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Timesuck with Dan Cummins

29 - The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.721.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2017

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

On February 1st, 2013, 21 year old Canadian college student Elisa Lam vanished while staying at the Cecil hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Her nude, decomposing body isn't found until the morning of February 19th, after hotel residents complain of foul-tasting water. A strange, four minute hotel elevator camera video capturing the last moments she's ever seen alive goes viral, and a murder mystery is born that has the internet obsessed to this day over what really happened. Find out what conclusion I come to on today's Timesuck.

Transcript

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On February 1, 2013, 21-year-old Canadian college student Alisa Lamb vanishes while staying

0:06.9

at the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, California.

0:10.1

In an attempt to locate her, the LAPD releases the last known footage of Alisa security camera

0:16.0

footage taken from the hotel's elevator.

0:18.4

Alisa's behavior in this footage is strange to say the least.

0:22.8

And because of how strange it is, the clip makes its way online, goes viral, and has been

0:27.2

viewed almost 20 times as of today.

0:30.1

I've watched it numerous times myself the last couple of days, and Alisa's behavior,

0:34.5

in light of what happened to her with an hour's of the footage, is a little chilling.

0:39.7

Two weeks after her disappearance, Alisa still has them found, and now, hotel Cecil

0:44.7

guests are complaining about low water pressure and brown water seeping out of their taps.

0:51.3

And then, on the morning of February 19, two and a half weeks after disappearing, Alisa's

0:56.6

body is discovered by Cecil Hotel employee Santiago Lopez.

1:01.2

When he decides to check the hotel's water tanks to solve the recent water-related problems,

1:06.7

and he does solve the problem.

1:07.7

He finds out what's plug in the pipes, and tainting the water supply, Alisa's nude decomposing

1:14.0

body floating in a rooftop water tank.

1:18.5

Several months later, the corner rules the cause of death is accidental drowning.

1:23.6

But was it an accident?

1:25.3

How did she get on the roof in the first place?

1:27.6

It wasn't easy.

1:29.4

Why would she climb into an enclosed rooftop water tank?

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