The Hopeless Death of Kate Morgan
The “Beautiful Stranger” checked in to the Hotel Del Coronado, but did she ever check out?
8 min readNov 16, 2019
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On Thanksgiving day of 1892, an elegant woman walked into the lobby of the distinguished Hotel del Coronado. “The Del” was a new hotel then, and sprawled across the pristine beach of Coronado Island, south of San Diego, California. The woman was alone and…