Bodies from Kware dump site had no bullet wounds; Chief Pathologist reveals

By Catherine Muema On Jul 18, 2024

By Antynet Ford

Not any of the bodies recovered from the Kware dump site, Mukuru Kwa Njenga slums had a bullet wound, Chief government pathologist Johansen Odour has revealed.

Odour said after an external examination of the bodies yesterday at the Nairobi Funeral home.

Her said that one among the bodies recovered had head injuries while another was strangulated.

The pathologist said that among the nine body bags, the contents of four of them were limbs, lower limbs, which were amputated from the knees downwards, and there were two right legs and two left legs.

“There was also a whole body of a female who we examined and we found that she had a head injury.” Odour said.

Oduor said most of the bodies retreived from Kware dump site have various levels of decomposition from mild to severe adding that it would be difficult to assign a cause of death for those severely decomposed.

“For bodies which are severely decomposed, it becomes very difficult to assign a cause of death because there’s what is called post-mortem artefacts where so many tissues are lost because of decomposition.” The chief pathologist stated.

So far 13 bodies have been recovered from the site amid an ongoing search.

Three other bodies were also recovered amongst them were part of human bodies, female, which were from the waist to the knee.

“There was an upper trunk from the waist upward, which we assigned the cause of death as strangulation. So this brings them down to a total of nine,” the pathologist said.

The bodies had been sawed off from the waist with Oduor saying they could have happened after death.

One of the female bodies was intact and not decomposed and the examination revealed that she had head injuries.

Another body, which was only the upper trunk, was mildly decomposed but clear marks of ligature could be seen on the neck, an indication that the deceased had been strangulated.

The X-rays of the head and other body parts have been submitted to radiologists for analysis, he said.

This means the process may take longer.

Police are still investigating the murder of the woman.

A blood-stained hammer, a pair of pliers, two kitchen knives, four pairs of women’s shoes and a gunny bag are among the items police recovered from the house of a suspected serial killer linked to the murder of 42 women in Kware, Nairobi.

Detectives revisited the house belonging to Collins Jumaisi Khalusha a suspected serial killer Wednesday, July 17 as part of the probe into the killings.

The team also recovered a dressing mirror with fingerprints, a mattress, a blood-stained pillow and a red t-shirt.

The team was accompanied by the suspect when they visited the scene Wednesday morning and spent five hours there.

They also recovered a sisal and manila ropes and a notebook with hospital receipts with the name of a woman.

A team was sent to the hospital to confirm if the woman was attended to there.

Khalusha is the prime suspect in the macabre murder of at least 42 women in the city and claims he met all of them on the streets.