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So you never miss a mystery. This is Crime House.

A woman with a fake name, a young man trapped in a dark room,

two guests who checked into hotels and never made it out alive.

Hotels hold secrets. Behind every closed door, there's a story no one else gets to see. Most of the

time those stories end when the guest checks out. But sometimes they don't end at all. In 1892, a woman

arrived at one of California's most luxurious hotels. She was alone, had no luggage, and checked in under a name that wasn't hers.

Five days later, she was found dead on a staircase leading down to the beach, a pistol by her

side.

The authorities called it a suicide, but the evidence told a very different story.

Over 40 years later, on the other side of the country, a young man checked into another

hotel under a fake name.

He sat in the dark with the door unlocked like he was waiting for someone.

Days later, he was found beaten, stabbed, and strangled in his room.

Somehow he was still alive, but even then, he refused to say who did this to him.

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