November 19, 2024 • 29 mins
What led Elisa Lam to the eerie depths of a water tank atop the Cecil Hotel? This haunting question unravels a web of mystery, mental health struggles, and the sinister past of one of Los Angeles's most infamous hotels. Join us as we explore the chilling case of the 21-year-old Canadian tourist whose tragic end has sparked endless intrigue and theories. From her solo journey through California to the unsettling security footage that captured her last known movements, we trace the events leading up to Elisa's disappearance, raising critical questions about the investigation's many puzzling oversights.
As we dig deeper into the suspicious circumstances of Elisa's death, the challenges she faced in accessing a restricted rooftop add a layer of complexity to this tragic puzzle. Is it possible she was a victim of foul play, or could her mental health struggles have rendered her vulnerable to a different kind of danger? The lack of crucial evidence collection, like rape kit and fingernail analysis, leaves us questioning the thoroughness of the official inquiry. We also explore how her mental state, possibly heightened by a manic episode, might have intersected with the eerie environment of the Cecil Hotel, a place shrouded in a history of darkness and intrigue.
The episode doesn't just stop at Elisa's story; we also reflect on the ghostly echoes of the Cecil Hotel itself, a place intertwined with tales of notorious figures and unresolved pain. Even as Elisa's case is officially closed, the mystery lingers, fed by unsettling theories and haunting elevator footage. Her Tumblr blog’s posthumous updates add yet another layer of intrigue to a story that captivates and confounds in equal measure. By examining these elements, we invite listeners to ponder the complex interplay of mental health, potential foul play, and an unsettling backdrop that continues to evoke a persistent sense of mystery.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elisa_Lam
https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/elisa-lam
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a35461475/elisa-lam-true-story-death-elevator-crime-scene-netflix/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/elisa-lam-death
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/tourist-found-dead-in-l-a-hotel-water-tank-18843715534
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.442023
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Police confirmed the identity of a female's body
found in the water tank of an LAhotel.
21-year-old Elisa Lamdisappeared several weeks ago.
The Canadian tourist had beenstaying at the Cecil Hotel In
Los Angeles.
Police are looking into thebizarre death of a young woman
from Vancouver.
Elisa Lam's body was found in awater tank on a hotel roof
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yesterday.
Authorities released securityvideo last week showing Lam
acting strangely in the hotel.
They characterized herdisappearance as suspicious.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
The video captured Elisa Lam on the morning of
February 1st, 8.30 am, the dayshe was supposed to check out of
the Cecil Hotel.
But then the video takes astrange turn.
She punches all of the buttonson the control panel, then waits
.
She steps in and out severaltimes.
She even appears to begesturing in the hallway,
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although it's not clear ifsomeone is there or not.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
A young 21-year-old woman from Canada takes some
time off from her studies at theUniversity of British Columbia
to travel to sunny SouthernCalifornia.
She's traveling alone and herparents are worried.
However, she assures them thatshe will be okay.
To help ease their fears, shepromises to call and check in
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with them daily.
She spends some time in SanDiego.
Her plan was to then make herway up the coast to Los Angeles,
before ending her trip in thetown of Santa Cruz.
However, what was supposed tobe a relaxing getaway would end
in a tragic turn of events,events that would add to the
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stream of bizarre occurrencesthat already surround the
infamous Cecil Hotel.
This is the story of Elisa Lam,and this is Gone in a Blink.
Hey, true crime fans, I'm yourhost, heather, and I'm Danielle.
(02:21):
Welcome to episode 29 of Gonein a Blink.
Because of the fact that wewere actually recording this
episode last week, just a fewdays after Veterans Day, I
wanted to send a shout out toeveryone who has and still is
serving our country.
Thank you for all that you doand all that you've sacrificed.
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So today's case takes place inLos Angeles, california.
Today, we are talking about thetragic and mysterious death of
Elisa Lam.
So if you're ready, let's jumpright in.
Elisa Lam was born on April 30th1991 to parents David and Yenna
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Lam in Vancouver, britishColumbia.
Her parents immigrated toCanada from Hong Kong, where
they opened a restaurant inBurnaby, british Columbia.
Elisa was a student atUniversity Hills Secondary, as
well as the University ofBritish Columbia.
She had one sister, sarah Lamb,who shared her love of fashion
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and her taste for adventure.
In 2010, elisa started a blogby the name of Ether Fields on
Blogspot where she would postpictures of fashion and designer
clothes and things like that,while also discussing the
struggles she endured withmental health.
In one of her blog posts datedin January 2012, elisa talked
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about how she had been dealingwith a relapse during the start
of her second semester incollege and that it had forced
her to drop out of several ofher classes.
Elisa told her readers that shehad been diagnosed with bipolar
disorder and depression, and itwas reported that Elisa's
family kept her mental illnessprivate and that she had never
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shown any signs of suicidalideation.
It was reported, however, thatElisa did have a history of not
taking her prescription bipolarmeds, which actually resulted in
several instances where shebegan having hallucinations that
ended with her hiding under herbed in terror, and in at least
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one of those instances, elisawas actually hospitalized.
So in January of 2013, elisadecided that she needed a break
from everything, and so sheplanned a solo trip to
California.
Her parents were not verycomfortable with the fact that
she'd be traveling alone.
However, elisa reassured themthat she would be okay and
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agreed to call and check in withthem daily in order to kind of
put their fears to ease.
So Elisa traveled via Amtrakand city buses, starting her
journey in San Diego.
She visited the San Diego Zooand shared photos of her visit
on social media, and her planfrom there was to make her way
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to Los Angeles and do somesightseeing before heading north
to Santa Cruz, where she wouldfinish her journey before
heading back home, where shewould finish her journey before
heading back home.
