Elisa Lam took a solo trip to Los Angeles, California in late January 2013  and found herself staying at the Cecil Hotel- a historic, yet run down hotel in one of America's roughest neighborhoods. Only days into her trip, she mysteriously disappears and her family reports her missing shortly after.

The search for the 21-year-old Canadian tourist results in one of the most captivating missing person's cases in recent history. Theories about what happened to Elisa revolve around a mysterious surveillance video from inside an elevator at the Cecil Hotel which shows a distressed Elisa acting erratically. This video ends up being the last footage of her ever captured.

This is the twisted story of that surveillance footage, the discovery of Elisa's body and the tragic series of events that took place that January night- which still leaves more questions than answers. 

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EPISODE RESOURCES:

Netflix Canada: Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. 

Elisa Lam Elevator Footage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvGMmzSGfQ8 

BBC News. Elisa Lam: What really happened in the Cecil Hotel. By Michael Baggs. February 11, 2021.
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-55994935 

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