Does this room in question have a door(s) to the outside?
“Does this room have a door to the outside?”
I have no idea. But Poindexter, owner of the lodge, has a key to the room’s door, as he said he went in at 11am and found the body cold.
Other hotel employees would have keys, too, one would assume.
Plus, locksmith tools can be easily acquired by anyone.
Anybody with means and intent could have entered that room thru the main door, or a secondary door, if one existed.
I handnt even thought of that. Thanks for bringing it up. Reports mentioned he was in the El Presidente suite, which suggests (to me, anyway) an upstairs room, isolated from others—? Possibly with only one door, opening onto a hallway—? But I don’t know.