It was July 24, 1996, and Lynn was traveling for work.

Her brother, Dennis, had tagged along with her, and now they were out on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California,

heading toward a local convenience store to buy something that you normally need while you're at home,

not at some hotel.

There they were.

They were on a search for air fresheners.

Lynn owned a company involved in travel.

She was well aware of the hotel room scene and had her share of different experiences in many places.

But this time, they had already requested a room change, and this new room had a strange smell.

They had politely told this to the hotel staff, and they came in, apologized, and sprayed down the room.

Still, they didn't want to request another room change.

They figured they'd just suck it up and be good hotel guests.

They did manage to find the air fresheners, however.

Neither of them could have imagined what was really going on,

and why her brother kept smelling something he described as kimchi or fermented

cabbage and radish.

It was until they received a phone call the following Sunday, when they were back in Hawaii,

that explained the unpleasant smell and something much more sinister.

The police informed them that a woman in her twenties had been in that same room before

Lynn and her brother arrived, except the young woman had not left.

In fact, her body had been stuffed inside of the wooden platform of one of the beds, the one her brother had

slept in.

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