Woman's Death in Anaheim Hotel Being Investigated as a Domestic-Violence ... - OC Weekly (blog)

It sounds like the beginning of a late-night-TV whodunit: Cops arrive at a hotel to find a dead woman and a man nursing a serious injury.

But when it comes to Tuesday's mystery, Anaheim police believe they have their suspect: the man from the hotel room now being treated for a significant abdominal injury in a local trauma center.

The call came in around 1:45 p.m. Tuesday from a hotel in the 1800 block of South Manchester Avenue. Based on a quick look at Google maps, that could be the Comfort Suites and Inn on the other side of Katella Avenue off Manchester, although the lobby door faces Katella.

There are no other hotels or motels until you get to the 1700 block of Manchester, according to the online service, but it's possible another structure went up after the map was created because that portion of the street feeds into Disney Way and the backside of Disneyland, around which new hotels spring up as though weeds.

Whichever hotel it is, its employees called the cops to say a couple that was supposed to have checked out at 11 a.m. had not--so take that as fair warning if you ever overstay your tenancy. Officers found the yet-to-be identified couple inside the room.

The specific cause of the wounds each suffered has not been disclosed, but police say one thing they are trying to determine is whether this was a case of domestic violence. It was certainly some kind of violence.

The suspect remains under guard in a local hospital, and once he is released, he will be booked on suspicion of murder, according to police, who are collecting tips about what happened between the two through Orange County CrimeStoppers at 1.855.TIP.OCCS.

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