Double NYC Hotel Deaths: Brooklyn Man Wanted

Two women are dead in what police believe may be a pattern of summer hotel murders in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

The NYPD released photos on Tuesday of 36-year-old Joseph Danclair — a former resident of Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, who is wanted in connection to the sinister pattern.

The first victim, a 35-year-old white woman, was found dead inside the Bushwick Hotel at 71 Bushwick Avenue on the afternoon of July 23, police say.

The second victim, a 43-year-old white woman, was found dead inside the Manhattan Broadway Hotel at 273 West 38th Street on the afternoon of Sept. 8, police say.

Police are not yet classifying the two mysterious deaths as homicides, as the NYC Chief Medical Examiner is still determining both women’s official cause of death. Police are also not releasing the names of the victims, as doing so could jeopardize their investigation — and violate the victims’ privacy, given preliminary evidence that they may have been sexually assaulted.

However, police sources said there were signs of neck trauma on both women, indicating some sort of strangulation.

And Danclair, sources said, was seen entering both hotels with his respective victims — then exiting without them.

Danclair is described as 5-foot-six-inches tall and 170 pounds with a medium complexion, short black hair and brown eyes.

“He has a tattoo of two praying hands on his right upper arm and a tattoo of a rose on his left upper arm,” according to the NYPD, and is ”believed to have spent time with each of women prior to them being discovered dead in separate hotel rooms on separate dates.”

Anyone with information about the suspect or the crimes is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hotline at 800-577-TIPS. Tips can also be submitted online or by texting 274637 and entering TIP577.