Choose carefully the next time you rent a room

[August]

http://empirenews.net/body-found-und...there-5-years/

Body Found Under Motel Bed, Police Say It Has Been There At Least 5 YearsStunning news this morning out of New Jersey, as reports of police discovering the body of a young woman under a motel bed have been confirmed. The owners of the motel asked that their name and location be omitted from news reports to protect their business

[Buddahaid]

I guess business is slow, very, very slow.....

[August]

Aww rats, never mind. Further investigation has discovered it is a fake news story.

[Jimbuna]

Phew!...that's a relief

[Otto Fuhrmann]

Haha, you would have thought someone would have checked under the bed at least once in five years!

[August]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Phew!...that's a relief

Yeah but apparently it does happen in real life :
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/bodybed.asp

Dead bodies get stashed in the box spring or the bed's pedestal more often than you'd want to believe. What's more, a fair number of them are only discovered days later ... after the new tenant complains about a persistent and disagreeable odor.

In each of the following cases not only were bodies discovered under hotel beds, but it was investigations of the smell of decomposition that led to their discoveries.


On 10 July 2003, a man checked into the Capri Motel, just east of downtown Kansas City, and began complaining about a foul odor in his room. Management told him nothing could be done about the problem, and he spent three nights in his room before checking out because he could no longer stand the smell. When the cleaning staff came in to make up the room on 13 July, they lifted the mattress and underneath found a man's body in an advanced stage of decomposition.

On 10 June 1999 the rapidly decomposing remains of 64-year-old Saul Hernandez were discovered inside the bed in Room 112 at the Burgundy Motor Inn in Atlantic City, New Jersey. A German couple had spent the night sleeping over Hernandez's remains, and it was their complaint to the manager about the smell in their room which led to the discovery of the corpse.

In July 1996 a woman's body was found under a mattress in the Colorado Boulevard Travelodge in Pasadena, CA. Apparently the motel's staff discovered her ten days after her demise and only after guests had complained for several days of a foul odor coming from that room.

There were two stashed-and-smelly body cases in Florida in 1994. (Further adding to the confusability of these stories' taking place in the same year and the same state, in both instances the next tenants those rooms had were German tourists.) In August 1994 in Fort Lauderdale, hotel staff discovered the body of 47-year-old Bryan Gregory tucked under a platform bed. Though the staff had themselves noticed the strange smell for days, they only set about looking for its source after a German couple spent the night in that room and afterwards complained about the odor.

In March 1994 the body of 24-year-old Josefina Martinez was found underneath a bed at the Traveler's Hotel near Miami International Airport. Again, the discovery was prompted by an aggrieved German tourist upset about a foul odor in his room.

In Virginia in 1989, Jerry Lee Dunbar disposed of the remains of two victims this way: 27-year-old Deirdre Smith, who was discovered in May under the floor of a motel room on Route 1, and 29-year-old Marilyn Graham, who turned up in June under a bed in the Alexandria Econo Lodge. In Smith's case, the killer first kept her body partially hidden under his bed for two days, then subsequently placed it in the crawl space under the carpeted floor. Her presence seemingly didn't bother him, because he didn't move out of that room until three or four weeks later. Both girls' bodies were eventually found after other guests complained about the stink.

In Mineola, New York, motel in 1988, a body turned up in a box spring. The remains of 29-year-old Mary Jean DeOliviera were found at the Oceanside Motel. Again, the body was discovered days later and only after other patrons complained about the smell. At least two other guests unknowingly cohabited with the body before
it was found, and at least one guest refused to stay in that room because of the smell.

Here's a change of pace — not a murder, but a death by misadventure. In Rosedale, Maryland in 1987, an unidentified man died of a drug overdose after one of the thirty-four balloons of heroin he'd swallowed burst. His partner stashed the corpse under their motel bed, then split. Three days later, the family the room was next rented to complained about the odor, and this led to the body's discovery.

