Screams were heard coming from a Sydenham home days before an elderly woman was found dead on Saturday morning in an incident police are treating as suspicious.

Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the woman's death after her body was discovered at her Marlborough Way home just before 10am.

The house where the woman's body was found. Credit:Chris Hopkins

Neighbours told Nine News that they heard loud screams on Thursday morning. The neighbours, who did not want to be named, said the woman was a widow in her 80s who lived alone.

They said she had been burgled a few weeks ago and that there had been several recent burglaries in the area.