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The exercise was conducted at the City Mortuary where the body parts are preserved.
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Officials said the body parts are in bad shape as some were decomposing and hence getting finer details on how the victims died may be difficult.
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The autopsy on the bodies recovered from a dumpsite in Kware, Mukuru slums was postponed to Wednesday over among others the planned protests in the city.
Pathologists managed to conduct an autopsy on one of the two bodies that have been identified so far.
The exercise was conducted at the City Mortuary where the body parts are preserved.
Officials said the body parts are in bad shape as some were decomposing and hence getting finer details on how the victims died may be difficult.
The team managed to conduct a postmortem on one body and started on parts of a second one on Monday.
The families of those missing and who were at the mortuary to identify the bodies were asked to visit the Directorate of Criminal Investigations for further profiling to enable the identification process.
This came as the prime suspect in the murder continued to record his confession.
Directorate of Criminal Investigations Director Mohamed Amin confirmed on Monday that the suspect revealed he killed 42 women between 2022 and July 11, 2024, when he murdered his last victim.
Amin said that the suspect's first victim was his wife whom he strangled to death, and dismembered before dumping her remains in the dumpsite.
This was after they disagreed on how she ran down businesses he had opened for her.
"Upon interrogation, the suspect confessed to having lured, killed and disposed of 42 female bodies at the dumpsite all murdered between 2022 and as recent as July 11, 2024," said Amin.
"The suspect alleged that his first victim was his wife Imelda Judith Khalenya whom he strangled to death before dismembering her body and disposing of it at the same site. From the interrogation, all his victims have been murdered in the same style."
A woman said to be the mother-in-law of the suspected serial killer said her daughter went silent in 2022.
The woman said her daughter, alleged to have been married to the victim, used to chat with others via WhatsApp before 2022.
"Wakati ilifika 2022, account yake ikanyamaza (Come 2022, her account went silent)," she said.
Speaking to the media, the mother said since then, she has not heard from her daughter.
"Ndio nimesikia leo ripoti ati aliuwawa (I've received a report today that she was killed)," she added.
"When I heard of her death, the pain was incomparable to her wrongs. She is still my dear child," she said.
The suspect was arrested Monday morning in Kayole after officers from the DCI and the National Police Service conducted a joint operation.
"He was arrested outside a club where he had gone to watch the Euro 2024 football finals," DCI boss Amin said.
"His arrest followed thorough forensic analysis of a mobile phone belonging to one of the victims where some mobile money transactions were made when she went missing."
Shortly after his arrest, he led officers to his single-room house in Kware ares, about 500 meters from the dumpsite, where several crucial items were recovered upon search.
"A search led to the recovery of 24 Airtel SIM card holders, 8 smartphones, a laptop, a hard drive, two flash drives, a machete believed to be used to dismember the victims, 12 nylon sacks similar to the ones used in stuffing the bodies, a pair of industrial rubber gloves, six ID cards for men and two for women," said Amin.
"Other items included one pink female handbag, two female panties, five rolls of cannabis, four huge clear cello tapes some of which were recovered at the scene, a reflector jacket, two title deeds, two notebooks and assorted documents."
The suspect's house and dumping site will remain active crime scenes as police officers continue probing the incident.
Police say they are still trying to establish how and where he killed the victims and managed to deliver the bodies to the dump site.
"From the look of things it is crystalizing that we are dealing with a psychopathic serial killer who has no respect for human life," Amin noted.
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.