Welcome to You Can't Make This Up, a companion podcast for Netflix's original true crime stories.

I'm Rebecca Lervoy, your host. Each episode we take a close up look at a true crime narrative documentary or series and I talked to the people who made them

Diving deep into the backstories and getting answers to questions raised by what we just watched

This week Emmy winning an Academy Award nominated filmmaker

Joe Burlinger returns to the show. He joins me to discuss the first season of

his new series, Crime Scene, The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel.

A note to listeners, this episode contains spoilers, so make sure to watch the entire series and then come back and listen on.

For nearly a century, the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles has been linked to some of the city's most notorious activity,

from untimely deaths to housing serial killers.

In 2013, college student Elisa Lamb vanished while staying as a guest at the hotel.

Her disappearance ignited a media frenzy that mobilize a global community of

internet sloths eager to solve the case. Crime scene, the vanishing at the

Cecil Hotel is a four-part series that retraces Lamb's story and offers a chilling and captivating lens into

one of LA's most nefarious settings.

A hotel with a notorious past is the site of another bizarre case.

The Lisa Lamb from Vancouver, Canada is missing.

The big unanswered question is, where is she?

The last footage that we have of her was inside the elevator.

That's where the case starts to go askew.

She kept looking outside the door.

Why is the elevator not going anywhere?

Is someone keeping her here?

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