I can only think that if he was at a meeting, it wasn't a sales meeting with a 'client'. Chartone already has sales personnel in Virginia, so what reason is there for a North Carolina employee (let alone a possible probationary employee) to travel to VA to sell to a client residing there when it's cheaper for them businesswise to send a VA Sales person? If you look at the job vacancies at Chartone, it seems that employees have a sales area. Any out of town or overnight stayers would probably be for training purposes or personnel meetings or conferences.
Due to Jason's lack of cooperation with LE, I don't think he would've told them where he stayed during the phone call. They found that out during the search of his SUV, same as where he stopped for gas fills. So by that time, the cleaner would've already cleaned the hotel room he had apparently stayed in, sheets would've been washed etc. They could still go over the room with a vacuum sweeper as I would hazard a guess and say that if the room was in a clean state, the cleaner would've given it a quick go over, but hopefully not a thorough clean.
LE would questioned the cleaner as to whether or not the bed appeared to be slept in. Depending on how observant the cleaner is she/he may have noticed that the bed may have been crumpled but without tell tale signs of having actually been slept in.....ie sheets etc 'with signs of heat creasing from a body laying in it for a period of time' as opposed to just messed up to look like it was slept in.
Sami
MOO..
(I'm starting to sound like a cow, lmao)