Crime Scene: How Sleuths Connected Morbid the Death Metal Musician to the Elisa Lam Case
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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, at the Cecil Hotel a year before Elisa Lam s death. In Netflix s
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, we hear from Vergara in episodes three and four as he unpacks how the unofficial internet true-crime investigation caught him off guard and put him through a personal whirlwind. So how did Vergara fit into the story? Here s how the case unfolded for him.
True-crime docuseries are designed to make you keep watching. Every episode ends on a cliffhanger, as the filmmakers lay out a trail of breadcrumbs leading viewers through a shocking crime and into a mystery toward its conclusion which, if you watch a lot of these things, is rarely as satisfying as one might hope. More so than many documentaries of its type,
Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel does actually provide concrete answers to its central questions. But make sure you watch the whole thing, or else you’ll walk away with some wild ideas about what happened to 21-year-old Canadian university student Elisa Lam when she vanished from the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on January 31, 2013.