She Was Starting a New Job… But Was Found Murdered in Her Motel Room

In June 1982, 32-year-old Lee Rotatori moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa, to begin a promising new job as a hospital food service director. She checked into a motel while her husband prepared to move their home to the area. The night before her first official day of work, Lee went boating with new coworkers and returned to her room. The next morning, she never showed up for work. When staff entered her motel room, they found Lee dead on the bed, stabbed once in the heart and sexually assaulted. Investigators quickly looked at her husband, Jerry Nemke, who had a shocking past involving a brutal murder decades earlier. But Nemke had an alibi and wasn’t even in Iowa at the time. With a motel full of travelers near a busy highway interchange, the killer may have disappeared within minutes. For More than 40 years Lee Rotatori’s murder remained unsolved. #truecrime #unsolvedmystery #coldcase #truecrimecommunity #truecrimestory #unsolvedcrime #murdermystery #justiceforvictims #coldcasefiles #truecrimeobsessed #truecrimeaddict #mystery #crimehistory #unsolvedmurders #criminalcase