‘The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel’ has been home to numerous mysteries which are now being explored in Netflix’s new Original Documentary from director Joe Berlinger.
It’s a story like no other. 21-year old Canadian student Elisa Lam was last seen checking into the Cecil Hotel, where she was then found dead in the Hotel’s water tank days after she was reported missing. The hotel is just as infamous as her disappearance, it being home to numerous mysteries which are now being explored in Netflix’s new original documentary.
The synopsis is as follows:
From director Joe Berlinger (CONVERSATIONS WITH A KILLER: THE TED BUNDY TAPES, PARADISE LOST), CRIME SCENE: THE VANISHING AT THE CECIL HOTEL is the first season in a new documentary series that deconstructs the mythology and mystery surrounding infamous locations in contemporary crime. For nearly a century the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles has been linked to some of the city’s most notorious activity, from untimely deaths to housing serial killers. In 2013, college student Elisa Lam was staying at the Cecil when she vanished, igniting a media frenzy and mobilizing a global community of internet sleuths eager to solve the case. Lam’s disappearance, the latest chapter in the hotel’s complex history, offers a chilling and captivating lens into one of LA’s most nefarious settings.
The disappearance has been a mainstay in reddit convos on true crime, and the last footage of her in the elevator is also available on YouTube. The CCTV footage shows her eerie moment in the elevator, which bewilders investigators and true crime fans to this day. The hotel was also home to the Night Stalker, which also has it’s own documentary on Netflix.
Catch The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel tomorrow at 4PM Philippine time on Netflix.
Elisa Lam’s blogs and social media sites are listed here –
http://elisa-lam-blogs.blogspot.com