Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel unpacks the tragic case of Elisa Lam, a young traveler who was found in the water tank of the Cecil Hotel in 2013. Her cause of death was officially listed as an… Continue Reading
Elisa Lam’s 2013 disappearance was strange, to say the very least. It unfolded at downtown Los Angeles’ Cecil Hotel, a place marked by a history of death, suicide, and serial killers. Days before a hotel worker discovered Lam’s body in… Continue Reading
The black metal musician Morbid unexpectedly found himself in the middle of the tragic and bizarre Elisa Lam case when people started lurking around his YouTube channel. Web sleuths found a video of Morbid, whose real name is Pablo Vergara,… Continue Reading
On Feb. 19, 2013, a worker at Los Angeles’ Cecil Hotel made a gruesome discovery in the building’s main water tank: the body of the formerly missing 21-year-old Canadian student Elisa Lam. Guests had complained about the hotel’s water —… Continue Reading
To say that the last available footage of Elisa Lam is odd is an understatement. How the 21-year-old Canadian student ended up dead in a rooftop water tank at the infamous Cecil Hotel immediately created a frenzy on the Internet.… Continue Reading