She arrived in Los Angeles onJanuary 26th and checked into
the infamous Cecil Hotel,located in downtown LA and
within very close proximity todowntown's Skid Row, and, for
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our listeners who may not befamiliar with the area, skid Row
is a neighborhood located indowntown Los Angeles, also
officially known as Central CityEast, that contains one of the
largest populations of homelesspeople in the United States.
According to Wikipedia, reportsstate that she had initially
been assigned to a shared roomon the fifth floor of the Cecil.
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However, the people whom sheshared a room with had made
complaints to the front deskabout Elisa's odd behavior, so
Elisa didn't actually book herreservations with the Cecil
Hotel, but instead she hadbooked her stay with the Stay on
Main, which is a budget hostelthat actually offered a section
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of low-cost rooms and sharedbathrooms for long-term
residents, and in 2011, theCecil Hotel had converted half
of its floors to the stay onmain, and then that part of the
hotel was rebranded as the stayon main, which includes shared
bathrooms, like I mentioned, andshowers on each floor.
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So, after two days of sharing aroom, elisa was moved into a
room of her own and, accordingto reports, amy Price, who was
the manager of the Cecil Hoteland the stay on Main at the time
of Elisa's disappearance,stated that Elisa was leaving
notes for her roommates thatsaid go home and go away, and
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that she would lock the door tothe room and require a password
for them to enter.
There were also reports thatElisa had attended a live taping
of Conan O'Brien's show inBurbank, california, and that
she had been escorted off thepremises due to her odd and
disruptive behavior.
Right up until the day Elisadisappeared, she had been
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contacting her family daily.
When they didn't hear from heron January 31st 2013, the day
she was scheduled to be checkedout of the Cecil and make her
way to Santa Cruz, they becameworried, and as the days went by
and still no word from theirdaughter, they decided to
contact the Los Angeles PoliceDepartment.
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On February 8th, policequestioned hotel staff, who
reported that they had seenElisa alone that day, and Katie
Orfin, manager of a localbookstore called Last Bookstore,
remembered seeing Elisa comeinto her store on that day that
she disappeared, and Katiedescribed her as very friendly
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and outgoing and stated that shewas excited about buying gifts
to take back home to her family.
Police searched the hotel,including Elisa's room, and
brought in scent dogs to searchthe building as well as the
rooftop.
It is important to note, though, that police did not search
every room within the hotelbecause, according to Sergeant
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Rudy Lopez, they only were ableto obtain legal authority to
search rooms where they hadprobable cause to believe that a
crime had taken place.
So, a week after Elisa'sdisappearance, police decided to
ask for the public's help inlocating her, and they posted
flyers with her picture aroundthe neighborhood as well as
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online.
On february 13th, policereleased a surveillance video
taken from inside the elevatorof the hotel, a video that has
since gone viral, and I willpost this video on our Facebook
page.
The video is approximately twoand a half minutes long and
shows Elisa walking into theelevator alone and standing in
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the corner by the control panel,as if she was hiding from
someone.
She then proceeds to pressevery button on the elevator
panel as she crouches down.
The elevator door remains openthe whole time, I might add,
which I find incredibly strangeand then she peeks out of the
elevator doors and then getsright back in.
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Then she steps out of theelevator again and begins to
make unusual hand motions whilelooking down the hall.
The elevator door finallycloses.
No one else was seen on thefootage other than Elisa.
So, danielle, you've seen thisvideo.
What do you make of this?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Unfortunately, it's pretty sad To me.
It looked like she was having amanic episode.
So from her bipolar, the handgestures that you saw, that to
me looked like hallucinations.
Bipolar is also a lot of timesaccompanied with paranoia.
It seemed like she felt likesomebody was following her.
(10:17):
We never saw on the footageanybody walk by.
I would be interested to knowif they have that camera inside
of the elevator, if they wouldhave a camera in the hallway as
well.
That could maybe give us alittle more insight.
By what we saw and her handgestures it looked like she was
(10:38):
having hallucinations and justkind of that goes typically,
unfortunately, with a diagnosisof bipolar well, and that's what
it seems like.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
It does seem like that she's having some kind of
hallucinations, but others couldlook at it like she's running
from someone.
She's hiding in the corner ofthe elevator and I'm not sure
what to make of the pressingevery single button.
But what I found really odd isthat the elevator door stayed
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open for the entire.
Well, the video was two and ahalf minutes, so for two and a
half minutes at least, theelevator door never closed, and
I found that really odd.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
No, you're absolutely right.
I do think that that's odd, butI mean, I don't know how old
the building is if maybe theystayed open or if she had pushed
that button for it to stay openfor an extended period of time.
Now, when I first saw the video, I kind of thought, like you is
that it looked like somebodywas following her.
She was obviously scared.
But then, as I started to watchand started to see these what
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looked like hallucinations, itbecame apparent to me that, okay
, there was some kind ofparanoia that was going on, that
she felt, yes, in the momentthat someone was following her
and you know we see her go inand out of the elevator just
kind of peeking through that itlooked like she genuinely was
(12:02):
scared.
But then I did see, you know,those hand gestures and I mean,
granted, of course I work in themental health field, so it
looks different to me than itwould to somebody else.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
But then for me personally it just became clear
that that looked like that wasunfortunately a bipolar episode
following Elisa's disappearance,guests of the Cecil Hotel began
complaining of low waterpressure in the building and
that the water had a strangetaste to it.
Some even complained of thewater appearing black.
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On the morning of February 19th, a hotel maintenance worker by
the name of Santiago Lopezdiscovered the lifeless body of
Elisa Lamb, floating face up andnaked, in one of the four 1,000
gallon tanks located on theroof of the Cecil Hotel.
The tanks were used to providewater to guest rooms, a kitchen
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and a coffee shop.
On February 21st, the LA CountyCoroner's Office announced that
Elisa's cause of death was dueto accidental drowning, with
bipolar disorder as asignificant factor leading to
her death.
