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ST. LOUIS -- St. Louis homicide investigators are looking into the death of a woman whose body was found bound and gagged in a hotel bathtub.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that police were called to a Holiday Inn at Interstate 44 and Hampton Avenue around 9 a.m. Thursday.

A hotel housekeeper was cleaning the room on the sixth floor when she threw back the curtains of the bathtub and found the woman.

The Post-Dispatch reported the woman was in her mid 20s but has not been identified.

Some members of the Texas Rangers organization, in St. Louis for the World Series, are staying at the hotel, but police do not believe the woman is from Texas or is connected to the team.

Investigators believe she is from the greater St. Louis area, possibly from Illinois.

Police sources provided the detail about the woman being bound.

Capt. Michael Sack of the St. Louis Police Department wouldn't confirm the woman had been bound and gagged.

However, he did say the woman had visible injuries and that her death is a homicide.

Police think the woman had the room for a couple days but was killed sometime in the past 24 hours.

Investigators are checking the hotel surveillance footage for clues.

(The Associated Press contributed to this story.)