GUEST AT FORT LEE MOTEL SOUGHT IN BEATING DEATH

By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Friday, January 17, 1992

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A man who checked into a room at the Palisades Motor Lodge in Fort Lee on Tuesday is being sought for questioning in the beating death of a 26-year-old woman whose body was found in the room, authorities said Thursday.

The manager of the motel at 1415 Bergen Blvd. called police about 4:40 p.m. Wednesday after finding the body of Katherine Gallagher when he went into the room to do maintenance work, Bergen County Prosecutor John J. Fahy said.

Investigators believe the woman may have been staying at the motel since Tuesday evening with the unidentified man, who checked into the room about 7 p.m.

Fahy said an autopsy was not completed Thursday.

Gallagher was a former resident of Bayonne and Union City.

Authorities Thursday did not have a current address.

She was unemployed, Fahy said.

She had worked as a computer operator at Gold Coast Freightways Inc. at 450 Duncan Ave., Jersey City, for two years, but had not worked there in about a year, said a man who identified himself as an official of the company.

He declined to comment further.

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