The Full Corners report wasreleased the following June and
stated that Elisa's body hadbeen found nude and that
clothing, much like the clothingthat she was seen wearing in
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the elevator surveillancefootage, was found floating near
her in the water.
Her watch and room key werefound in the water near her as
well.
However, her phone still hasnever been found, so that's
pretty weird.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
That is weird.
I mean you can't rule out justbecause it obviously was bipolar
to a certain extent, butsomebody must have came upon the
body to steal the phone One.
So I don't know if someone tookadvantage of her condition and
maybe there was some foul play.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Well, and it gets more strange as we continue.
So her body was bloated andmoderately decomposed when found
and medical examiners notedthat no evidence of physical
trauma had been found on her.
Toxicology results confirmed avery minimal amount of alcohol
was found in her system and onlysmall amounts of prescription
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meds consistent with those foundin her room.
No recreational drugs of anykind were found in her results.
So now that that it has beenconfirmed how Lisa Liam died,
the question that was really oneveryone's mind is how this
young, petite 21-year-old womangot into the tank in the first
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place.
How did she get into thesetanks?
First, she would have had toaccess the roof where the tanks
were located, and accessibilityto the rooftop was no easy task.
The doors and stairs that giveaccess to the hotel's rooftop
are locked, allowing only hotelstaff to enter these areas,
having to first enter passwordsor obtain a key.
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Any kind of attempt to forceentry into this area would have
set off an alarm.
Reports state that the hotel'sfire escape may have been the
only way to access the rooftopand bypass these security
measures.
Police sent dogs had picked upher scent that ended next to a
window that connected to thefire escape.
So I guess it is possible thatshe went out the window and onto
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the fire escape, but then itgets even harder from there to
access these tanks.
So many internet sleuths havefound the circumstances
obviously surrounding Elisa'sdeath as incredibly suspicious,
and personally I do too.
I find it very odd.
She would have had to make itto the roof, bypassing all the
security measures, beforeclimbing a 10-foot ladder just
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to get to the tanks.
And all four of the cylindertanks were about 4 by 8 feet or
1.2 by 2.4 centimeters and werepropped up on top of concrete
blocks.
Workers actually had to drainthe tank and cut it open just to
remove Elisa's body because themaintenance hatch was too small
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for workers to utilize theequipment necessary to get her
out.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
So you're saying, to get her in there, I mean it
would have had to have takensomebody that knew how to open
them, and I mean, of course,there's no way that she would
have known how to do that.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
It just seems like a lot of trouble.
Personally, and I don't know,from what I've read, I don't
feel like maybe she was suicidal, but I feel like either someone
killed her and put her intothat tank or she was just having
such a manic episode that maybeshe didn't even realize that
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she was getting into a watertank.
I don't know.
It just seems like a lot.
So even if she bypassedsecurity measures, accessed the
roof, climbed a ladder to thetop of one of those tanks, she
would then have to lift theheavy lid to get inside, and I
will post pics of these tanksjust so you can kind of see what
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we're talking about.
There's also the fact that shewas undressed, which raises a
lot of unanswered questions.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
There just seems like there are so many red flags
there, I mean it would have totake somebody that was skilled
and knew about these tanks.
Usually, if it's a like a crimeof convenience, like oh wow,
this lady, they didn't knowexactly what was going on and
was really annoying a lot of thepeople at the hotel, I could
see that causing a crime againsther of some sort, but with most
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crimes they want to get in andout of there, I mean so that
they're not caught.
Whoever did this really tookthe time to hide the body and I
mean, wow, there's just seemslike so much more to the story.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Yeah, and if in fact it was foul play and that's
where everyone is kind ofquestioning.
You know a lot, because it's alot for one person to do to get
up there and do all that andlift these heavy lids and just
crawl inside.
I don't know, but she couldhave been having a manic episode
, like we said.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Well, yes, and I mean and I don't want to discount
that because, seeing that video,of course something was going
on mentally for her,unfortunately.
But this I mean from whatyou're describing, heather
Heather, there's so much morethat took place.
It's not like she would havethis manic episode and then just
have, like this brute strengthto do all these.
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This is a petite woman.
I definitely think that therewas some kind of foul play there
and I hope that the policefurther investigated this
because, manic episode or not,there's no way she could have
done all of that.
This would have taken days tokind of figure out and someone
that be very strategic about.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Well, and even if she was having a manic episode and
having hallucinations, there arepeople out there, unfortunately
, that are the type of peoplethat would see a young woman
like that having an episode andtake full advantage of that and
it's sad but that's apossibility.
I really feel like that's nottoo far-fetched considering.
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But the complete informationfrom the autopsy report is just
one of a slew of questions thatremain.
Was a rape kit and fingernailanalysis even conducted, and the
autopsy report mentions poolingof blood in her anal area which
could suggest a sexual assault.
However, it was also noted byat least one pathologist that
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this could be the result frombloating during the body's state
of decompensation.
Another question that seems togo without answers is the fact
that scent dogs never picked upElisa's scent when searching the
roof of the hotel.
That's strange too, so are wesaying there was no rape kit?
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No rape kit was conducted, nofingernail analysis was either.
That probably could have toldus a lot right there.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
That is a huge red flag.
I don't understand why thatwouldn't, especially if there
was the pooling of blood likethat and that is a known cause
or indication that there mayhave been a rape.
So any reasoning why thatwasn't conducted the rape kit.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I have not found anything that states why that
wasn't conducted.
I don't know if it's asituation where she had been in
water for so long.
You know, I really don't know.
I find it very odd that theywouldn't do a rape kit, and I
understand that the pooling ofblood in the anal area could
also be from bloating duringdecomp, but it could also be
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from sexual assault.
So I'm not sure why they didn'tproceed with all of that.
