According to the documents, Andrea Tatum had checked into the motel around 10 p.m. on March 19 and she was in the company of her husband and three others. All of those people were captured on surveillance video, and they were all seen in the area of room #132. Over an hour later, the three others left, and they later told police that Tatum and his wife were the only people left in the room as of about 11:30 p.m.
At approximately 5:40 a.m.,
one of the witnesses returned to the motel to pick up Tatum. When the witness arrived, he knocked on the room door, and Tatum answered. The witness told police he saw Andrea Tatum lying face down on the bedthe same way she was found by officers. The witness did not see anyone else in the room, but Tatum wouldnt let him inside. Tatum and the witness left, and he eventually dropped Tatum off at the Southern Avenue Metro Station in Suitland.
According to the documents, investigators found that the room had been accessed by an electronic key card given to the Tatums and the witnesses when they arrived at 10:13 p.m. as they first entered the room. The door wasnt opened with a scan card until 8:58 a.m. the next morning, when police came in and found Andrea Tatum.
