February thirteenth, 2017, the day before Valentine's Day.
Mirena drove two hundred miles south from Seattle to Portland, Oregon.
She walked into the Blackwood Hotel lobby and checked in at 4:47 in the afternoon.
She used her real name, her real credit card.
She was not trying to hide.
And that is exactly what makes this so disturbing.
Room 313, third floor, corner room.
The front desk clerk later told police that Mirena seemed calm, polite, completely put together.
But her eyes kept