A shopping receipt from a leading supermarket helped uncover the identity of a woman who had been murdered and her body boiled before being dumped at the Langata cemetery.
The victim, Deka Abdinoor Gorone had left her California estate to the Lavington area where her killer Hashim Dagane Muhumed was waiting at a short-stay room.
After checking in, she went to a nearby supermarket for some shopping and paid using her mobile phone.
She picked up a receipt and put it in her pocket before leaving as captured on CCTV cameras there.
Police say the believe her bones were the ones found dumped on October 31 at the entrance of Lang'ata cemetery.
Detectives who visited the scene noted that some of the bones appeared freshly boiled, with parts of the flesh meticulously removed.
They believe the killer used a chemical in the mission.
The motive is yet to come out clearly, for now, the investigators said.
At the scene, the police recovered a receipt the woman had been issued with at the supermarket.
Her body and some few items had been wrapped in a black paper bag and dumped there.
The receipt later proved crucial as it contained crucial details that helped police identify the woman.
The receipt included the supermarket's name, time of purchase, and payment method, indicating payment via M-Pesa, the mobile number used and other details.
Police visited the supermarket in Nairobi's central business district and were able to retrieve crucial data on the customer who transacted it.
They then traced the mobile phone number used to pay at the supermarket, registered under the name Deka Abdinoor Gorone.
Earlier on, a missing person's report had been filed on October 24 at California Police Station.
The woman’s family identified her as Deka Abdinoor Gorone and confirmed that the woman in the CCTV footage was their missing relative.
Police say an analysis of the woman's mobile phone records revealed frequent communication with another phone number registered in the name of Hashim Dagane Muhumed, the prime suspect in the murders of a mother, her daughter, and her 12-year-old niece in Eastleigh, Nairobi.
The team then traced her last movements to an apartment in Lavington where she is said to have spent time with Hashim.
On Thursday, the team recovered the woman’s shoes, handbag and other valuables in the Kilimani area.
They also recovered a panga believed to have been used in the murder.
The team is now interrogating Hashim to establish his motive and where he may have dumped the woman’s mobile phone and other valuables.
This is after her family said the deceased woman’s mobile phone called them on the day the bones were discovered in the Langata area.
The detectives have established that the lady was in the company of Hashim, who was residing in the said apartment where the duo spent time.
Hashim was on October 31
captured leaving the apartment carrying two bags suspected to have contained
the remains of the victim that were later in the day discovered at Langata
cemetery.
It has also been verified that after Hashim left
the apartment, the owner discovered what had happened in his premises, went
ahead and cleared the mess, had the rooms re-painted and thereafter went under.
He is being sought, and it is just a matter of
time before he is smoked out of his hideout to face relevant charges, police
said.
Hashim
was arrested Sunday in Eastleigh, Nairobi after almost two weeks of hide and
seek.
Police said he had been hiding in Eastleigh and Lavington
for weeks even as detectives extended his search to Somalia and Ethiopia.
Even after he was linked to the murder of the
three members of the same family, he chose to hide in Eastleigh as a hunt on him
went on.
He could leave his hideout and take a walk before returning, police said.
But an informer who was aware of his being in
the area informed police of the same days ago and a hunt on him intensified.
On Saturday, November 2, CCTV footage captured
him walking out of a building in Eastleigh, where he was a regular while
staking for taxi customers.
An extensive manhunt was launched, with
investigators monitoring his movements through forensic trails.
Despite his attempts to elude capture, including
using multiple phone numbers to mislead the authorities, he was cornered on
Sunday in the area.
He surrendered from a building he was hiding on
realizing police were outside looking for him, police said.
Authorities discovered that Hashim possessed
several fake documents, including a Kenyan ID.
Investigators have established that he
previously served as a regional police officer in Ethiopia before relocating to
Kenya, where he worked as a driver in various schools in Eastleigh.
Hashim was wanted for grilling over the murder
of Amina Abdirashid, her aunt, Waris Dahabo Daud, and her niece, Nusayba Abdi
Mohammed from Eastleigh in Nairobi.
