Over the years, the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles has been infamous for several deaths, including suicides and murders. However, the 2013 death of Elisa Lam became internet folklore and her ...

Elisa Lam was a 21-year-old student visiting Los Angeles for the first time when she mysteriously disappeared in 2013, and was found in a water tank of the Cecil Hotel in Downtown L.A. 19 days later.

The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel is Netflix's latest true crime documentary, which looks at the events that led to student Elisa Lam's body being found in a water tank on the roof of a hotel that had ...

“I love my job. I did. You know, I worked with amazing people,” Price tells ET of her 10 years at the hotel, which was briefly re-branded as Stay on Main during her tenure. “Unfortunately, a lot of ...

If you watch enough true crime documentaries on streaming platforms, you start to notice a template emerging. There are the moodily lit reenactments, complete with perky voiceovers from the victim’s ...

Lam was last seen on Jan. 31, 2013. Authorities found Lam’s body in a water tank on top of the Cecil Hotel on Feb. 19, 2013. Allegedly, the tank was behind locked, alarmed doors. But the evidence ...

Spoiler alert: Major plot details revealed within. It’s one of the more indelible and eerie moments in internet video history: A girl in a red hoodie walks into an empty elevator and presses the ...

Lam is the focus of the true crime documentary on Netflix. She was a 21-year-old tourist who traveled to LA in 2013. She rented a room in the Cecil Hotel for a few days, but Lam never checked out. Lam ...

A new Netflix true-crime docuseries dives into the history of downtown Los Angeles' Cecil Hotel and the mysterious case of a Canadian tourist who was found dead in the hotel's rooftop water tank in ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. In new court documents, the Cecil ...

There's something about an eerie hotel that's even creepier than a haunted house. Maybe it's the idea that a place created to prioritize your comfort could be hiding a sinister underbelly. In any case ...

In its fourth and final episode, “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel” finally gets to its point. After three episodes of unpacking the mysterious disappearance of Elisa Lam, the infamous ...