One of the oldest "smelly body left under the bed" sightings comes from 1982. Richard Kuklinski, Daniel Deppner, and Gary Smith often teamed together to run auto theft scams. Kuklinski and Deppner decided to kill Smith, and they accomplished this by feeding him a cyanide-laced hamburger in a North Bergen, New Jersey, motel room. Kuklinkski finished off Smith by strangling him when watching Smith die of poisoning proved tiresome. Smith's body was stuffed under the bed and left there. It was found four days later, on 27 December 1982. During the intervening four days, the room had been rented to others each night. Guests had wrinkled their noses at the smell, but none thought to look under the bed.

That case has seemingly been topped by one in which Sony Millbrook of Memphis, Tennessee, was reported missing on 27 January 2010 after she failed to pick up her children from school. Forty-seven days later, on 15 March 2010, homicide investigators were called to the room of a Budget Inn motel where Millbrook had been living just prior to her disappearance, her body having just been discovered inside the frame of the bed there — even though the room had reportedly been cleaned and rented several times since her disappearance almost seven weeks earlier.

[Stealhead]

Well I recon that German tourists should be careful when renting rooms.

Strange though if I walked into a room that reeked of death I'd pass on staying in that motel/hotel period.

[vienna]

Originally Posted by Otto Fuhrmann

Haha, you would have thought someone would have checked under the bed at least once in five years!

Well, the report (though actually false) said it was in New Jersey: it seemed plausible since how would you have noticed the stench and do they actually check under beds in that state?...

(Well, one more state I can never set foot in...)


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[Aktungbby]

"we'll leave the light on for Ya" checkin's a febreeze

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by vienna

Well, the report (though actually false) said it was in New Jersey: it seemed plausible since how would you have noticed the stench and do they actually check under beds in that state?...

(Well, one more state I can never set foot in...)


<O>

LOL....if it's that bad, it must be in a right state

[vienna]

New Jersey has earned the reputation of being sort of the dumping ground for New York City; a lot of the landfill material ends up there. The state is also known for lax environmental laws and has suffered in the past from industrial pollution, both in the air and water. And let us not for get about all the reputed Mafia hit victims reputed to have been disposed of in New Jersey...

I think almost all major cities have a nearby city or town they regard as a dumping ground or as less than "civilized". Growing up in San Francisco, we used to put down the city of Oakland, across the San Francisco Bay from us. I now live in Los Angeles and the effect is the opposite: no one here really wants to admit they are from Los Angeles; they tend to refer to themselves as being from an neighborhood or area of the city rather than the city itself ("I'm from Hollywood/The Valley/the Westside, etc.)...

Are there any other cities in Europe or elsewhere that "dump", either literally or figuratively, on a nearby neighboring city?...


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[Stealhead]

I it think is common all over. While stationed in Germany there was a ratty town called "Mesau" it was kind of dumping grounds of the region.

London has Eastend boys and Westend girls right.

[Armistead]

Some years ago, on a whim, my wife and headed off to the mountains during peak weekend. We decided to stay the night, but couldn't find a room. Finally we found one of those old 40's style hotels off the side of the road. It was a dump, but we made the best out of it. It had one of those quarter fed vibrating beds. It was unplugged so I plugged it up and we gave it a try...It dang near rattled our teeth out and was making a terrible noise. Being Mr Fixit, I looked under and grabbed a metal frame and ZAP...like sticking a finger in a socket.....We then figured all the metal frame , head board, etc., had a charge going through it, some places worse than others...We got to stay free, should of sued them.....The clerk told me the beds were no longer in use....right!

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Armistead

It was a dump, ...those quarter fed vibrating beds. .... so I plugged it up and we gave it a try...It dang near rattled our teeth out.....and ZAP...like sticking a finger in a socket..... a charge .... We got to stay free....right!

"...And the earth shook!"-Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by vienna

...no one here really wants to admit they are from Los Angeles; they tend to refer to themselves as being from an neighborhood or area of the city rather than the city itself ("I'm from Hollywood/The Valley/the Westside, etc.)...

I've always told people I grew up in Redondo Beach. Of course when I have to explain exactly where that is, the whole sordid truth comes out.