It is my understanding from comments on other forums that this motel/hotel is well known as a place to meet a prostitute or take a prostitute and that the management is okay with this and probably in on the profits. It is said to be protected from busts. This is MOO and might be appropriate for the rumor thread, but if I put it there no one would see it as being related to this conversation. IMO the serial killer went there not because he is a factory worker, or lives in the area, but because it is part of the sex slave industry.