An Ohio man has been sentenced to 39 years to life in prison for the brutal murder of his girlfriend, Susan Ramberg, 46, and the abuse of her 10-year-old son, who was forced to help conceal her body in a garage for weeks. Kandawaswika Kahari, 22, pleaded guilty in December to aggravated murder, felonious assault, and gross abuse of a corpse.
The horrific crime unfolded in February 2023 at Ramberg’s Reynoldsburg home. According to prosecutors, Kahari and Ramberg argued in the garage, where he punched and choked her until she lost consciousness. He also struck her son with a shovel, knocking the boy unconscious. Ramberg initially survived the attack, and Kahari helped her inside to a couch, where he later choked her to death, told WTRF.
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Kahari then forced the traumatized boy to help carry his mother’s body to her car in the garage, falsely claiming he would take her to the hospital. Instead, her body remained in the vehicle for three weeks, while the child endured further abuse at the hands of Kahari.
In court, the boy’s family described the unimaginable trauma he suffered. “He should never have to hug his dead mother, put her in the car with her murderer. He should never have to play dead while laying in his own blood so his mother’s murderer will stop kicking him,” relatives said. “He should never have been left alone in a house for three weeks where he knows his mother’s body is in the garage…and yet that is what my nephew endured.”
Police discovered the boy alone in the home and Ramberg’s decomposing body in the garage during a wellness check requested by her father. The child revealed that he and Kahari had “made a bed” for Ramberg in the car trunk and that Kahari had checked on him several times after the murder.
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The judge presiding over the case called it “one of the most horrific murders” she had ever encountered. An obituary for Ramberg remembered her as a “devoted mother” who was “kind, caring, empathetic.” Kahari’s sentencing brings a measure of justice for Ramberg’s family, but the emotional scars left on her son will remain. The case has shocked the community, highlighting the devastating impact of domestic violence and child abuse.
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