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From the parking lot of the Red Roof Inn, a witness could see Sammi Jo Burkhart screaming. When police arrived, Burkhart was standing at a motel room door, visibly shaking, an officer wrote in court documents. She told them her ex-boyfriend, Mark Harley O’Leary, grabbed her arm and pulled her into the room as she tried to leave, court documents say. She grabbed the door frame but couldn’t hold .