185: Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel: Part 2

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🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This is part 2 of our 2-part coverage. For episode 1, please see last week's episode!

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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0:00.0	Sometimes you just need to get away.
0:02.8	And for the Aglewall family, it was well over June.
0:05.5	They wanted to know exactly what they were getting,
0:08.0	like knowing their kids stay and eat a delicious breakfast for free.
0:11.6	Yes!
0:12.6	And no need to look heavy bags, with free parking at over 500 hotels.
0:17.4	Enjoy the same feeling whatever the trip.
0:19.8	Creme it in, rest easy.
0:21.9	Only available to book at cremierin.com.
0:24.5	Season C's apply, of two kids stay and eat breakfast free with a full paying adult.
0:29.9	The thing I love most about covering this with you is that we are being both of us are true authentic selves.
0:34.7	You are caring and passionate, and you really care about victims' rights, and I'm trash.
0:39.4	I want to believe every conspiracy theory.
0:41.8	I want to take my video camera and go to the sea soul and find her room and walk the stairs.
0:45.8	I'm trash.
0:46.5	Look, you were so in it that I came back from throwing water on my face and getting a refill of water.
0:51.1	And you were like, ooh, someone has her hair up.
0:52.7	I was like, I've had my hair up this whole time, and you were like, I'm too scared to make direct eye contact with you.
0:57.8	It's true.
0:58.7	Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
1:00.3	Oh, hey Patrick Hines.
1:10.5	Welcome back to the sea soul hotel, everybody.
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