed that none of the bodies had gunshot wounds, dispelling fears that they might belong to victims shot during recent anti-government protests.

The DCI reported that 13 dismembered female body parts, in various stages of decomposition, were recovered from the Kware dumpsite between July 11 and July 15, 2024. These body parts are 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 arrested on July 15 after a phone trail led to his capture. The DCI claimed Khalusha confessed to killing 42 women since 2022, but he later told the court he was tortured into confessing.

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

The court granted the DCI’s request to detain the two suspects for 28 days to conclude the investigation.