Lam was eventually found in a water tank on the room of the Cecil Hotel, with her clothing floating in the water.Ī worker stands on a water tank on the roof of the Hotel Cecil in Los Angeles California February 20, 2013. The video was watched by millions, which resulted in amateur sleuths spending their days and nights trying to figure out where she was and who was responsible.Īs even more people started to learn about the Cecil, the hotel become a cultural phenomenon with many wanting to go inside the “death hotel,” some simply wanted to see where Lam stayed. The video shows Lam going in and out of an elevator at the hotel, acting very bizarre, and making erratic and odd hand gestures. It not only made international headlines but a video shared by police, which showed her last moments alive, started a frenzy online. In 2013 Lam seemingly vanished from the hotel. In Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, we get to hear the exact words from her Tumblr posts to get a first-hand account of what her life was like, why she wanted to leave to explore California and what she was thinking when she was in Los Angeles. She was incredibly active on Tumblr, sharing her struggles with her medical condition, depression, anxiety and her personal goals for the future. Lam had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and was taking prescription medication. This is how Lam, who was a student at the University of British Columbia, ended up at the Cecil Hotel, after making a reservation for the Stay on Main. ![]() There was a different entrance and updated rooms, guests for the Stay on Main stayed on different floors away from Cecil Hotel occupants, but they did have to share the elevator bank, described in the series as a “vertical toilet” where all the guests in the building would have to interact.Ī scene from the Netflix documentary series "Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel," which tells the story of the death of Canadian Elisa Lam at the Los Angeles Cecil Hotel in 2013. ![]() Stay on Main was meant to be a hostel-type accommodation for young travellers. In an effort to rid itself of its bad reputation, the hotel ended up creating the Stay on Main, a concept for a separate hotel but still in the same building as the Cecil. The Cecil Hotel is surrounded by Skid Row, the area of Los Angeles described in the series as “ground zero” of one of the most “dangerous and violent” places in the U.S., and a “dumping ground” for people leaving jail or prison, or a mental facility. It was site of many gruesome deaths and murders, and was occupied by notorious serials killers including Richard Ramirez ( The Night Stalker) and Jack Unterweger, an Austria serial killer who killed multiple sex workers in Los Angeles.Īs the years progressed, it became an alternative to apartment living for people who didn’t have enough money for a deposit, individuals who couldn’t pass a background check, people just out of prison, individuals who were on the run or didn’t want someone knowing their whereabouts. ![]() The series is gripping right from the beginning, with so many odd and eerie stories from the hotel’s history. Deconstructing the mysterious death of Canadian student Elisa Lam in 2013, a new Netflix documentary series, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, is revealing secrets behind the notorious hotel, described as a place “where serial killers let their hair down.”įans of the Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story series may find this story familiar because the season titled American Horror Story: Hotel was inspired by the Cecil Hotel - but the Netflix series is more gritty and frightening (and less fabulous) than Lady Gaga gracing the halls of the Hotel Cortez.ĭirector Joe Berlinger ( Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes ) created an incredibly compelling, creepy, fascinating and heartbreaking four-part series, which includes commentary from individuals like Amy Price, former Cecil Hotel manager from 2007 to 2017, retired Los Angeles Police Department homicide detectives, individuals who have stayed at the hotel, web sleuths, historians and medical experts to thoroughly breakdown the circumstances of the hotel and Lam’s deaths like we haven’t seen before.
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