#Eliza lam series#
This is much more than a series about Lam’s death or the Cecil Hotel, although those stories are incredibly creepy and compelling on their own.
An artist named Morbid, whose real name is Pablo Vergara, was hounded online and accused of her death by these sleuths. They even believed one particular guest could be to blame. The series goes through a numbers of theories YouTubers and internet sleuths worked through to explain her death, ranging from an employee at the hotel being involved, to a government conspiracy to infect the homeless population on Skid Row that went wrong. (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images) The corpse was found February 19 after hotel guests complained of low water pressure. The body of 21-year-old Canadian tourist Elisa Lam was found in a water tank on the roof of the hotel three weeks after she went missing, police said. 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.
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#Eliza lam serial#
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.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. 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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