The Cecil Hotel was built as a tourist destination but it soon served troubled or violent guests. It's been the site of deaths and disappearances, and serial killer Richard Ramirez stayed there. The ...

It’s not much — a bed with a mattress, a small nightstand, a dresser, a closet and some assorted appliances in a 160-square-foot room. Some of those rooms have bathrooms, but most don’t. Several ...

Good morning and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Monday, Aug. 28. When the historic Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles opened 600 rooms for unhoused people, its private ...

From the bed in my room at the Cecil Hotel, I see four locks on the door—a bolt, a button, two latches. Did they add the last after a 21-year-old tourist was found dead in the hotel’s water tank ...

(Spoiler alert: Do not read on if you haven’t seen Netflix’s “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel.”) Netflix’s documentary “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel” goes live on the ...

Long before the Netflix noir documentary about 21-year-old Canadian tourist Elisa Lam’s sad end at the Cecil Hotel, the landmark building in Los Angeles had a storied and often gorey past. “True-crime ...

In 2016, developers announced a major renovation planned for the historic and creepy Hotel Cecil, but the Downtown LA hotel has been gathering dust since then. That might change within a few months.

The historic Cecil Hotel, with its haunted reputation and 600 rooms, reopened in December 2021 as a privately funded permanent supportive housing project. It’s open to any of the thousands of unhoused ...

After being shuttered for four years, Downtown LA’s Hotel Cecil, the infamous site of at least a dozen deaths and cited as the inspiration for a season of American Horror Story, has quietly reopened ...

Netflix has added another true-crime series to its ever-growing roster — and it certainly has people Googling all the dark details about the hotel at the center of it. “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at ...

Something you have on your 2021 bingo card? Netflix is adding another true-crime series to its ever-growing roster. “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel,” which premiered this week, is a ...