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Memphis police never checked inside a motel room where a missing woman had been staying - and where her body was discovered months later on Monday, according to various reports including the Chicago Tribune.


The body of Sony Millbrook was found hidden inside a metal frame beneath a mattress and box spring after the Budget Inn motel had reported a foul odor inside her old room, the story says. The room had been locked for lack of payment the day she went missing, but the motel had since cleaned out her belongings and rented it five times, the story says.

Joseph Scott, Memphis police's deputy chief of investigative services, said told FoxNews.com that they've "never heard of anything like this...It's stranger than fiction."

The woman had been reported missing to Memphis police on Jan. 27 after