The woman whose body was found this afternoon at an Edgewater motel checked in with a male companion on May 9, according to the desk clerk at the hotel.

The two guests had not paid their bill and were not answering the phone in their room at the Chicago Lodge, 920 W. Foster. That led hotel staff to open the room, the clerk said.

The woman had been stabbed and her body left in a closet, he said.