Episode 42: Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam
Guests of the Cecil Hotel started complaining about water quality issues - their tap water was brown and had a strange taste to it…
They sent a maintenance man to go check on the water tanks on the roof that only staff had a key to - as it was a restricted access area and armed.
There he found the body of Elisa Lam in one of the water tanks. She had been missing for 3 weeks. How did she get up there? Why was she in the water tanks? What about the elevator footage? Things just get stranger from here.
Source notes: (there are tons of theories of what happened in this case so you will included are a lot of links to theories / opinions and NOT actual facts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rfLSVIA0L0
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-skid-row-suicide-20150613-story.html
https://www.cnn.com/2013/02/28/us/california-water-tank-corpse-suit/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2013/02/20/us/california-hotel-water-corpse
https://www.cnn.com/2013/06/20/us/california-water-tank-death/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Hotel_(Los_Angeles)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_and_violence_at_the_Cecil_Hotel
https://www.grunge.com/334478/why-reddit-is-convinced-elisa-lam-died-of-tuberculosis/
https://decider.com/2021/02/11/did-elisa-lam-have-tuberculosis-reddit-theory-explained/
https://www.cnn.com/2013/02/21/us/california-hotel-water-corpse/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/14/entertainment/cecil-hotel-netflix-trnd/index.html
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/10/31/questions-remain-3-years-after-womans-body-was-found-inside-la-hotels-rooftop-water-tank/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elisa-lam-case-autopsy-fails-to-find-a-cause-of-death-for-woman-found-in-los-angeles-water-tank/
https://www.cnn.com/2013/02/21/us/california-horror-hotel/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elisa-lam-death-officials-analyze-water-in-tank-where-missing-canadian-woman-was-found-dead/
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/official-woman-accidentally-drowned-in-la-hotel-water-tank/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elisa-lam-death-body-of-missing-canadian-tourist-found-in-la-hotel-water-tank-police-say/
http://etherfields.blogspot.com/2010/06/qui-est.html
https://medium.com/@jddean/elisa-lam-s-autopsy-report-98c3ec03c309
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/american-horror-story-hotel-elisa-lam_n_55c4f87fe4b0f1cbf1e4f1d1
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/police-activity-focuses-hotel-where-missing-woman-elisa-lame/2056136/
https://www.ibtimes.com/body-elisa-lam-canadian-tourist-found-los-angeles-hotels-water-tank-1100172
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-oct-26-tr-lizzieside26-story.html
http://www.laweekly.com/elisa-lam-why-did-she-appear-to-be-acting-so-strange/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-cecil-hotel-netflix-elisa-lam-los-angeles-b1800647.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/06/20/body-in-water-tank-ruled-accidental-drowning/2443061/
https://medium.com/the-true-crime-edition/the-tragedy-of-pigeon-goldie-fdc2061c0960
https://newsfeed.time.com/2013/02/21/the-cecil-hotel-what-a-dead-body-in-a-water-tank-does-for-your-yelp-reviews/
http://etherfields.blogspot.com/2012/01/youre-always-haunted-by-idea-youre.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/3amnrx/resolved_elisa_lam_long_link_heavy/
Netflix - The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (this was used for supplemental research and not for the facts of the case)
DISCLAIMER: Some links are listed in the source material but the material may never be discussed in the podcast (I just wanted to list them because they gave me a deeper picture of the case in full). If there are un-verifiable sources (ie Reddit) - they are typically referred to as un-verified sources, opinions, and or theories in the podcast and not treated as fact.