The story goes that after a murder, Ramirez would dump his bloody clothes outside the hotel and return half-naked. In 1985, Richard Ramirez, also known as the “Night Stalker,” lived on the top floor of the hotel during his monstrous killing spree. The hotel has also hosted some of the country’s most notorious killers. the “Black Dahlia,” who was reportedly seen drinking at the hotel bar in the days before her grisly demise. The most famous death associated with the hotel, other than Lam’s, was the 1947 murder of actress Elizabeth Short, a.k.a. Since opening its doors in 1927, the Cecil Hotel has been plagued by 16 different non-natural deaths and unexplained paranormal events. In fact, the building’s sordid past has earned it a reputation as one of the most supposedly haunted properties in Los Angeles.
Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images Elisa Lam’s dead body was found in a water tank on the roof of the Cecil Hotel three weeks after she went missing.Įlisa Lam’s mysterious demise was not the first to happen at the Cecil Hotel. The Chilling Backstory Of The Cecil Hotel Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Howard Halm ruled that the death of Elisa Lam was “unforseeable” because it had happened in an area that guests were not allowed to access, so the lawsuit was dismissed. If it was triggered, the sound of the alarm would reach the front desk as well as the entire top two floors of the hotel. Only hotel employees would be able to deactivate the alarm properly. The hotel’s Chief Engineer Pedro Tovar also made it clear that it would be difficult for anyone to access the rooftop, where the hotel water tanks were located, without triggering the alarms. Lopez’s testimony suggested that it would have been difficult for Lam to make it to the top of the water tank on her own. “I noticed the hatch to the main water tank was open and looked inside and saw an Asian woman lying face-up in the water approximately twelve inches from the top of the tank,” Lopez said, as reported by LAist. Only after all that did he notice something unusual. Finally, he had to climb another ladder to get to the top of the main tank.
Then, he had to first turn off the rooftop alarm and climb up on the platform where the hotel’s four water tanks were located. Lopez said that he took the elevator to the 15th floor of the hotel before walking up the staircase to the roof. Santiago Lopez, who was the first to find Lam’s body, described in detail how much effort he had to exert just to find her body. The hotel’s lawyer argued that the hotel had no reason to think that someone would be able to get into one of their water tanks.īased on court statements from the hotel’s maintenance staff, the hotel’s argument is not entirely far-fetched. The hotel fought back against the suit, filing a motion to dismiss it. The Lams’ attorney stated that the hotel had a duty to “inspect and seek out hazards in the hotel that presented an unreasonable risk of danger to and other hotel guests.” Some sleuths have understandably latched onto this detail and suggested it was a likely explanation behind Lam’s strange behavior in the elevator.īlogspot Elisa Lam with a friend during graduation.ĭavid and Yinna Lam filed a wrongful death suit against the Cecil Hotel several months after their daughter’s death was uncovered. It is an important finding to note given that the use of antidepressants to treat bipolar disorder can risk inducing manic side effects if done without caution. These conclusions suggested that Lam, who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and depression, may have not been taking her medications properly. The breakdown pointed out three key observations: 1) Lam took at least one antidepressant that day 2) Lam had taken her second antidepressant and mood stabilizer recently, but not that day and 3) Lam had not taken her anti-psychotic recently. For example, one summary of Lam’s toxicology report was posted online by a Reddit sleuth with an obvious interest in medicine. Soon after the toxicology report came out, amateur sleuths began poring over any information they could find in hopes of solving the mystery behind the death of Elisa Lam. Clendenin/ Los Angeles Times Bernard Diaz, 89, a resident at the Cecil Hotel for 32 years, speaks to the press after Elisa Lam’s body was found.
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