Police appeal six months after suspected stabbing
Bedfordshire PolicePolice are appealing for anyone who knew a Polish hairdresser to get in touch - six months after she was last seen alive.
Bedfordshire Police said it knew very little about Beata Szauer, 46, who was found dead with suspected stab wounds at her home in Brook Street on 7 January.
The Polish mother-of-two's last known sighting, two weeks before, was captured on CCTV on Sunday 21 December.
Det Ch Insp Sam Khanna said he wanted her "friends or associates to come forward as they may help us build the missing pieces of the puzzle to understand how she came to harm".
Two men aged in their 50s have been released on police bail after being arrested on suspicion of her murder.
Another man, in his 40s, also arrested on suspicion of murder, has since died.
His death is not being treated as suspicious, police confirmed.
Bedfordshire PoliceThe force said a forensic post-mortem examination showed she died as a result of a possible stab wound.
Khanna, from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit, said: "We believe it is likely Beata - who we would describe as a vulnerable person - died two weeks prior to being discovered by a landlord who had not heard from her.
"There are people out there who knew and socialised with Beata, that we have not been able to identify and would be keen to hear from."
He said she worked occasionally as a remote hairdresser.
"We know she frequented the Polski Smak and Sainsbury's stores in Crawley Road.
"Were you ever a hair client of Beata's, or had you seen her in the weeks before she was discovered dead?
"We owe it to Beata and her family to find answers, and to apprehend anyone involved in her death," he added.
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