BATON ROUGE - A woman was found dead in a Baton Rouge hotel room on Sunday night. The Baton Rouge Police Department said that 56-year-old Linda Mayes' body was found in a room at the Regency Inn on Gwenadele Avenue shortly before 6:30 p.m. Officers said she had trauma to her body. A cause of death will be determined in an autopsy, but her death is being investigated as a homicide. No more information will be immediately available. Permalink| Comments