![]() Toxicology reports showed no substances in her body that could indicate she was high on drugs. There were no signs of struggle nor scratch marks on her body. The LAPD found her naked and floating in the water with the latch to the tank supposedly locked from the outside. There was no explanation for how a young female could end up inside a water tank on the rooftop of a fourteen-floor building. When news broke about Lam’s horrifying death, there was no doubt in my mind that there was something supernatural about the case. How could she possibly get up to the roof on her own? Was she murdered? Or was she possessed? Was the hotel haunted? ![]() ![]() When Lam went missing in 2013, the whole world was in anticipation as to what happened to the young student only to find out nineteen days later that her body was found dead in a water tank at the rooftop of the hotel, with the lid closed. One can only imagine the pain the parents endured learning the loss of their daughter. The cafe symbolized the Asian Canadian story: parents who immigrated from Asia who sacrificed long hours in their cafe to give a better life for their children, who would go onto university to achieve professional careers that the parents could never have themselves. My friend Jim Wong-Chu loved the food and even held his retirement dinner there he’d always got the same type of burger for its fresh paddy meat. It was the typical Chinese Canadian cafe, serving hamburgers and french fries alongside chow mein and sweet and sour. Her death hit close to home for me as I frequented the restaurant run by her family. Just like many who witnessed the haunting video of Elisa Lam frantically pressing the buttons wanting to escape but trapped for minutes only to gesture to the thin air as if a person is there, and then disappearing altogether from view, I watched the video numerous times during those few weeks in 2013, hunched over my computer screen with sweaty palms and rewinding endlessly the footage for clues. ![]() Through detective work, and with some assistance from internet forums, retired police detectives, coroners, and a forensic neuropsychologist, the Netflix documentary series, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, helps us find some closure to the saga. The mysterious death of Elisa Lam has been solved according to a documentary that was released in 2021. ![]()
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