THE TWO suspects who were in police custody assisting investigators to determine the circumstances under which a 65-year-old woman was found murdered in her Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara (WCD) home on Monday last have been released.A senior police officer confirmed that an extension of the 72-hour detention period had not been sought because police questioning of the suspects had been completed.

The dead woman, believed to be mentally ill, has been identified as Bibi Keneiz of Ball Field Street, Cornelia Ida, WCD. The mother of three was found in a hammock with almost a dozen stab wounds about her body.

Investigators are working on the theory that the woman, who had lived in a shack, may have been raped before she was stabbed to death; because, when discovered, she was not wearing any underwear and her skirt was pulled up to her chest. Her body was discovered by her son, who had visited the shack to drop off food.

Residents have said that Keneiz had last been seen bathing at the seawall on Sunday, after which she had gone into her home.