So theories of every kind beginflooding the internet into what
could have happened to Elisa.
One was that Elisa wasfrantically trying to get the
elevator door to shut in orderto get away from someone who may
have been following her.
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Others suggested that thesurveillance video had been
tampered with and that parts ofthe video had been slowed down
and one minute of footage hadbeen removed in order to protect
the identity of whoever wasafter her.
Some online sleuths took theirtheories and suspicions to a
whole nother level, suggestingparanormal activity Theories
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into the video surveillancefootage of Elisa in the elevator
suggested that she may havebeen playing what is called the
Korean elevator game, in whichpressing the elevator suggested
that she may have been playingwhat is called the Korean
elevator game in which pressingthe elevator buttons in a
specific pattern would open aportal to another dimension.
Others thought thecircumstances surrounding
Elisa's death were an uncannycomparison to the 2005 horror
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film Dark Water, in which amother and daughter move into a
rundown apartment building wherea faulty elevator and
discolored water coming from theapartment's faucets eventually
lead them to the building's roof, where they search the water
tank and find the body of amissing girl, whoa that sounds
very similar.
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I'd kind of now want to watchthis movie, yeah that's
incredibly uncanny, especiallybecause this isn't the type of
thing that you would normallysee A girl deceased in a water
tank on the rooftop of a hotel,inside water tanks that's not
something that is of the norm.
It is strange that it was in amovie in 2005 and then you know,
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and then this happens yearslater.
But many theorists delved intothe dark history surrounding
that of the Cecil Hotel, whichfirst opened its doors in 1927
and is known as one of the mosthaunted properties in LA.
One of the most hauntedproperties in LA.
Elizabeth Short, also referredto as the Black Dahlia, was
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reportedly seen having a drinkin the hotel bar just days
before her murder.
And for those who may beunfamiliar with that case,
elizabeth Short was a22-year-old aspiring actress who
was found viciously murderedand mutilated in Los Angeles on
January 15, 1947.
The media named her the BlackDahlia because of her preference
for black clothing.
So more than Cecil Hotel's darkhistory included serial killer
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Richard Ramirez, also known asthe Night Stalker, and it was
reported that in 1985, he livedon the top floor of the hotel
during his killing spree.
According to reports, afterRamirez committed a murder, he
would dump his blood-soakedclothes outside the hotel and
return to his room half naked,and apparently no one batted an
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eye to this kind of behaviorback then.
Then, in 1991, austrian serialkiller Jack Unterweger, also
known as the Vienna Strangler,also resided in the Cecil Hotel,
and the hotel itself has seenmore than a dozen murders and
suicides in and around theproperty since it opened and the
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Cecil Hotel were two propertiesthat had different lobbies and
entrances.
They both still shared the sameelevators, making the video
footage of Elisa on the elevatoreven creepier.
She acted as if she was hidingfrom someone, and who was she
making those hand gestures towhen she stepped off the
elevator?
Unfortunately, we may neverlearn the answer to that.
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In september 2013, elisa'sparents filed a wrongful death
lawsuit against the hotel,claiming that they failed to
inspect hazards that posed apotential danger to elisa as
well as other guests at thehotel.
They seeked to obtainunspecified damages as well as
burial costs.
The Cecil Hotel argued thatthey had no way of foreseeing
that Elisa would have enteredone of their water tanks and,
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because of the fact thatinvestigators could not
determine how Elisa got into thetank, the case was dismissed,
and this had to be yet anothermajor blow to her family.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
It's just so sad for this to happen in general, well,
yeah, that they've closed thecase.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
And then you know her parents are trying to file a
wrongful death lawsuit againstthe hotel.
I get that the hotel hadabsolutely no way of knowing
that she was going to make herway up there and end up in one
of the tanks.
But maybe there should be alock on those lids so that you
can't do that.
Another theory that some onlinesleuths had was the possibility
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that this could have been aninside job by a maintenance
worker or someone on the staffthat had access to those
security measures and would havebeen able to lift that lid.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
I kind of feel like that that is a very big
possibility because it has to besomebody, I guess, in my
opinion, that would know how toget through all the security
measures and be able to liftthose lids.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Well, yeah, that would be a really easy
explanation.
And then it kind of goes backto what I said earlier, the
theory that what if hotel staffsaw her behaving erratically and
then they took it uponthemselves to take advantage of
that?
She ends up dead.
Again, I don't like tospeculate, but right now that's
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kind of all we really have.
I know that the medicalexaminer has already stated that
she died of accidental drowningand that it was all it all
stemmed from her bipolardisorder.
But so many people aren'tstopping at that and I'm I guess
I'm one of those people.
I don't think that it was justsimply her having an episode and
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ending up somewhere like that.
Having an episode and ending upsomewhere like that, but
everything that she would havehad to do to get up to those
cylinder tanks and lift thatheavy lid and get inside, that's
a lot and that's really hard toswallow.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
No, I totally agree.
Yes to me in that video andwith what you had described,
that it was a bipolar episode.
But so many times,unfortunately, people take
advantage of that, as I had saidearlier as well.
Usually they're looking for acrime of convenience.
So that doesn't look to me likevery convenient.
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But I also feel like it had tobe somebody that knew kind of
the lay of the hotel and thatthe water tanks were even up
there.
So it's very odd to me that itcouldn't be an addition.
So we knew she had the episode,but this is an addition to that
(27:51):
.
Someone obviously tookadvantage of her.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I really feel like that too.
Elisa Lam was an avid bloggergoing by the username Nivelle
Niveau on Tumblr and, as of thisdate, her account still exists
and all the posts are stillthere.
According to reports, after herdeath, her Tumblr blog had been
updated through what we canonly assume to be Tumblr's
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automatic queue option thatallows posts to publish
themselves automatically ininstances where the account user
is away.
