Body Found Under Hotel Bed Five Weeks Later

[Tomspy77]

Body found under hotel bed

The body of a missing mother was discovered under a Memphis hotel bed which had been rented out five times since she was last seen in the room six weeks earlier, US police said on Wednesday.

The body was discovered on Monday "after a bad odour was reported in the room" according to a police press release posted online by WCMTV news.

"The room had been rented approximately five times and cleaned by the hotel staff numerous times" since she was reported missing on January 27, the statement said.

The bed's mattress and box spring are encased by a metal frame which sits directly on the floor, police said. The release did not specify exactly where in the bed the body was found.

A spokeswoman for the Memphis, Tennessee police department did not immediately return a request for comment.

Sony Millbrook was reported missing on January 27 after she failed to pick her children up from school.

Her family told police that they had checked the hotel where she had been living and Millbrook wasn't there.

A hotel employee told police that Millbrook had been seen about 7am and that while she had been locked out of the room for failing to pay, her belongings were still inside the apartment.

The case was transferred from missing persons to the homicide department a week later and detectives interviewed two clerks and a security guard at the hotel, the press release said. It did not indicate whether police examined the hotel room.

Millbrook's boyfriend was subsequently arrested on a gun violation and "remains a person of interest in this case", police said.
www.smh.com.au/world/body-found-under-hotel-bed-20100318-qg5f.html

[sherlew (Ret)]

This happens way too often. Those who clean hotel rooms ought to at least peek under the bed every time they clean a room. It wouldn't take much, just a minute or two and a flash light.

My heart goes out to her kids and her friends and family.

[pickinduck]

That reminds me of one time when I was in the navy. Me and 2 other friends stayed a night at a hotel in Saint Augustine and the room had a smell that I had to investigate and it was a dirty diaper under the bed. And you know it was left there on purpose and the cleaning person did nothing about it. That's how things are and that's how people are

[sherlew (Ret)]

That's pretty yucky, and I'm sure things like that happen more often than someone finding a dead body.