The family of slain University student Rita Waeni has positively identified a severed head found in Kiambaa dam, Kiambu, on Sunday.
The identification was based on her forehead, hair and teeth formation.
The move gave pathologists led by chief government pathologist Johansen Oduor the green light to conduct an autopsy of the head as part of efforts to establish how she died on January 13 at an apartment in Roysambu, Nairobi.
The exercise was conducted at the City Mortuary following an earlier one that had been done on other body parts.
The family had identified a blouse that had been found wrapped around the head when it was discovered.
Detectives suspect the killing of Waeni was part of an ongoing occultism in the country.
“It looks like a ritual which I think was motivated by a cult-like belief,” said an officer aware of the issue.
The investigation team wants to know if there are more such killings similar to that of Waeni.
The dismembered body of Waeni was found at an apartment on TRM Drive, Kasarani but her head was missing.
The head was later found wrapped in a purple female blouse and then put in a green carrier bag with a stone in it.
