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The Prestige TV Podcast

How Ethical Is 'The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel'?

The Prestige TV Podcast

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Amelia Wedemeyer and Claire McNear pose a few questions about the ethics of 'Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel,' a Netflix true crime series that chronicles the disappearance of Elisa Lam. Hosts: Amelia Wedemeyer and Claire McNear Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:05.0

A Lisa Lamb from Vancouver, Canada is missing.

0:10.0

The big unanswered question is, where is she?

0:14.0

The last footage that we have over was inside the elevator.

0:18.0

That's where the case starts to go askew.

0:22.0

She kept looking outside the door.

0:23.8

Why is the elevator not going anywhere?

0:26.2

Is someone keeping her here?

0:27.6

Her hand movements are very strange and erratic.

0:30.6

Like, she's conjuring a spirit.

0:33.2

It makes people wonder, is there something evil going on here?

0:39.3

It just blew up. In the web sleuth community, it created this feeding frenzy.

0:43.3

If it's a murder, then you need a murderer.

0:45.3

You really don't have the full story.

0:48.3

She was running around trying to save her own life.

0:52.3

Bad things keep happening here over and over again.

0:56.1

This hotel was hiding something.

0:58.5

I would have never thought what was about to happen could happen.

1:05.0

This is the latest chapter in a dark history for the Cecil Hotel.

1:12.3

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1:14.3

It's hard and it's brutal and that's what makes it special.

1:18.1

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