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The Mystery of Elisa Lam (:eek:)
The Mystery of Elisa Lam
Here's a summary for those unfamiliar with this case ( source):
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Elisa Lam, a 21-year-old Canadian-Asian student, was staying at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles at the time of her death in January 2013 – a budget hotel with some 600 guest rooms, which was built in 1927 and only partially refurbished in 2007. The Cecil Hotel, as most reports hasten to mention, was at one time home to serial killer Richard Ramirez, a.k.a. The Nightstalker, and at another to fellow serial killer Jack Unterweger. It was also allegedly the last place butchered actress Elizabeth Short, a.k.a. The Black Dahlia, was seen before her grisly – and still unsolved – murder in 1947. For those who have an appetite for the macabre, there is also a murder on the premises and at least three documented suicides.
And then there is the deadly recent tuberculosis outbreak just a few blocks from the site of Lam’s death, where, in a bizarre coincidence, the test kit used was called the LAM-ELISA.
Her body was discovered after residents at the hotel began to complain that their water tasted foul and had an unusual colour; it turned out Lam’s corpse had been lying in a water supply tank on the roof of the hotel for some two weeks, contaminating the water.
Lam was found dead in the water tank by a maintenance worker. Her death was ruled as accidental by drowning. Her drug tests came back negative and there was no evidence of foul play or visible trauma on her body.
There were, however, some nagging questions. The first was how on earth Lam got onto the roof. Access to the roof was barricaded throughout (although there was a fire escape) and the entire rooftop area was protected by an alarm. The water tanks themselves were so difficult to access that workers had to cut the tank open to remove her body. The lids of the water tanks are so heavy, furthermore, that it is likely impossible one person could have moved them. How, then, did Lam get into the tank and then replace the lid behind her?
And then there’s the mystery person who updated her blog six months after her death.
There is also the last known “sighting” of her, which is footage of her captured on the hotel security camera. In the first week it was uploaded in China alone, it was watched over three million times.
According to Lam’s blog, her suffering due to bipolar disorder was severe, but she was coping well on her meds, which included Wellbutrin and Lamictil. She mentioned a relapse, but not in detail. She spoke about having been raped at one time, and surviving it. She spoke about her condition matter-of-factly and often with a firm dose of gallows humour.
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Scary stuff. What do you hunties think happened to Miss Lam? Something supernatural? The US government? Lady Gaga?
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