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None of the bodies recovered from the Kware dump site in Mukuru slums had injuries that could be attributed to a bullet, either externally or through the examination of the bodies, according to Chief Government Pathologist Dr. Johansen Oduor.
Dr. Oduor reported on Wednesday that one of the bodies had head injuries while another showed signs of strangulation.
So far, 13 bodies have been recovered from the site amid an ongoing search. Dr. Oduor explained that among the nine body bags, four contained limbs—specifically lower limbs amputated from the knees downwards, including two right legs and two left legs.
“There was also a whole body of a female who we examined and found had a head injury,” he said.
Additionally, three other bodies, which were parts of human bodies, female, from the waist to the knee were recovered.
“There was an upper trunk from the waist upward, and we assigned the cause of death as strangulation. This brings the total to nine,” Dr. Oduor stated.
He noted that most of the bodies exhibited various levels of decomposition, ranging from mild to severe, making it challenging to determine the cause of death for those severely decomposed.
“For bodies that are severely decomposed, it becomes very difficult to assign a cause of death because of post-mortem artifacts where many tissues are lost due to decomposition,” he explained.
The bodies had been sawed off from the waist, which Dr. Oduor suggested might have happened after death. One female body was intact and not decomposed, revealing head injuries upon examination. Another body, consisting of only the upper trunk, was mildly decomposed but displayed clear ligature marks on the neck, indicating strangulation.
X-rays of the head and other body parts have been submitted to radiologists for further analysis, potentially prolonging the investigation.
Police are continuing to investigate the murder of the woman. Among the items recovered from the house of Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, a suspected serial killer linked to the murder of 42 women in Kware, Nairobi, were a blood-stained hammer, a pair of pliers, two kitchen knives, four pairs of women’s shoes, and a gunny bag. Detectives revisited his house on Wednesday, July 17, as part of the probe.
They also recovered a dressing mirror with fingerprints, a mattress, a blood-stained pillow, and a red t-shirt. Accompanied by the suspect, they spent five hours at the scene.
Additional items recovered included sisal and manila ropes and a notebook with hospital receipts bearing the name of a woman, prompting a team to verify if she had been treated at the hospital.
Khalusha is the prime suspect in the macabre murder of at least 42 women in the city, claiming he met all of them on the streets or while they were selling airtime. He lured them to his house, raped them, and later killed them. Detectives concluded that his house was his primary crime scene after discovering bloodstains on the walls and floor, which he admitted were from some of the victims.
In his confession at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), Khalusha claimed to have killed ten women this year alone, with the latest victim murdered on July 11, a day before the bodies were discovered at the Kware dump site in Mukuru slums, Nairobi. He admitted to strangling his victims, leaving the bodies on nylon paper in his house before dismembering and dumping them at the site about 500 meters from his house, sometimes using the hammer in his gruesome acts.
Born in Vihiga in 1991, Khalusha moved to Migori with his mother three years later after his father’s death. Most of his victims were women from the slum where he also lived, with over 20 women killed in 2023 alone, the highest number. Police are now working to document all the victims amid fears that identification may be complicated, and two more suspects have been arrested in connection with the serial murders.
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