Despite all the suspicions andtheories that surround the death
of Elisa Lam, one thing remainscertain Her family, her friends
and everyone who loved her willforever have that void that
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only Elisa could fill.
The harsh reality that they maynever know for sure what
exactly happened on that fatefulday is more than any family
should have to bear.
As of today, elisa's case hasbeen closed.
However, if you have anyinformation into her case, I
would urge you to contact theLos Angeles Police Department's
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non-emergency number at areacode 877-ASK-LAPD, that's
1-877-275-5273.
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Police confirmed the identity of a female's body
found in the water tank of an LAhotel.
21-year-old Elisa Lamdisappeared several weeks ago.
The Canadian tourist had beenstaying at the Cecil Hotel In
Los Angeles.
Police are looking into thebizarre death of a young woman
from Vancouver.
Elisa Lam's body was found in awater tank on a hotel roof
(00:27):
yesterday.
Authorities released securityvideo last week showing Lam
acting strangely in the hotel.
They characterized herdisappearance as suspicious.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
The video captured Elisa Lam on the morning of
February 1st, 8.30 am, the dayshe was supposed to check out of
the Cecil Hotel.
But then the video takes astrange turn.
She punches all of the buttonson the control panel, then waits
.
She steps in and out severaltimes.
She even appears to begesturing in the hallway,
(01:03):
although it's not clear ifsomeone is there or not.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
A young 21-year-old woman from Canada takes some
time off from her studies at theUniversity of British Columbia
to travel to sunny SouthernCalifornia.
She's traveling alone and herparents are worried.
However, she assures them thatshe will be okay.
To help ease their fears, shepromises to call and check in
(01:29):
with them daily.
She spends some time in SanDiego.
Her plan was to then make herway up the coast to Los Angeles,
before ending her trip in thetown of Santa Cruz.
However, what was supposed tobe a relaxing getaway would end
in a tragic turn of events,events that would add to the
(01:52):
stream of bizarre occurrencesthat already surround the
infamous Cecil Hotel.
This is the story of Elisa Lam,and this is Gone in a Blink.
Hey, true crime fans, I'm yourhost, heather, and I'm Danielle.
(02:21):
Welcome to episode 29 of Gonein a Blink.
Because of the fact that wewere actually recording this
episode last week, just a fewdays after Veterans Day, I
wanted to send a shout out toeveryone who has and still is
serving our country.
Thank you for all that you doand all that you've sacrificed.
(02:45):
So today's case takes place inLos Angeles, california.
Today, we are talking about thetragic and mysterious death of
Elisa Lam.
So if you're ready, let's jumpright in.
Elisa Lam was born on April 30th1991 to parents David and Yenna
(03:06):
Lam in Vancouver, britishColumbia.
Her parents immigrated toCanada from Hong Kong, where
they opened a restaurant inBurnaby, british Columbia.
Elisa was a student atUniversity Hills Secondary, as
well as the University ofBritish Columbia.
She had one sister, sarah Lamb,who shared her love of fashion
(03:27):
and her taste for adventure.
In 2010, elisa started a blogby the name of Ether Fields on
Blogspot where she would postpictures of fashion and designer
clothes and things like that,while also discussing the
struggles she endured withmental health.
In one of her blog posts datedin January 2012, elisa talked
(03:50):
about how she had been dealingwith a relapse during the start
of her second semester incollege and that it had forced
her to drop out of several ofher classes.
Elisa told her readers that shehad been diagnosed with bipolar
disorder and depression, and itwas reported that Elisa's
family kept her mental illnessprivate and that she had never
(04:12):
shown any signs of suicidalideation.
It was reported, however, thatElisa did have a history of not
taking her prescription bipolarmeds, which actually resulted in
several instances where shebegan having hallucinations that
ended with her hiding under herbed in terror, and in at least
(04:33):
one of those instances, elisawas actually hospitalized.
So in January of 2013, elisadecided that she needed a break
from everything, and so sheplanned a solo trip to
California.
Her parents were not verycomfortable with the fact that
she'd be traveling alone.
However, elisa reassured themthat she would be okay and
(04:55):
agreed to call and check in withthem daily in order to kind of
put their fears to ease.
So Elisa traveled via Amtrakand city buses, starting her
journey in San Diego.
She visited the San Diego Zooand shared photos of her visit
on social media, and her planfrom there was to make her way
(05:15):
to Los Angeles and do somesightseeing before heading north
to Santa Cruz, where she wouldfinish her journey before
heading back home, where shewould finish her journey before
heading back home.
She arrived in Los Angeles onJanuary 26th and checked into
the infamous Cecil Hotel,located in downtown LA and
within very close proximity todowntown's Skid Row, and, for
(05:36):
our listeners who may not befamiliar with the area, skid Row
is a neighborhood located indowntown Los Angeles, also
officially known as Central CityEast, that contains one of the
largest populations of homelesspeople in the United States.
According to Wikipedia, reportsstate that she had initially
been assigned to a shared roomon the fifth floor of the Cecil.
(06:00):
However, the people whom sheshared a room with had made
complaints to the front deskabout Elisa's odd behavior, so
Elisa didn't actually book herreservations with the Cecil
Hotel, but instead she hadbooked her stay with the Stay on
Main, which is a budget hostelthat actually offered a section
(06:21):
of low-cost rooms and sharedbathrooms for long-term
residents, and in 2011, theCecil Hotel had converted half
of its floors to the stay onmain, and then that part of the
hotel was rebranded as the stayon main, which includes shared
bathrooms, like I mentioned, andshowers on each floor.
(06:42):
So, after two days of sharing aroom, elisa was moved into a
room of her own and, accordingto reports, amy Price, who was
the manager of the Cecil Hoteland the stay on Main at the time
of Elisa's disappearance,stated that Elisa was leaving
notes for her roommates thatsaid go home and go away, and
(07:08):
that she would lock the door tothe room and require a password
for them to enter.
