The identity of the deceased man was discovered through a DNA test match with the deceased mother. The man has been identified as Katlego Mpholo who had been missing for over a year according to his family who had last seen him in the beginning of March last year. Katlego Mpholo’s family has rejected the police report that says he collapsed in town and was taken to hospital. His father says a lot of important information is still missing. Mpholo's shattered father, Mpho Mpholo spoke to Newzroom Afrika’s Linda Mnisi and said the family was extremely heartbroken by the news which they received on Friday from police. Mpho Mpholo said: “We never thought that wherever he is that he is no more, we had hoped that we would see him alive, vibrant as he was but after receiving the news on Friday and Saturday... I couldn't sleep”.

An autopsy report showed that Katlego had died due to blunt force trauma to the head and was already dead before the prison caught fire. The late Mpholo's father says there's more to this story, than what they have been told by the police. The family first suspected that something was wrong when Mpholo was no longer visible on social media. Mpholo’s grandmother whom he lived with also revealed that she had not seen him for a little over a month and no one else seemed to know of his whereabouts. “My own analysis of this, it looks like they kidnapped my son long ago, they killed him and kept him for a long time until the body decomposed so certain signs on the body can disappear then they burnt him.This seems like a mastermind plan that was done long before we heard the news,” said the father.