Thursday, 11th February 2021 at 4:22 pm
Netflix’s new documentary Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel aims to shed light on the mysterious death of 21-year-old Canadian student Elisa Lam.
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On February 19th, 2013, Elisa’s body was found in a water tank on top of the LA-based hotel, weeks after she went missing on February 1st.
However, Elisa’s death isn’t the first and only mysterious occurrence at Cecil Hotel, with the hotel known for its long and grim history of a murders, suicides and unexplained events.
Those who watched Netflix’s Night Stalker may have already noticed that Richard Ramirez stayed there while on his killing spree, and in the opening scene of Crime Scene, an image of Ramirez is shown.
Welcome to Hotel Death : Horrors of Los Angeles hotel where serial killers let their hair down are laid bare in new Netflix series that details mysterious disappearances, suicides, and grisly murders
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel is the first installment of the anthology series, which focuses on eerie places shrouded in murder and death
There have been at least 16 deaths at the Cecil Hotel since it opened in 1927
Six people reportedly committed suicide in the hotel in the 1930s alone, while a teen mom threw her newborn baby out of the window after giving birth in 1944 Pigeon Goldie Osgood, a retired telephone operator, was found raped, strangled, and fatally stabbed at the Cecil Hotel in 1964