There were also reports thatElisa had attended a live taping
of Conan O'Brien's show inBurbank, california, and that
she had been escorted off thepremises due to her odd and
disruptive behavior.
Right up until the day Elisadisappeared, she had been
(07:30):
contacting her family daily.
When they didn't hear from heron January 31st 2013, the day
she was scheduled to be checkedout of the Cecil and make her
way to Santa Cruz, they becameworried, and as the days went by
and still no word from theirdaughter, they decided to
contact the Los Angeles PoliceDepartment.
(07:51):
On February 8th, policequestioned hotel staff, who
reported that they had seenElisa alone that day, and Katie
Orfin, manager of a localbookstore called Last Bookstore,
remembered seeing Elisa comeinto her store on that day that
she disappeared, and Katiedescribed her as very friendly
(08:12):
and outgoing and stated that shewas excited about buying gifts
to take back home to her family.
Police searched the hotel,including Elisa's room, and
brought in scent dogs to searchthe building as well as the
rooftop.
It is important to note, though, that police did not search
every room within the hotelbecause, according to Sergeant
(08:34):
Rudy Lopez, they only were ableto obtain legal authority to
search rooms where they hadprobable cause to believe that a
crime had taken place.
So, a week after Elisa'sdisappearance, police decided to
ask for the public's help inlocating her, and they posted
flyers with her picture aroundthe neighborhood as well as
(08:54):
online.
On february 13th, policereleased a surveillance video
taken from inside the elevatorof the hotel, a video that has
since gone viral, and I willpost this video on our Facebook
page.
The video is approximately twoand a half minutes long and
shows Elisa walking into theelevator alone and standing in
(09:17):
the corner by the control panel,as if she was hiding from
someone.
She then proceeds to pressevery button on the elevator
panel as she crouches down.
The elevator door remains openthe whole time, I might add,
which I find incredibly strangeand then she peeks out of the
elevator doors and then getsright back in.
(09:39):
Then she steps out of theelevator again and begins to
make unusual hand motions whilelooking down the hall.
The elevator door finallycloses.
No one else was seen on thefootage other than Elisa.
So, danielle, you've seen thisvideo.
What do you make of this?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Unfortunately, it's pretty sad To me.
It looked like she was having amanic episode.
So from her bipolar, the handgestures that you saw, that to
me looked like hallucinations.
Bipolar is also a lot of timesaccompanied with paranoia.
It seemed like she felt likesomebody was following her.
(10:17):
We never saw on the footageanybody walk by.
I would be interested to knowif they have that camera inside
of the elevator, if they wouldhave a camera in the hallway as
well.
That could maybe give us alittle more insight.
By what we saw and her handgestures it looked like she was
(10:38):
having hallucinations and justkind of that goes typically,
unfortunately, with a diagnosisof bipolar well, and that's what
it seems like.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
It does seem like that she's having some kind of
hallucinations, but others couldlook at it like she's running
from someone.
She's hiding in the corner ofthe elevator and I'm not sure
what to make of the pressingevery single button.
But what I found really odd isthat the elevator door stayed
(11:08):
open for the entire.
Well, the video was two and ahalf minutes, so for two and a
half minutes at least, theelevator door never closed, and
I found that really odd.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
No, you're absolutely right.
I do think that that's odd, butI mean, I don't know how old
the building is if maybe theystayed open or if she had pushed
that button for it to stay openfor an extended period of time.
Now, when I first saw the video, I kind of thought, like you is
that it looked like somebodywas following her.
She was obviously scared.
But then, as I started to watchand started to see these what
(11:42):
looked like hallucinations, itbecame apparent to me that, okay
, there was some kind ofparanoia that was going on, that
she felt, yes, in the momentthat someone was following her
and you know we see her go inand out of the elevator just
kind of peeking through that itlooked like she genuinely was
(12:02):
scared.
But then I did see, you know,those hand gestures and I mean,
granted, of course I work in themental health field, so it
looks different to me than itwould to somebody else.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
But then for me personally it just became clear
that that looked like that wasunfortunately a bipolar episode
following Elisa's disappearance,guests of the Cecil Hotel began
complaining of low waterpressure in the building and
that the water had a strangetaste to it.
Some even complained of thewater appearing black.
(12:36):
On the morning of February 19th, a hotel maintenance worker by
the name of Santiago Lopezdiscovered the lifeless body of
Elisa Lamb, floating face up andnaked, in one of the four 1,000
gallon tanks located on theroof of the Cecil Hotel.
The tanks were used to providewater to guest rooms, a kitchen
(12:58):
and a coffee shop.
On February 21st, the LA CountyCoroner's Office announced that
Elisa's cause of death was dueto accidental drowning, with
bipolar disorder as asignificant factor leading to
her death.
The Full Corners report wasreleased the following June and
stated that Elisa's body hadbeen found nude and that
clothing, much like the clothingthat she was seen wearing in
(13:21):
the elevator surveillancefootage, was found floating near
her in the water.
Her watch and room key werefound in the water near her as
well.
However, her phone still hasnever been found, so that's
pretty weird.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
That is weird.
I mean you can't rule out justbecause it obviously was bipolar
to a certain extent, butsomebody must have came upon the
body to steal the phone One.
So I don't know if someone tookadvantage of her condition and
maybe there was some foul play.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Well, and it gets more strange as we continue.
So her body was bloated andmoderately decomposed when found
and medical examiners notedthat no evidence of physical
trauma had been found on her.
Toxicology results confirmed avery minimal amount of alcohol
was found in her system and onlysmall amounts of prescription
(14:19):
meds consistent with those foundin her room.
No recreational drugs of anykind were found in her results.
