Lisette said no, she had never heard of the Blue Moon Motel.

NEWYORKER: I.D.

When Hughes called the Blue Springs motel later on Monday to find out if Koechner was there, a motel worker said she was standing at the check-out desk and handed her he phone.

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Had Lisette heard of the Blue Moon Motel?

NEWYORKER: I.D.

By the time Blue Springs police arrived at the motel, Koechner was gone.

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Those concerns were compounded when Koechner reached out to her boyfriend from a motel in the Kansas City suburb of Blue Springs on Monday.

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Sandra Hall, assistant manager of the Beach Motel in Treaddur Bay, near Holyhead, Anglesey, said the bay's blue flag status was vital to the local economy.

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She squints at me and holds a blue-lacquered fingernail to her lips, as though she were about to land a luxury suite down at the Motel 6.

NEWYORKER: Indianapolis (Highway 74)