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Alabama attorney Eddie Daniel filed a $100 million dollar lawsuit yesterday, December 3, in Knox County Circuit Court on behalf of Cynthia Senn and Michael Peeden, the parents of murdered Alabama waitress Jenny Lee Hampton. The suit is seeking compensatory damages in the amount of twenty-five million and punitive damages in the amount of seventy-five million. The family allege that negligence on the part of the managers at the Days Inn located at 326 Lovell Road in Knoxville Tennessee allowed Valentino Vasquez Miranda to kill their daughter.

Jenny Lee Hampton disappeared from her room at 326 Lovell Road, Knoxville Tennessee on Septmeber 20, 2008. A week after she disappeared her body was found floating in Melton Hill Lake. The county medical examiner ruled she had been strangled to death.

Police arrested Valentino Vasquez Miranda and charged him with first degree murder. Miranda was a Days Inn housekeeper. He is being accused of using a master key to gain access to Hampton’s room on the morning of September 20th.

Cynthia Senn and Michael Peeden are suing Days Inn because there was at least one other incident involving an employee using a master key to break into a room occupied by sisters Meghan Casey and Heather Casey and trying to assault them. Senn and Peeden charge that the managers at the Days Inn failed to “monitor the use of master keys for patron safety” while aware of the incident with the Casey girls.