So now that that it has beenconfirmed how Lisa Liam died,
the question that was really oneveryone's mind is how this
young, petite 21-year-old womangot into the tank in the first
(14:39):
place.
How did she get into thesetanks?
First, she would have had toaccess the roof where the tanks
were located, and accessibilityto the rooftop was no easy task.
The doors and stairs that giveaccess to the hotel's rooftop
are locked, allowing only hotelstaff to enter these areas,
having to first enter passwordsor obtain a key.
(15:01):
Any kind of attempt to forceentry into this area would have
set off an alarm.
Reports state that the hotel'sfire escape may have been the
only way to access the rooftopand bypass these security
measures.
Police sent dogs had picked upher scent that ended next to a
window that connected to thefire escape.
So I guess it is possible thatshe went out the window and onto
(15:25):
the fire escape, but then itgets even harder from there to
access these tanks.
So many internet sleuths havefound the circumstances
obviously surrounding Elisa'sdeath as incredibly suspicious,
and personally I do too.
I find it very odd.
She would have had to make itto the roof, bypassing all the
security measures, beforeclimbing a 10-foot ladder just
(15:49):
to get to the tanks.
And all four of the cylindertanks were about 4 by 8 feet or
1.2 by 2.4 centimeters and werepropped up on top of concrete
blocks.
Workers actually had to drainthe tank and cut it open just to
remove Elisa's body because themaintenance hatch was too small
(16:12):
for workers to utilize theequipment necessary to get her
out.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
So you're saying, to get her in there, I mean it
would have had to have takensomebody that knew how to open
them, and I mean, of course,there's no way that she would
have known how to do that.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
It just seems like a lot of trouble.
Personally, and I don't know,from what I've read, I don't
feel like maybe she was suicidal, but I feel like either someone
killed her and put her intothat tank or she was just having
such a manic episode that maybeshe didn't even realize that
(16:50):
she was getting into a watertank.
I don't know.
It just seems like a lot.
So even if she bypassedsecurity measures, accessed the
roof, climbed a ladder to thetop of one of those tanks, she
would then have to lift theheavy lid to get inside, and I
will post pics of these tanksjust so you can kind of see what
(17:11):
we're talking about.
There's also the fact that shewas undressed, which raises a
lot of unanswered questions.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
There just seems like there are so many red flags
there, I mean it would have totake somebody that was skilled
and knew about these tanks.
Usually, if it's a like a crimeof convenience, like oh wow,
this lady, they didn't knowexactly what was going on and
was really annoying a lot of thepeople at the hotel, I could
see that causing a crime againsther of some sort, but with most
(17:42):
crimes they want to get in andout of there, I mean so that
they're not caught.
Whoever did this really tookthe time to hide the body and I
mean, wow, there's just seemslike so much more to the story.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Yeah, and if in fact it was foul play and that's
where everyone is kind ofquestioning.
You know a lot, because it's alot for one person to do to get
up there and do all that andlift these heavy lids and just
crawl inside.
I don't know, but she couldhave been having a manic episode
, like we said.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Well, yes, and I mean and I don't want to discount
that because, seeing that video,of course something was going
on mentally for her,unfortunately.
But this I mean from whatyou're describing, heather
Heather, there's so much morethat took place.
It's not like she would havethis manic episode and then just
have, like this brute strengthto do all these.
(18:37):
This is a petite woman.
I definitely think that therewas some kind of foul play there
and I hope that the policefurther investigated this
because, manic episode or not,there's no way she could have
done all of that.
This would have taken days tokind of figure out and someone
that be very strategic about.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Well, and even if she was having a manic episode and
having hallucinations, there arepeople out there, unfortunately
, that are the type of peoplethat would see a young woman
like that having an episode andtake full advantage of that and
it's sad but that's apossibility.
I really feel like that's nottoo far-fetched considering.
(19:19):
But the complete informationfrom the autopsy report is just
one of a slew of questions thatremain.
Was a rape kit and fingernailanalysis even conducted, and the
autopsy report mentions poolingof blood in her anal area which
could suggest a sexual assault.
However, it was also noted byat least one pathologist that
(19:42):
this could be the result frombloating during the body's state
of decompensation.
Another question that seems togo without answers is the fact
that scent dogs never picked upElisa's scent when searching the
roof of the hotel.
That's strange too, so are wesaying there was no rape kit?
(20:04):
No rape kit was conducted, nofingernail analysis was either.
That probably could have toldus a lot right there.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
That is a huge red flag.
I don't understand why thatwouldn't, especially if there
was the pooling of blood likethat and that is a known cause
or indication that there mayhave been a rape.
So any reasoning why thatwasn't conducted the rape kit.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I have not found anything that states why that
wasn't conducted.
I don't know if it's asituation where she had been in
water for so long.
You know, I really don't know.
I find it very odd that theywouldn't do a rape kit, and I
understand that the pooling ofblood in the anal area could
also be from bloating duringdecomp, but it could also be
(20:47):
from sexual assault.
So I'm not sure why they didn'tproceed with all of that.
So theories of every kind beginflooding the internet into what
could have happened to Elisa.
One was that Elisa wasfrantically trying to get the
elevator door to shut in orderto get away from someone who may
have been following her.
(21:09):
Others suggested that thesurveillance video had been
tampered with and that parts ofthe video had been slowed down
and one minute of footage hadbeen removed in order to protect
the identity of whoever wasafter her.
Some online sleuths took theirtheories and suspicions to a
whole nother level, suggestingparanormal activity Theories
(21:29):
into the video surveillancefootage of Elisa in the elevator
suggested that she may havebeen playing what is called the
Korean elevator game, in whichpressing the elevator suggested
that she may have been playingwhat is called the Korean
elevator game in which pressingthe elevator buttons in a
specific pattern would open aportal to another dimension.
