The hotel seems acceptable and its prices are low for visitors to Los Angeles, USA, but once you enter it, you cannot be guaranteed a safe exit. It is the Cecil Hotel, which was often fraught with mystery.

Netflix relays part of his story in the documentary "Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel".

The walls of the Cecil Hotel witnessed a series of horrific events that included murders, missing persons, suicides, and deaths from drug overdoses, the most recent of which was the disappearance of a Canadian girl named Elisa Lam in 2013, and her case exposed the black history of this hotel.

3 days

In 2012, when the events of the series began, Elisa - who was 21 at the time - was at her home in Vancouver, Canada, when she decided to create an account on the Tumblr site, and to share some of her ideas and what she feels about confusion in her life and her desire to travel Away for a while.

And Elisa really began to search for a job to collect travel costs, then persuade her parents, and then finally determine her destination, a tour of the American West Coast that included San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz and San Francisco.

When the time came to visit Los Angeles, Elisa - a daughter of Chinese immigrants - chose to spend her vacation at the Cecil Hotel, which fits her meager budget, and only 3 days after her arrival, she disappeared and had no effect at all.

Blurry and vague

On February 1, 2013, the police began suspending notices announcing the loss of Elisa and reporting if she was seen, and investigations began to disappear, and her story became blurry before it was explicitly turned into an ambiguous image.

While a maintenance worker was trying to solve the hotel guests' problems of low pressure and changing water coming out of their room faucets, he discovered the shocking truth behind it;

It is Elisa's body, which they found installed in one of the water tanks on the roof of the 19-storey hotel.

Her last appearance, before her death, was in the elevator of the Cecil Hotel, whose camera caught her last moment, as she appeared acting strangely in front of her with a person whose features did not appear, after which the police published this clip, which made her case one of the most obsessively followed by people in this century.

This Cecil Hotel series on @netflix is ​​so compelling.

Very sad, too.

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- Brody 🎙🎧💻 (@brodyradio) February 20, 2021

This discovery was the latest chapter in the dark history of the "Cecil Hotel", and although forensic medicine considered that her death was "accidental", the strange circumstances surrounding her disappearance did not escape from the minds of true crime amateurs who began to track the incident and analyze her to solve this confusing mystery.

To answer these questions, the series featured interviews with a former hotel manager and former residents, retired LAPD homicide investigators, historians and amateur investigators on social media, who until now remain obsessed with the case.

In the span of 10 years, at least 80 people died at The Cecil Hotel.

Missing persons, overdoses, and murders happened over and over - but why?

Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel is now streaming pic.twitter.com/EDEBBXChbL

- Netflix (@netflix) February 10, 2021

Some began accusing the "Los Angeles" police officers, and accusing one of them of participating in this crime, and some believed that a person from the "Cecil Hotel" - which the series describes as "the place where thugs relax" - was involved in the accident and helped to hide it .

While the mystery appears to be solved by the end of the series, many questions remain about what really happened on that fateful night when Elisa disappeared.

Black history

It is worth noting that besides the story of Elisa's disappearance, there is another shocking fact

Namely, serial killer Richard Ramirez - nicknamed "The Night Tracker" who killed 13 people - was staying at the Cecil Hotel while carrying out his horrific crimes in the summer of 1985.

He also stayed at Cecil, journalist Jacques Unterwiger, who was working on covering Los Angeles crimes for an Austrian magazine in 1991, and was later accused of murdering 3 women while he was in the hotel.

During the fifties and sixties of the last century, many hotel guests killed themselves by jumping from the windows of the upper floor, and among them was a woman who fell on a man who was walking on the street, and both died on the spot.

The series is produced by Ron Howard and directed by American Joe Berlinger, and among his works is the documentary "Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes" which tells the story of Ted Bundy, one of the most famous serial killers in America, who killed 30 A woman before his arrest in 1978.