The disappearance and death of ELISA LAM.
In mid-2010, Lam began a blog named Ether Fields on Blogspot.
Over the next two years, she posted pictures of models in fashionable clothing and accounts of her life - particularly her struggle with Bipolar disorder and depression. (She was taking Wellbutrin, Lamictal, Seroquel and Effexor to help her bipolar). In a January 2012 blog post, Lam lamented that a "relapse” at the start of the current school term had forced her to drop several classes, leaving her feeling "so utterly directionless and lost." She titled her post, "You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life" after a quotation from novelist Chuck Palahnuik.
She used that quote as an ‘epigraph’ for her blog. Lam worried that her transcript would look suspicious with so many withdrawals and that it would result in her being unable to continue her studies and attend graduate school..
A little over two years after Lam had started blogging, she announced she would be abandoning her blog for another she had started on Tumblr, "Nouvelle-Nouveau".
Its content mostly consisted of found fashion photos and quotes and a few posts in Lam's own words. The same Palahniuk quote was used as an epigraph.
The 21-year-old Canadian college student was last seen in the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles on January 31, 2013. She was staying in the hotel as part of a get away type holiday break and promised her parents that she'd call every night.
Hr parents never heard from Elisa and became concerned, soon contacting authorities. Police soon released surveillance footage taken from the cameras at the Cecil Hotel on their website.
The hotel video showed Elisa Lam in one of its elevators on the date of her disappearance acting rather strangely. In the pixelated footage, Lam can be seen stepping into the elevator and pushing all the floor buttons. She steps in and out of the elevator, poking her head out sideways toward the hotel’s hallways in between. She peers out of the elevator another few times before stepping out of the elevator entirely. The last minutes of the video show Lam standing by the left side of the door, moving her hands in random gestures. It’s almost as if she was hiding from someone and then trying to goad at someone. Other footage has shown that there was no one else there.
Public reaction to the inexplainable video became world wide news. It spread almost instantly to China, where Lam’s family is originally from. The four-minute video of Lam’s strange elevator episode has amassed tens of millions of views.
Guests of Cecil hotel had complained of the water’s fowl taste and the yellowy to black water colour and 2 weeks after Eliza’s disappearance, maintenance worker Santiago Lopez was asked to check the hotel’s water tank out.
What he found was truly shocking.
The naked body of Elisa Lam.
The tank in which Lam’s body was found had to be drained completely and then cut open from the side to remove her five-foot-four frame according to a statement by the chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Nobody knows how she got in there. How her clothes were removed. Or even how she managed to shut the lid of the tank.
The autopsy report didn’t come out until after 4 months. When the toxicology report came out, there were no drugs or alcohol in her system. Only a cocktail of medication which is most likely her bipolar medication.
I personally think her weird actions in the elevator were a result of her bipolar medication as it can cause bipolar people to become manic and based on the reports of when she took her medication, I don’t think she was taking it properly.
The autopsy did not show any foul play from the evidence that was processed. However, the coroner’s office noted that they were unable to do a full examination because they could not examine the blood from Lam’s decomposing body.
Eliza lam’s parents tried to sue the Cecil hotel for their failed duty “inspect and seek out hazards in the hotel that presented an unreasonable risk of danger to [Lam] and other hotel guests.” The hotel thought back against the law suits.
However, I must mention just how hard it is to actually get into this tank:
Lopez said that he took the elevator to the 15th floor of the hotel before walking up the staircase to the roof. Then, he had to first turn off the rooftop alarm and climb up on the platform where the hotel’s four water tanks were located. Finally, he had to climb another ladder to get to the top of the main tank.
Once you finally make it to the tank, you have to unlatch it and the miniature door to get in is made of some serious heavy steel. Apparently, Eliza would never have been able to open it. The biggest part is, you can’t get up to the rooftop without triggering alarms. So, how was the woman able to get up there without triggering alarms?
Now, given all of this, I am aware it’s not officially a ‘crime’. Despite this, it’s still creepy and I’d still like to know what happened.
I hate unsolved deaths.
I’m so confused as to how she managed to open the tank and not trigger alarms. Plus, I did some extra research on Cecil hotel and it has a long history of murders.
Maybe someone helped her. Honesty, I really don’t know.
Let me know what your theory is.
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