Man Who Found Woman’s Body In Motel Speaks Out

May 19, 2022 4:07 am

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Pa. — (WPXI) – A man who found a woman’s body in his motel room says he hasn’t been able to sleep because he can still see her face when he closes his eyes. “I peeped around the bathroom corner. I saw the shadow, kind of looked around the bathroom door and I saw her there. And then I ran out the door and screamed, ‘She’s dead in here,’” said Tommy Pendland. He says he found a 42-year-old woman’s body after checking into his room at the Rodeway Inn in South Strabane Township on Saturday. He tells our news partners at Channel 11 other guests complained about the odor coming from that room. “Like I saw little kids’ stuff, a duffel bag, the drug stuff over here and then that smell, and I just put everything together,” said Pendland. South Strabane Police responded to the motel and are investigating. Officers say the way the woman’s body was decomposing — she probably had been dead for days.