Male DNA found on Charloe Musu’s remains
--Defense Pathologist testifies
Defense lawyers’ Pathologist Dr. Matthias I. Okoye has found male DNA in the middle left-hand fingernail of deceased Charloe Musu.
The death of Charloe Musu has led to her family members, including her mother and Liberia’s former Chief Justice Cllr. Gloria Musu Scott to face prosecution.
Their trial comes after sanctioned Monrovia Mayor and ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) secretary general Jefferson Koijee denied ordering the brutal attack in which Charloe was murdered.
Liberia’s former Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) boss Cllr. Jerome Verdier has accused Koijee of allegedly ordering Monrovia City Police official Varlee Telleh to carry out the attack.
Both Koijee and Telleh have denied the allegation that they were responsible for the attack at Cllr. Scott’s Brewerville residence.
Cllr. Scott said she had reported to police authorities two incidents of attacks at her home, but no action was taken before the third incident led to Charloe’s murder.
However, Cllr. Scott and three of her family members were instead indicted by Liberian prosecutors for Charloe’s murder.
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Cllr. Scott and Gertrude Newton, Alice Johnson, and Rebecca Youdeh Wisner have pleaded not guilty to the indictment.
Dr. Matthias I. Okoye of the Nebraska Institute of Institute of Forensic Sciences, Lincoln USA, is a Forensic Pathologist, Scientist Pathologist, Clinical Pathologist, and an Attorney.
On the witness stand Tuesday, 12 December 2023, Dr. Okoye said the late Charloe Musu died of blunt force trauma as a result of multiple stabbing wounds.
He testified that the stabbings were caused by an instrument which is not a knife.
The witness testified that the stabbings were caused/done by a muscular male.
He noted that none of the defendants could cause these wounds.
Dr. Okoye detailed that there was a foreign DNA of a male found in the middle fingernail of the left hand of the victim.
He said all DNA profiles from the victim exclude all the defendants in the case.
Dr. Okoye is a member of the American Board of Medicine and has conducted over twenty thousand autopsies in the USA and Africa including four in Liberia (Angel Togba).
He is also a lawyer and has practiced and taught Medicine for over 42 years.
