A room cleaner made the grim discovery.
Ruth Naomi Thorp, a young mother from Catonsville living in Glen Burnie, was strangled to death at the Econolodge off Route One in Elkridge in April 1982.
“Ruth Thorp was a young mother, she had a very young daughter at the time of her death. Ruth was actually going back to school, to get her GED,” said Tech Cpl. Wade Zufall with the Howard County Police Department…