Others thought thecircumstances surrounding
Elisa's death were an uncannycomparison to the 2005 horror
(21:52):
film Dark Water, in which amother and daughter move into a
rundown apartment building wherea faulty elevator and
discolored water coming from theapartment's faucets eventually
lead them to the building's roof, where they search the water
tank and find the body of amissing girl, whoa that sounds
very similar.
(22:14):
I'd kind of now want to watchthis movie, yeah that's
incredibly uncanny, especiallybecause this isn't the type of
thing that you would normallysee A girl deceased in a water
tank on the rooftop of a hotel,inside water tanks that's not
something that is of the norm.
It is strange that it was in amovie in 2005 and then you know,
(22:38):
and then this happens yearslater.
But many theorists delved intothe dark history surrounding
that of the Cecil Hotel, whichfirst opened its doors in 1927
and is known as one of the mosthaunted properties in LA.
One of the most hauntedproperties in LA.
Elizabeth Short, also referredto as the Black Dahlia, was
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reportedly seen having a drinkin the hotel bar just days
before her murder.
And for those who may beunfamiliar with that case,
elizabeth Short was a22-year-old aspiring actress who
was found viciously murderedand mutilated in Los Angeles on
January 15, 1947.
The media named her the BlackDahlia because of her preference
for black clothing.
So more than Cecil Hotel's darkhistory included serial killer
(23:28):
Richard Ramirez, also known asthe Night Stalker, and it was
reported that in 1985, he livedon the top floor of the hotel
during his killing spree.
According to reports, afterRamirez committed a murder, he
would dump his blood-soakedclothes outside the hotel and
return to his room half naked,and apparently no one batted an
(23:50):
eye to this kind of behaviorback then.
Then, in 1991, austrian serialkiller Jack Unterweger, also
known as the Vienna Strangler,also resided in the Cecil Hotel,
and the hotel itself has seenmore than a dozen murders and
suicides in and around theproperty since it opened and the
(24:12):
Cecil Hotel were two propertiesthat had different lobbies and
entrances.
They both still shared the sameelevators, making the video
footage of Elisa on the elevatoreven creepier.
She acted as if she was hidingfrom someone, and who was she
making those hand gestures towhen she stepped off the
elevator?
Unfortunately, we may neverlearn the answer to that.
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In september 2013, elisa'sparents filed a wrongful death
lawsuit against the hotel,claiming that they failed to
inspect hazards that posed apotential danger to elisa as
well as other guests at thehotel.
They seeked to obtainunspecified damages as well as
burial costs.
The Cecil Hotel argued thatthey had no way of foreseeing
that Elisa would have enteredone of their water tanks and,
(25:01):
because of the fact thatinvestigators could not
determine how Elisa got into thetank, the case was dismissed,
and this had to be yet anothermajor blow to her family.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
It's just so sad for this to happen in general, well,
yeah, that they've closed thecase.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
And then you know her parents are trying to file a
wrongful death lawsuit againstthe hotel.
I get that the hotel hadabsolutely no way of knowing
that she was going to make herway up there and end up in one
of the tanks.
But maybe there should be alock on those lids so that you
can't do that.
Another theory that some onlinesleuths had was the possibility
(25:43):
that this could have been aninside job by a maintenance
worker or someone on the staffthat had access to those
security measures and would havebeen able to lift that lid.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
I kind of feel like that that is a very big
possibility because it has to besomebody, I guess, in my
opinion, that would know how toget through all the security
measures and be able to liftthose lids.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Well, yeah, that would be a really easy
explanation.
And then it kind of goes backto what I said earlier, the
theory that what if hotel staffsaw her behaving erratically and
then they took it uponthemselves to take advantage of
that?
She ends up dead.
Again, I don't like tospeculate, but right now that's
(26:31):
kind of all we really have.
I know that the medicalexaminer has already stated that
she died of accidental drowningand that it was all it all
stemmed from her bipolardisorder.
But so many people aren'tstopping at that and I'm I guess
I'm one of those people.
I don't think that it was justsimply her having an episode and
(26:53):
ending up somewhere like that.
Having an episode and ending upsomewhere like that, but
everything that she would havehad to do to get up to those
cylinder tanks and lift thatheavy lid and get inside, that's
a lot and that's really hard toswallow.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
No, I totally agree.
Yes to me in that video andwith what you had described,
that it was a bipolar episode.
But so many times,unfortunately, people take
advantage of that, as I had saidearlier as well.
Usually they're looking for acrime of convenience.
So that doesn't look to me likevery convenient.
(27:31):
But I also feel like it had tobe somebody that knew kind of
the lay of the hotel and thatthe water tanks were even up
there.
So it's very odd to me that itcouldn't be an addition.
So we knew she had the episode,but this is an addition to that
(27:51):
.
Someone obviously tookadvantage of her.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I really feel like that too.
Elisa Lam was an avid bloggergoing by the username Nivelle
Niveau on Tumblr and, as of thisdate, her account still exists
and all the posts are stillthere.
According to reports, after herdeath, her Tumblr blog had been
updated through what we canonly assume to be Tumblr's
(28:15):
automatic queue option thatallows posts to publish
themselves automatically ininstances where the account user
is away.
Despite all the suspicions andtheories that surround the death
of Elisa Lam, one thing remainscertain Her family, her friends
and everyone who loved her willforever have that void that
(28:36):
only Elisa could fill.
The harsh reality that they maynever know for sure what
exactly happened on that fatefulday is more than any family
should have to bear.
As of today, elisa's case hasbeen closed.
However, if you have anyinformation into her case, I
would urge you to contact theLos Angeles Police Department's
(28:59):
non-emergency number at areacode 877-ASK-LAPD, that's
1-877-275-5273.
Thank you for listening toanother episode of Gone in a
Blink.
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