The identified the woman as Debra Black.
Black, 48, from Canton, had checked into the hotel earlier in the week. She was found by a cleaning lady the morning of Thursday, June 2.
According to police, the cleaning lady found Black's body lying on a bed in room 138 around 10:40 to 10:50 a.m. during her normal cleaning rotation.
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Details released by Roswell say the room was in disarray and the "body had some points of interest on it." The Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office will not provid a cause of death until a toxicology report comes back.
The case is still under investigation.
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Editor's note: A version of this story first appeared Friday on Roswell Patch.
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