Their only lead was the fact that she had gone to a bookstore in Downtown Los Angeles on the day she disappeared.Īlso Read: 'The Vanishing at Cecil Hotel' Director on Why He Wanted to Debunk Myths in Elisa Lam Case Late night employees had seen her in an area not open to guests. “The room was in disarray,” one investigator said, but no foul play was suspected. Items left behind included her computer, all her clothes, her wallet and her medication. However, on January 31, 2013, when she was supposed to check out of the Cecil, her parents didn’t hear from her and reported her missing. Lam had been been traveling in the Southern California area and would call her parents in British Columbia, where she went to university, every day. “If you didn’t watch yourself, you might be flying out the window without wings,” one former resident said in the doc. Another cop said, “When I was on patrol here, you could expect 1-3 calls a day from the Cecil.” Incidents included someone trying to burn down the hallways, domestic abuse, assaults and stabbing, someone slashing their own throat with a razor and even someone jumping out the window and hitting someone on the pavement below, killing him instantly. Former general manager Amy Price of the hotel said there were thousands of 911 calls in the 10 years she worked there. Since then, the hotel has had a lot of safety issues.
The Cecil cost $1 million to build in the 1920s, which was expensive for the time. One witness said he would often see Ramirez take off his bloody clothes in the alley and walk up the Cecil stairs to his room. the Night Stalker, stayed at the hotel between his grizzly murders. That’s true in at least one instance– Richard Ramirez, a.k.a.
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One interview subject in the documentary series even said the hotel is where “serial killers let their hair down.” The Hotel itself was colloquially known to have “insanity within its walls,” with guests ranging from drug dealers to prostitutes and rapists. Check out the eight most shocking details from the series below. “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel” hits Netflix on Wednesday. Incidentally, investigators are now pretty certain of what happened to Lam: Her Bipolar disorder led her to hide in the water tank, where she ultimately drowned, Serious spoiler alert - do not read on if you don’t want to know what is discussed in the documentary.
The series also explores the area surrounding the Cecil Hotel, Skid Row, and how it’s been treated historically - a 56-block section has been contained into an area of poverty, drug trade and high crime.Īlso Read: 'The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel': Inside the LA Landmark's Terrifying History Joe Berlinger’s “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel” delves into that history, as well as the mysterious circumstances surrounding Lam’s death. That all might be because the hotel in question has been linked to several notable murders and suicides over its 94-year history. Some blame hotel guests and staff, other suggest she was hunted and murdered, and still others say she was playing a Korean game that took on a tragic dimension. Nonetheless, theories on why Lam vanished and how she died have circled ever since. Police later said there was no evidence of trauma and her death was accidental, even if the exact circumstances leading to her demise remain unknown. (Spoiler alert: Do not read on if you haven’t seen Netflix’s “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel.”)Įlisa Lam was a 21-year-old student visiting Los Angeles for the first time when she mysteriously disappeared in 2013, and was found in a water tank of the Cecil Hotel in Downtown L.A.
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