The mysterious death of 21-year old Vancouver university student Elisa Lam was ruled an accidental drowning by the Los Angeles County coroner’s office, but it’s a case that will probably go down in history as one of the eeriest unsolved mysteries on the LAPD’s books. I can’t tell you anything about the details of Miss Lam’s death that hasn’t already been covered, speculated about, and theorized at hundreds of other blogs and websites around the net, but this is a refreshingly morbid piece for this site.
Above is the actual elevator surveillance footage from LA’s somewhat infamous Cecil Hotel, where Miss Lam was staying at the time of her disappearance on January 31st of this year. It was captued just a short while before she was never seen alive again. Behaving strangely in this viral 4-minute video, she acts as if she’s hiding from and later interacting with, someone who isn’t there or, at least, wasn’t caught on camera. Also strange is the elevator doors staying open so long.
Miss Lam was reported missing on February 5th. Her body was found by hotel maintenance workers on February 19th, in one of the hotel’s rooftop water tanks, which supplies the rooms with potable water. Guest complaints of low water pressure was what prompted the maintenance workers to check the tanks.
Selected articles in chronological order:
Reported Missing
Body Found
Ruled Accidental Drowning
Cecil Guests File Lawsuit Against Hotel
Lam Family Files Lawsuit Against Hotel
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Well she is obviously not all there in the video footage, could be she was just drunk. My guess she was Bipolar and drunk and killed herself.
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How did i not hear about this case until now?
Without knowing anything beyond what I’ve just googled, I wonder if her mental condition simply made her an easy victim for somebody in the hotel. Strange the police/coroner seemed so quick to rule it accidental drowning when everything about the incident was so bizarre.
Not that appearance makes it any more or less tragic, but she was an attractive lady judging from the photos.
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I remember this case from the stories of hotel guests wondering about the lack of water pressure as well as funky odours and tastes from the tap water.
But wondering what this has to do with Asian sirens.
Perhaps a new morbid category, dead Asian sirens?
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