Guests spend night at hotel unaware of woman's body hidden in their room

A tour guide in Florida has been arrested by authorities after a tragic was made inside a closet at a resort. A woman, who had been beaten to death, was sadly found on Monday, having been reported missing two days earlier. It means that other guests unwittingly slept over night with a in the same room.

Nadyne Marie Tillman, 43, from Key Largo, was found with injuries consistent with being beaten, and was left inside a room at the Amoray Dive Resort in Key Largo, on 8 April, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. That same day, police arrested 33-year-old Dylan Lamb, who works as a kayak tour guide and at a local outdoor outfitters, according to , on a murder charge in connection to Tillman's death.

Monroe County Sheriff's Office officials said Lamb met Nadyne at the Amoray Dive Resort on Saturday morning. Tillman's family filed a missing person report to police after not hearing from that point, calling this lack of activity "unusual," said Adam Linhardt, a spokesperson for the Sheriff's office. Ka Thigpen, a local resident, told the broadcaster that her own mother was in town at the time, and had been staying in the room next to Lamb's at the resort.

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She said they saw Tillman's daughter searching near Lamb's room for her mother after a tracking app on her phone led her to the area. "We just saw like frequently throughout the last few days, like the gentleman in and out, and her poor daughter came around looking and knocking on everyone's door," Thigpen told the broadcaster.

According to police, her body was found stuffed into a closet in the room, under a water heater, that Lamb had rented. He had checked into his room on the Friday beforehand and allegedly refused to leave the room when hotel staff requested he move to another to make way for new arrivals, reported the the .

The sheriff's report said that after Lamb checked out on the Sunday, cleaning staff made the first horrifying discovery. They allegedly came across bloodied sheets stuffed into large waste bags - but threw them away, choosing not to notify the police. There was also evidence of "soiled towels and bed liners".

New arriving guests would have spent at least one night in the same room as the woman's corpse, unaware there was a dead body wedged and squeezed into the cramped crawl space of the air-conditioning closet. "I want to thank the men and women of the Sheriff's Office for working around the clock to make an arrest in this case," Sheriff Rick Ramsay said in a statement. "While the investigation remains ongoing, there do not appear to be any other individuals involved in this incident."

Lamb has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder, kidnapping, and evidence destroying. He remains behind bars in MCSO's Key West jail facility as of Wednesday and is scheduled for court on May 13.