Lam was a 21-year-old Canadian tourist who sought adventure. She traveled to Los Angeles in 2013 and rented a room in the Cecil Hotel. Lam was last seen on Jan. 31, 2013. Her parents reported her ...

Over the years, the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles has been infamous for several deaths, including suicides and murders. However, the 2013 death of Elisa Lam became internet folklore and her ...

A new Netflix true-crime docuseries dives into the history of downtown Los Angeles' Cecil Hotel and the mysterious case of a Canadian tourist who was found dead in the hotel's rooftop water tank in ...

Netflix’s latest true crime docuseries, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at Cecil Hotel, tells the story of Elisa Lam, a 21-year-old college student from Canada who went missing from Los Angeles’ Cecil ...

Victoria Caister is a journalist based out of Toronto. She's been a writer and a movie nerd for most of her life, with an extra special interest in the horror genre. The 2013 death of student Elisa ...

Lam’s body was discovered in a rooftop water tank on Feb. 19. The death was ruled an accidental drowning. Internet sleuths quickly picked up the case, questioning how Lam could have ended up in the ...

The docuseries points the needle towards this theory while also looking into the suspicious evidence and strange coincidences surrounding the case. Lam's body was moderately decomposed when hotel ...

When 21-year-old student Elisa Lam (who also went by Lam Ho Yi) traveled from Vancouver to California for a solo trip, she was ultimately found dead in a water tank on the rooftop of the infamous ...

Netflix's newest true-crime series, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, has turned attention back to one of Los Angeles' most significant unsolved mysteries. Canadian college student Elisa ...