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On a cold November evening in 2011, the stillness of a motel in Utica, N.Y., is shattered by a crime; police responding to a call at The Davis Motel uncover the lifeless body of the owner with a belt tied around her neck; what follows is the unmasking of a predator whose past is as haunting as the crime itself.

Murder at the Motel

Davis Motel

On July 7, 2017, cleaning staff at America's Best Value Inn in Michigan discovered a horrifying scene: 43-year-old Christina Daughenbaugh's body, wrapped in bedsheets, surrounded by blood with a knife lying nearby.

America's Best Value Inn

On April 9, 2021, Tina Strader, a housekeeping manager at the Rodeway Inn in Venice, Florida, stopped replying to her regular check-in texts to her husband; worried, he traced her last message to Room 205, where he discovered her body hidden in a closet-viciously beaten, with a towel forced down her throat; using surveillance footage, investigators worked to identify her killer and bring him to justice.

Rodeway Inn

On April 23, 2018, the battered body of Aileen Seiden is discovered off a highway on Florida's Forgotten Coast; investigators trace the crime to Room 15 of the Sportsman's Lodge Motel, where blood evidence reveals a violent struggle.

Sportsmans Lodge

On May 15, 2016, Bensalem police and firefighters were called to the Lincoln Inn Motel, where a room was engulfed in flames; as crews battled the blaze, they made a horrifying discovery, a body burned beyond recognition lying in the wreckage.

Lincoln Motel

In 2015, Abigail "Abby" Cozad was found dead in a Colorado motel room; years earlier, Abby had suffered a traumatic brain injury in a drunk-driving crash, leaving her vulnerable and overly trusting.

Primrose Motel

Late on the night of March 19, 2017, police respond to a call from a witness who hears a gunshot at the Surf Motel on Auburn Boulevard in Sacramento, California; at the motel, they find the body of 53-year-old Leonora Montoya.

Surf Motel

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