Netflix’s Cecil hotel documentary revisits Elisa Lam’s mysterious case
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"I have arrived in Laland [sic] and there is a monstrosity of a building next to the place I'm staying," Elisa Lam wrote in January 2013. "When I say monstrosity, mind you, I'm saying as in gaudy. But then again, it was built in 1928, hence the art-deco theme. So yes, it IS classy, but then since it's LA, it went on crack."
Her disappearance further complicated by the fact that she was staying at the Cecil Hotel, a once-opulent Beaux-Arts building with a dark reputation. With more than a dozen guests ending their lives on the property and a possible victim of the night stalker, adding to the hotel’s haunted reputation.
CCTV footage of her behaving bizarrely caught the attention of online sleuths who thought it was proof of paranormal activity. At the time, the Canadian student was on a solo trip but was reported missing 5 days later, never seen alive again.
A new Netflix docuseries, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, attempts to untangle the truth from the speculation about Lam's final days, including the role the 97-year-old property may have played in her death and the conspiracy theories around it.
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