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Her parents said she had no prior suicide attempts, though her parents were known to not disclose her history of mental illness. Lam was previously diagnosed with an extreme case of bipolar disorder and depression and was recieving treatment. The autopsy took around four months, and ended up ruling the death as an accidental drowing. But the why is always the question,” said Lolita Lopez, a NBC reporter who covered Lam’s case.

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“In 22 years plus of doing this job as a news reporter, this is one of those cases that kinda sticks with me because we know the who, what, when, where. Her body was found naked, with her clothes floating beside her body in the tank. The body was later found due to complaints by residents about foul tasting water and water pressure problems, leading Santiago Lopez, a maintenance worker at the time, to check on the water tanks at the top of the building. She eventually leaves the elevator, and the last few moments of the low quality video show her waving her hands around in various gestures as if she were talking to someone, but Lam was the only one seen on the video.

She then keeps stepping in and out of the elevator, or poking her head out as if she was supposed to be hiding from someone. The two and a half minute video shows Lam walking into the elevator and pressing all of the buttons. The hotel was searched, but nothing about Lam could be found.ĭays after, the chilling surveillence footage of one of the hotel’s elevators was released by the police.

Her parents contacted the Los Angeles Police Department and the search for Lam had started. Her parents had been worried about her whereabouts as they had not heard from her in a while. January 31 was her check out date at the hotel, but the date was not met by Lam. The famous “Black Dahlia” Elizabeth Short was spotted at the hotel days before her murder. Since it’s inception in 1924, there have been 15 technical deaths on the premises. The Cecil Hotel is infamous for having several murders and suicides prior to Lam’s death, as well as being a ground for illegal activities. Lam began her trek around California at the beginning of 2013, taking photos at the San Diego Zoo and visiting other areas prior to her stay at the Cecil Hotel. It instead reframes the case, which has often been thought of as a paranormal horror story at the haunted Cecil Hotel, as a heart wrenching tragedy about a young woman’s struggles with mental health.A Canadian student named Elisa Lam from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver was found lying face up in a water tank above the infamous Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles on Feb. In her blog posts, many of which are read in the docuseries, Lam lamented poetically and thoughtfully on loneliness and depression, often posting and reposting hundreds of notes in a day.Ĭrime Scene does not purport to solve the mystery of how Elisa Lam got up to the Cecil’s locked roof and into the water tank. There are chilling entries, such as a reposted Frida Kahlo quote, which reads 'I hope the exit is joyful-and I hope never to return,” that Lam shared on January 4, 2013, just weeks before her disappearance. The Tumblr, which she actively used as a writing outlet, is a somber look at Lam's psyche before she died.

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“I didn’t want to invent dialogue or create speculative situations, so everything she says via voiceover in the show comes directly from her online posts,” producer Joe Berlinger told TV Insider. It offers the documentary a unique, heartbreaking first-person perspective. But her Tumblr is used in Crime Scene as a window into her travels, her mind, and her mental health prior to her death. The accessibility of the blog also fueled online communities of amateur sleuths’ obsession with her case, and pored over it looking for clues about potential murderers.

During the 2013 investigation, Elisa Lam’s public Tumblr, Nouvelle-Nouveau, offered officers clues about her mental state and travels within Los Angeles in the days leading up to her disappearance.

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