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True Crime Obsessed

184: Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.234.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Can a building be evil? (Gillian: “NO, IT’S JUST A BUILDING!”). Can web sleuths solve a truly bizarre death? (Patrick: “NO! GET OFF FACEBOOK AND GO. OUT. SIDE.). And what exactly is a hotel general manager’s job? (Patrick and Gillian: (“UNCLEAR!”) Welcome to the Cecil Hotel—a once grand hotel which rotted from the inside and became a place where “dreams go to die” and “serial killers let their hair down.”

Elisa Lam knew none of that, of course, when she checked in on January 28, 2013. She went missing a few days later. And two weeks after that, out of desperation to find her, the LAPD released the now infamous “elevator video” of her which set the internet ablaze. Join us and the investigators and internet…sleuths?...as we all try to put together the pieces of her disappearance and death. And I promise, we land on an answer as to what happened to her.

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Do you know that Ron Howard has involved in this? He's one of the executive producers.

0:33.6

Brian Grazer? Is that Brian Grazer's name in there?

0:36.4

In my head, there was a phone call that went like this and it was Ron Howard calling Tom Hanks to be like,

0:40.6

Tom, I got to pitch you this thing. And Tom was like, I want no part of this.

0:45.6

This is not a play-tone production. Rita says, no, I'm walking Ron, you're on your own.

0:50.6

And Tom Hanks, as always, made the right decision.

1:01.6

Look, before I even say our names, I'm going to say I'm trash because I love to

1:06.4

every second of this documentary. I know everybody in my life that I love and respect hated this,

1:10.8

and I loved all four. I kept waiting to hate it, never happened.

1:14.3

And now I loved every second of it.

1:16.2

So my goal by the end of this is to bring you to my side, because I hated it.

1:20.0

I think it's irresponsible. I think Netflix should be like held to task for it.

1:23.9

Like, let's go. We're on opposite sides of this one big time.

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