Netflix is continuing our true crime obsession with the brand new docuseries “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel.” The mysterious case focuses on a Canadian student, Elisa Lam, who went missing at the Cecil Hotel in 2013.
Weeks after being reported, her body was discovered inside a water tank on the roof of the Los Angeles hotel. Even though the location of her body seemed odd. It was the security camera footage of Lam that spurred internet sleuths and true crime junkies to take notice. Even today there are still many unanswered questions surrounding her death.
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“From director Joe Berlinger (CONVERSATIONS WITH A KILLER: THE TED BUNDY TAPES), “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel” is the first season in a new documentary series that deconstructs the mythology and mystery surrounding infamous locations in contemporary crime.
For nearly a century the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles has been linked to some of the city’s most notorious activity, from untimely deaths to housing serial killers. In 2013 college student Elisa Lam was staying at the Cecil when she vanished, igniting a media frenzy and mobilizing a global community of internet sleuths eager to solve the case. Lam’s disappearance, the latest chapter in the hotel’s complex history, offers a chilling and captivating lens into one of LA’s most nefarious settings.”
You can check out the trailer for “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel” below and the new season will hit Netflix on February 10, 2021. Be sure to follow ScaryNerd for more of all things horror.
