A naked mid-aged woman was found dead near Taidy's club in Nakuru town on Wednesday morning.
Passersby stumbled upon her bloodied corpse with head and private parts injuries and residents believe she was murdered on Tuesday night.
Police say the lady was possibly raped and brutalised before being dumped off Oginga Odinga Street.
Her body is now at a Nakuru mortuary, awaiting identification and postmortem examination.
Some residents claimed the deceased was a victim of a ritual or cult but Nakuru police boss Bernard Kioko said she could be a victim of an affair gone sour or even a love triangle.
“The culprits are still at large we have launched investigations,” the OCPD said.
“Our officers are alert and conducting day and night patrols,” he added.
Incidents of unresolved murders are becoming commonplace in parts of Nakuru town, Milo and Naivasha. In the last two months, bodies of five people, including three schoolgirls and two middle-aged men who had been reported missing were found dead with injuries.
Last weekend, a body of a middle-aged man believed to be a bodaboda operator within Nakuru town was found dumped within Rhonda slums.