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Episode 88 - The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In March 2013 college student Elisa Lam checked into The Cecil Hotel on LA’s infamous skid row. Soon she started displaying some odd behaviour; some of which was caught on CCTV - this footage then went viral on the internet after Elisa’s body was found 3 weeks later in a water tank on the roof of the hotel. Forums still buzz with theories about what really happened to Elisa.

Was it murder? Suicide? An accident? The paranormal? Or a hit?


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0:00.0

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0:17.0

I'm Hannah, I'm Sramruti and welcome to this week's Redhanded where once again we're not under the duvet.

0:23.0

In our bedrooms, we're in Los Angeles this time and Sramruti is sitting right next to me in real life.

0:29.0

And we're not under a duvet though in this heat I think I would actually expire if we tried to.

0:35.0

But yeah, don't get used to this Hannah, we're in a very nice studio in Los Angeles.

0:39.0

You're doing it? You're telling me not to get used to it?

0:41.0

Like we're married.

0:42.0

Don't get used to this kind of treatment.

0:44.0

We'll be back under the duvet next week.

0:46.0

Yeah, I will.

0:47.0

I will. In my box.

0:49.0

And you'll like it.

0:50.0

We're in LA because we went on a harm-and-town last night and if you're listening to this on the day of release,

0:57.0

it would all be out.

0:58.0

Because it's not for a week.

1:00.0

Yeah. So called the cardigan with cardigan with star poles.

1:05.0

We'll put the link in the episode description.

1:07.0

We've been doing some LA stuff. We almost died of heat exhaustion yesterday because we're stupid.

1:12.0

So we decided that we were going to go and go look at the Hollywood sign because obviously we are tourists.

1:19.0

And you need to go do that kind of thing.

1:21.0

But what we didn't realize is that you can literally just get an Uber to the Hollywood sign and you end up in quite a nice little park with a water fountain and loads of dogs and all that shit.

1:32.0

And you can just sit and look at the Hollywood sign.

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