MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Pa. (KYW Newsradio) — The 37-year-old estranged husband of a Wyndmoor woman who was found dead in her home on Wednesday morning has been charged with her murder.
Elizabeth Shea, 57, was found dead on the floor of her bedroom in her home on Cromwell Road in Wyndmoor with what police describe as obvious cut wounds to her head and neck.
Kenneth Shea was already facing assault, strangulation and unlawful restraint charges for an incident in January involving his wife. She got a protection from abuse order against him, and police say that PFA was served on March 15, the couple’s first wedding anniversary.
Kenneth Shea was removed from the home on Cromwell Road in Wyndmoor and was staying in a hotel in Bucks County.
In addition to the previous charges, Shea is now charged with first-degree murder and burglary.
That criminal complaint says around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday — about seven hours before the body was found — Kenneth Shea took an Uber from the Feasterville-Trevose Comfort Inn to Elizabeth Shea’s home in Wyndmoor. He took an Uber back to the hotel around 3:30 a.m., and the criminal complaint says blood was found in the room where he’d been staying.
Investigators think Shea pushed in a window air conditioner to break into the home.