Detectives have appealed to the husband of slain Ohangla dancer Sheila Odoyo alias Sheila Wegesha to surrender.
The detectives handling the murder said Jackson Bambo, 45, is wanted over the murder of Sheila in her house in Athi River on Thursday morning. He is a person of interest in the case, police said.
The appeal came after police recovered a car that Bambo was using after her murder in Athi River, Machakos county.
“Let him surrender for questioning. Maybe he is not the one who killed her. He is a person of interest in this case,” said an officer aware of the probe.
The vehicle he used when he left his house on Thursday, a Mitsubishi Outlander, was found abandoned around the Kencom area within the Nairobi CBD, police said.
Police believe the suspect may have switched vehicles before disappearing. His last signal was traced to Narok.
He is yet to contact authorities or his family over the saga. The motive of the murder remains unknown.
An autopsy done on her body showed she died of an exsanguination.
Exsanguination is the action or process of draining or losing blood. Pathologist Dr Michieka Michieka conducted a postmortem on the body at Shalom Community Hospital mortuary on Friday.
The family moved the body to a different mortuary.
Police are investigating murder. Bambo left the house without uttering a word to their daughter who was there, police said.
Sheila had her throat slit by the assailant.
It is suspected that Sheila, 38, was killed on Thursday May 9, morning before her body was found in bed hours later in Hill View estate.
Police said her daughter aged 18, stumbled on the body of her mother in bed and raised an alarm.
The body which was discovered at about 1 pm Thursday lay in a caked a pool of blood around it indicating she had died more than four hours earlier. It had a deep cut in the throat, police said.
The couple has been having squabbles for some time, which is believed to have led to the murder.
The daughter said she had prepared lunch for her mother and went to wake her up when she realised she was dead.
Police arrived at the scene and processed it before moving the body to the mortuary.
The couple runs a popular bar in the Umoja area, Nairobi. Sheila is a popular Ohangla dancer. Many mourned her on social media on learning about the death.
