Post by Admin on Apr 20, 2016 10:57:29 GMT
Cecil Hotel, Skid Row, Los Angeles, California.
It was noticed that she was missing on the 31st of January, 2013 by her parents. She kept in touch with them while she was on her trip (San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz and San Francisco). They noticed that she did not contact them on that day. However, she probably did not go missing until the 1st of February. Some time after her disappearance, hotel guests started complaining about low water pressure, a foul taste in the water, etc. Her body was discovered on the 19th of February, same year, inside one of the four 3,785 L water tanks on the rooftop of the hotel (Hotel Cecil).
Feb 14, LAPD releases a surveillance video from the hotel's elevator. It depicts of Lam's "weird" behavior.
"In the two-and-a-half minute clip, the camera at one of the elevator cab's rear corners looks down from the ceiling, offering a view not just of its interior but the hallway outside. It is somewhat grainy, and the timestamp at the bottom is obscured. At some points Lam's mouth is pixelized.
At the start, Lam enters, clad in a red zippered hooded sweatshirt over a gray T-shirt, with black shorts and sandals. She enters from the left and goes to the control panel, appears to select several floors and then steps back to the corner. After a few seconds during which the door fails to close, she steps up to it, leans forward so her head is through the door, looks in both directions, and then quickly steps back in, backing up to the wall and then into the corner near the control panel. The door remains open.
She walks to it again and stands in the doorway, leaning on the side. Suddenly she steps out into the hall, then to her side, back in, looking to the side, then back out. She then steps sideways again, and for a few seconds she is mostly invisible behind the wall she has her back to just outside. The door remains open.
Her right arm can be seen going up to her head, and then she turns to re-enter the cab, putting both hands on the side of the door as she does. She goes to the control panel, presses many more buttons, some more than once, and then returns to the wall she had come into the elevator from, putting both hands over her ears again briefly as she walks back to the section of wall she had been standing against before. The door remains open.
She turns to her right and begins rubbing her forearms together, then waves her hands out to her sides with palms flat and fingers outstretched, while bowing forward slightly and rocking gently. This can all be seen through the door, which remains open. After she backs to the wall again and walks away to the left, it finally closes." - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elisa_Lam#Elevator_video
"After being removed from the tank, Lam's body was taken to the county coroner's office to be autopsied. Two pathologists, Jason Tovar and Yulai Wang, spent four hours that afternoon dissecting it and examining her internal organs. On February 21, the coroner's office reported that they had found her death to be an accidental drowning, with bipolar disorder as a significant factor.
Their full report was released four months later, in June, after being postponed several times. They reported that her body had been found naked in the tank, about half to three-quarters full, with the clothes she appeared to have been wearing in the elevator video floating in the water alongside her, coated with a "sand-like particulate". Along with them were her watch and room key.
Lam's body was moderately decomposed, bloated and mostly greenish, with some marbling evident on the abdomen and skin separation evident. Tovar and Wang had a rape and fingernail kit done, but found no evidence of physical trauma or sexual assault. They found no evidence to suggest that Lam had committed suicide.
Toxicology tests were done on her blood where a sufficient quantity was available. Some metabolites and traces of her prescription medication were found, consistent with blister packs and loose pills of those drugs found among her belongings, along with some nonprescription drugs such as Sinutab and ibuprofen. No alcohol or recreational drugs were found in her system." - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elisa_Lam#Autopsy
It was noticed that she was missing on the 31st of January, 2013 by her parents. She kept in touch with them while she was on her trip (San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz and San Francisco). They noticed that she did not contact them on that day. However, she probably did not go missing until the 1st of February. Some time after her disappearance, hotel guests started complaining about low water pressure, a foul taste in the water, etc. Her body was discovered on the 19th of February, same year, inside one of the four 3,785 L water tanks on the rooftop of the hotel (Hotel Cecil).
Feb 14, LAPD releases a surveillance video from the hotel's elevator. It depicts of Lam's "weird" behavior.
"In the two-and-a-half minute clip, the camera at one of the elevator cab's rear corners looks down from the ceiling, offering a view not just of its interior but the hallway outside. It is somewhat grainy, and the timestamp at the bottom is obscured. At some points Lam's mouth is pixelized.
At the start, Lam enters, clad in a red zippered hooded sweatshirt over a gray T-shirt, with black shorts and sandals. She enters from the left and goes to the control panel, appears to select several floors and then steps back to the corner. After a few seconds during which the door fails to close, she steps up to it, leans forward so her head is through the door, looks in both directions, and then quickly steps back in, backing up to the wall and then into the corner near the control panel. The door remains open.
She walks to it again and stands in the doorway, leaning on the side. Suddenly she steps out into the hall, then to her side, back in, looking to the side, then back out. She then steps sideways again, and for a few seconds she is mostly invisible behind the wall she has her back to just outside. The door remains open.
Her right arm can be seen going up to her head, and then she turns to re-enter the cab, putting both hands on the side of the door as she does. She goes to the control panel, presses many more buttons, some more than once, and then returns to the wall she had come into the elevator from, putting both hands over her ears again briefly as she walks back to the section of wall she had been standing against before. The door remains open.
She turns to her right and begins rubbing her forearms together, then waves her hands out to her sides with palms flat and fingers outstretched, while bowing forward slightly and rocking gently. This can all be seen through the door, which remains open. After she backs to the wall again and walks away to the left, it finally closes." - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elisa_Lam#Elevator_video
"After being removed from the tank, Lam's body was taken to the county coroner's office to be autopsied. Two pathologists, Jason Tovar and Yulai Wang, spent four hours that afternoon dissecting it and examining her internal organs. On February 21, the coroner's office reported that they had found her death to be an accidental drowning, with bipolar disorder as a significant factor.
Their full report was released four months later, in June, after being postponed several times. They reported that her body had been found naked in the tank, about half to three-quarters full, with the clothes she appeared to have been wearing in the elevator video floating in the water alongside her, coated with a "sand-like particulate". Along with them were her watch and room key.
Lam's body was moderately decomposed, bloated and mostly greenish, with some marbling evident on the abdomen and skin separation evident. Tovar and Wang had a rape and fingernail kit done, but found no evidence of physical trauma or sexual assault. They found no evidence to suggest that Lam had committed suicide.
Toxicology tests were done on her blood where a sufficient quantity was available. Some metabolites and traces of her prescription medication were found, consistent with blister packs and loose pills of those drugs found among her belongings, along with some nonprescription drugs such as Sinutab and ibuprofen. No alcohol or recreational drugs were found in her system." - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elisa_Lam#Autopsy
