CONWAY, Ark. (KTHV) -- Police have released the name of a woman who was found dead in a Conway motel room over the weekend, as well as the name of the man suspected of homicide.
According to police, 41-year-old Susan Heather Stubbs was found unconscious in a room at Days Inn on Oak Street. When officers arrived, they are said to have found her face down on the floor, deceased.
LaTresha Woodruff with Conway police said detectives have tracked down the man who booked the room -- 53-year-old Scotty Gardner. As of Tuesday morning, Gardner was named as a suspect in Stubbs' death. He was arrested March 7 in Hot Springs and charged with second-degree murder.
Woodruff said a clerk told police Gardner booked the room and made arrangements to stay another night but didn’t show up; that’s when Stubb’s body was found.
Gardner was on parole at the time of his arrest, and is currently being held in the Faulkner County Detention Center.
Investigators said Stubbs and Gardner were in a relationship.
Police have not given a cause of death.
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