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Hair retrieved from victim’s hand
Detectives examine Dr. Doobay’s car and the area in front of the physician’s house
– Traces of possible bloodstains found in car, sinks
By Michael Jordan
Traces of possible bloodstains, and strands of hair clutched in the victim’s hand, appear to have brought police a step closer to identifying the individual who killed Mrs. Sharanie Doobay before slipping out of the guarded community without being seen.
Meanwhile, investigators have once again detained a close male relative of the murdered woman, and were up to late yesterday afternoon questioning her husband, Dr. Ramsundar Doobay, at the Brickdam Police Station.
The relative was detained on the day of the murder but was subsequently released.
The most recent developments took shape late Wednesday evening, after crime scene investigators found what appeared to be traces of blood in the front seat of a car near the house where the killing occurred.
A source explained that the stains in the vehicle ‘reacted’ when sprayed with the chemical luminol, which causes bloodstains to give off a blue glow in the dark.
But investigators will have to conduct further tests to confirm whether the stains are indeed blood and if they came from the victim.
The vehicle from which the evidence was taken is being kept under police guard.
Kaieteur News was told that the detectives also found possible traces of blood in the Doobays’ kitchen sink and also in a bedroom sink.
Sources said that this appears to indicate that the killer(s) washed off bloodstains before leaving the scene.
A police official disclosed that investigators also took water samples from the sinks’ drain-pipes in the hope of detecting traces of blood.
Yesterday, the crime scene investigators returned to Dr. Doobay’s residence, where they conducted similar tests on the physician’s car in his presence before he left for the Brickdam Police Station.
A sibling of Dr. Doobay was also present.
Kaieteur News later observed detectives placing items in evidence bags before entering the house for a third search.
And the slain woman herself may have provided investigators with a vital lead.
A police official confirmed that Mrs. Doobay was still “clutching two balls of hair in her right hand” when detectives examined her body.
One of the fingers on Mrs. Doobay’s left hand was smashed. Police believe that she sustained the injury while trying to ward of the killer’s blows, and that she managed to grab the perpetrator with her right hand.
Dr. Doobay sits in his car after investigators complete their examination of the vehicle
Police officials insist that they found no sign of forced entry to the property.
They strongly suspect that Mrs. Doobay was familiar with her killer and unwittingly let him in.
It has also been suggested that the killer visited the area and left without raising suspicion because he was a frequent visitor to the community. Suggestions are that the killer arrived by car and concealed the weapon and bloody clothing in the vehicle before leaving.
But detectives are still baffled as to what the motive for the killing could be.
Robbery has been ruled out since police found millions in cash on the premises, as well as Dr. Doobay’s firearm and other valuables.
Meanwhile, some police officials said that they were upset that a few Government officials and the physician’s colleagues entered the premises on Tuesday even as investigators were scouring the area for clues.
The body of 58-year-old Sharanie Doobay was found lying in a pool of blood near the kitchen of the two-storey Echilibar Villas, Campbellville residence on Tuesday afternoon.
The victim had been struck at least four times in the head with a blunt instrument.
Police sources said that one of the wounds was to the back of the head, another at the side, and two at the top of the skull.
Investigators believe that the woman was killed about two and a half hours before she was found.
Reports are that Dr Doobay, accompanied by a nephew, arrived home at around 16:30 hours. He called repeatedly for his wife to open the door but got no answer.
He eventually sought assistance from his nephew to remove a few panes from a window on the upper flat, since those in the lower flat were reinforced with metal grills.
The nephew then climbed through the window, and entered the bottom flat, where he made the gruesome discovery.
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