Carolyne Odour has told the BBC she desperately fears for fate of her two young sons who went missing two months ago with their father - a follower of the teachings of a notorious starvation cult leader.
Ms Odour says that amid an ongoing investigation into more deaths linked to the cult she has identified her husband's body at a mortuary in the coastal town of Malindi.
His corpse was found in July in the village of Kwa Binzaro, inland from Malindi and near the remote Shakahola Forest, where more than 400 bodies were found in 2023 in one of the worst ever cases of cult-related mass deaths.
Ms Odour is now awaiting the results of DNA tests being carried out on more than 30 recently unearthed bodies.
I felt pain. I barely recognised him. His body was badly decomposing, Ms Odour, 40, said about her husband Samuel Owino Owoyo.
She believes her sons, 12-year-old Daniel and nine-year-old Elijah, travelled with their 45-year-old father to Kwa Binzaro at the end of June.
Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie is currently on trial over the so-called Shakahola Forest Massacre - and has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter.
He is alleged to have told his followers they would get to heaven more quickly if they stopped eating - and there have been concerns he has been in touch with his followers from jail.
Ms Odour says her husband started listening to the teachings of Mr Mackenzie four or five years ago.
He changed and he didn't want the kids to go to school, she said. When the kids would fall ill he'd say that God would heal them. He really believed those teachings.
Two months ago on 28 June, the situation took a turn for the worse when her husband went off with their two youngest sons.
But Ms Odour started to get suspicious when he did not contact her again.
The last phone call they had was when he told her, 'We have gone, God be with you.' She later learned he was not headed to his parents' village but to the area where many cult followers were linked with suspicious disappearances.
Retracing her husband's steps, she found out they had travelled over 900km east to Kwa Binzaro in Kilifi county.
After her husband’s body was identified in a mortuary, it was revealed he had likely died by strangulation near a house tied to the cult.
Following an investigation, 11 people were arrested, including followers of Mr Mackenzie. The search for more bodies began recently, revealing over 30 corpses in a horrifying exhumation process.
For Ms Odour, every moment of uncertainty regarding her sons intensifies her pain. She longs for their return, haunted by the solitude of their absence.
