- Roseline, who they had looked for days, was among tens brutally murdered and their bodies dismembered.
- Her whole body is however yet to be recovered, as the family only identified the upper part of her body.
The family of Kware victim, Rose Ogongo, on Wednesday positively identified her remains at Nairobi Funeral Home.
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On June 28, 2024, 24-year-old Roseline Akoth went missing in the Kware area of Pipeline where she lived with her sister-in-law Judith Akoth.
It was her third month in Nairobi where she came to look for a job to sustain herself and her three children who she left with her mother at their rural home in Luo Nyanza.
Her disappearance threw the family in panic with several attempts to reach out to her turning futile.
In the early days of her disappearance, her phone went through and was received but shockingly, no one spoke on the receiving end.
A few days later, the phone went off for good.
Weeks later, the discovery of dead bodies at an abandoned quarry in the Kware area, Mukuru Slums in Nairobi made the family set out on a mission to establish whether she could be among them.
Her mother left Benta Awuor Ogongo and left the village on Sunday for the City to help in the identification process.
And on Monday, they confirmed their worst fears.
Roseline, who they had looked for days, was among tens brutally murdered and their bodies dismembered.
Her whole body is however yet to be recovered, as the family only identified the upper part of her body.
The discovery of the body at the City Mortuary meant that they would have to record statements at the DCI headquarters.
Upon arrival, they discovered a handbag belonging to the deceased among the exhibits in DCI possession.
The handbag had a sock that Roseline's inlaw identified as hers.
"There was a pink handbag which Rose left the house with that morning that we found at the DCI," her sister-in-law, Judith Akoth said.
And as fate would have it, another sock that forms a pair to the one found among DCI's exhibit was discovered at the house of the prime suspect Collins Jumaisi Khalusha.
DCI revisited the suspect's house, which is still an active crime scene, on Wednesday during which they recovered items believed to be key in the ongoing probe.
The officers also recovered a sisal and manila ropes and a notebook with hospital receipts bearing the name of a woman.
The team also recovered a blood-stained hammer, a dressing mirror with fingerprints, a mattress, a blood-stained pillow, a red t-shirt, a pair of pliers, two kitchen knives, four pairs of women's shoes and a sack.
Keran Khavere, mother to Alaine Akhaleye who got lost in May 2023, is also among those looking for their kin.
Keran and Alaine lived together at Sinai slum in Embakasi. Alaine worked with a company that exports vegetables at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).
"I have looked at the bodies but I haven't seen any resembling her," she told the media outside City Mortuary.
She said she had given out her DNA and she will await results to see if her daughter is among the recovered body parts.
As of Monday, a total of 10 bodies had been recovered from the dumpsite awaiting postmortem at the Nairobi Funeral Home, formerly City Mortuary.
Families whose loved ones were missing have arrived at the premises to identify their kin from the retrieved bodies.
Police say the suspect targeted women to avenge what they suspect to be a bad ending with his late wife.
“He seems to have acted out of rage and this is linked to the way he killed his wife first,” said Amin.