Kashoggi Murder: Cremation?

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Vatan Newspaper, 29 October 2018)


Chimney, upper left, was used despite the warm 
weather.

In the aftermath of the murder of Jamal Kashoggi at the
Saudi Arabian Consulate-General in Istanbul on 2 October,
a remaining mystery is the whereabouts of Kashoggi's
body, despite Saudi claims that the body was given over
to a Turkish collaborator.

Once Turkish investigators were allowed to enter the
Consulate building and the Consul General's residence,
the idea that Kashoggi had been killed in the office of
Consul General Uteybi gained currency.  However, no
fingerprints were found in Uteybi's office and there was
evidence that the room had been wiped clean by a
forensics expert.

Video footage showed 6 vehicles moving from the
Consulate building to the residence at 15:10 on 2 October.
Police believe that Kashoggi's body was transported to
the residence in a Mercedes VITO minibus that was
part of the 6-vehicle convoy. 

When the body was still not found in the residence,
police searched a well on the property but without
result.  However, they also noticed that the fireplace was
sooty, having been used recently, despite the warm
Istanbul weather.  Police saw, as well, that the fireplace
had been thoroughly cleaned, which raised their
suspicions further.  Consequently, samples were taken
from the fireplace and its chimney and sent to the police
criminal laboratory for analysis.

Cremation

In the process of cremation, a body is completely burned
in a fire in 1-2 hours.  The body of a  50-kilogram person
contains 2.5 kilograms of bones, 40 kilograms of water
and 7.5kilogramsm of organic material that can be burned.
The temperature required to burn the body is 850 degrees
centigrade. When the temperature is raised to 1,090
degrees the body fuels its own destruction.  With an
oxygen supply, the temperature can be brought to 3,000
degrees.  After the fire, the bones' powder mixes in with
the ashes.

iPhone

Kashoggi gave his Apple iPhone telephone to his fiancé
Hatice Cengiz before he entered the Consulate building.
The phone is being examined by Istanbul police but
because the password was incorrectly entered the phone
is locked and only Apple in the USA can open the phone
now.

 
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