Six Ways to Tell If You're Staying in a Murder Hotel

[likethebeer]

For example, "Half the online reviews are left by people with names like 'The Night Stalker'.”

http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/02/21/elisa_lam_cecil_hotel_six_ways_to_tell_if_you_re_staying_in_a_murder_hotel.html

Comments

[beachdog.livejournal.com]

LOL - good tips

good tips

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Yes. I stayed at a hotel in Cincinnati in which I met a prostitute. Fortunately there were good locks on the doors. And it looked like a nice place.

[immemor.livejournal.com]

As I was reading this I thought, “Another sign, Sid and Nancy are your neighbors.” But they caught up with me two sentences later.

How about: The clerk keeps saying, “Mother will be so happy you’re here.”
The key only works for getting into the room.
There’s an extra charge if you want to stay in the “Dahmer Room.”
It’s not like that fun dungeon you went to in college.
The artworks on the walls are John Gacy clown paintings.
If you can check out any time you like but you can never leave.

Ha, it made me think of your meme – I’m a character in a novel… by Charles Bukowski.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I worked with a woman who went on her honeymoon during a snowstorm & ended up getting off the highway & staying with her husband in the last place they could get. The only room was one where the window was smashed. Which was bad enough, but they should have checked the bathroom, since it had all the blood stains.

[immemor.livejournal.com]

I’d be willing to sacrifice romance for a great story. I can recreate a romantic mood any ole day of the week – but murder hotel honeymoon, that’s a once in a lifetime opportunity. (Perhaps this attitude is why I’m still single?)

Murder hotel honeymoon

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it was worth it, but damn - she had the attention of *everyone* telling that story.

Re: Murder hotel honeymoon

[immemor.livejournal.com]

Sorry, this kind of stuff stimulates my inner Quentin Taratino. I’ll stop before I frighten you away like a little bunny.

Re: Murder hotel honeymoon

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I'm the one who started it all. I don't think I want to read things in detail, though.

Poor Fred, man (Winifred) - I don't think she knew that telling the story was gonna draw all of us the way it did (a part of her probably did, but once she started, she had a bunch of wide-eyed kids asking her questions).