: an establishment which provides lodging and parking and in which the rooms are usually accessible from an outdoor parking area
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Thornburg, who had been staying in a motel in the Fort Worth suburb of Euless in July that year, confessed to police that Lueras had visited him at the motel and allegedly admitted to slitting Lueras' throat and dismembering him in the bathtub.
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Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
In September 2021, Thornburg killed three people, dismembered their bodies and stored them under his bed at a motel in Euless, Texas, before lighting the bodies on fire inside a dumpster in Fort Worth.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 23 Nov. 2024
The car was located by police in a parking lot in Holtsville on May 2 — the same day officials responded to a call of a male suffering from an overdose at a motel in Ronkonkoma.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 22 Nov. 2024
According to the arrest warrant affidavit obtained by the Milford Police Department, investigators reviewed surveillance footage and found that Kirkland was brought to the motel in the evening of Aug. 20 in a vehicle driven by his mother.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 13 Nov. 2024
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Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
In September 2021, Thornburg killed three people, dismembered their bodies and stored them under his bed at a motel in Euless, Texas, before lighting the bodies on fire inside a dumpster in Fort Worth.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 23 Nov. 2024
The car was located by police in a parking lot in Holtsville on May 2 — the same day officials responded to a call of a male suffering from an overdose at a motel in Ronkonkoma.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 22 Nov. 2024
According to the arrest warrant affidavit obtained by the Milford Police Department, investigators reviewed surveillance footage and found that Kirkland was brought to the motel in the evening of Aug. 20 in a vehicle driven by his mother.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 13 Nov. 2024
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“Motel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/motel. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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motel
noun
mo·tel
mō-ˈtel 
: a building or group of buildings which provide lodgings and in which the rooms are usually reached directly from an outdoor parking lot
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