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Here's a strange video, it's not an investigation video but was posted by "HotelPromotions" two days ago. It's a series of stills attempting to sell the hotel as a desirable destination. There are a couple of interesting shots outside the elevator doors on the fifteenth floor. Cecil Hotel...

Would it be possible to start a thread in the Elisa Lam section about the history of the Cecil Hotel, including past crimes? There's a lot of information in that area and it would be good to have a place to list it all.

I've been saying the same thing. I'm leaving town on Monday for the rest of the month but I'll be around in the first week of April, and if the only time we could do it were this week I could make myself available. I think a group of five would work. Or six, so we could enter in pairs...

Would you be interested in a group visit to the Cecil in the first week of April?

Not as easy as it sounds. I tried to find stuff on my own house, which was built in 1914. I went to the library and they gave me a printout of where to go and what to do. I followed the directions to the letter. I entered one government building and started following painted colored lines on the...

Good point, they haven't actually said, as far as I know, that it's the last video they have of her. I'm guessing it is because they'd want people to know what she was last wearing, but maybe I'm wrong. You're right too that someone reported they didn't check every room because of lack of a...

I would say that's doubtful. I believe I read or heard that it was a hinged lid, and those old heavy metal hinges get pretty stiff.

I keep wondering about this. Is it standard procedure for the police to check a hotel roof in a search for a missing person? The LAPD stated that they didn't search every room so what led them to the roof? My guess is that, because she was last caught on video on the 14th floor, the police...

EL was last seen alive. She was found in the water tank dead. The lid to the tank was closed when she was found. The police said there were no marks on her body indicating foul play. The conclusion with the least amount of assumptions is that she entered the tank alive, or was killed at that...

Isn't it just more logical to assume she somehow ended up atop the water tank alive?

There's been so much discussion about transporting a body to the roof and into the water tank. In my opinion that just underlines the fact that such an undertaking would be complicated at the least. But why are we not considering the easiest, most obvious explanation? The most obvious...

There's been so much discussion in these threads about transporting a body to the roof and into the water tank. In my opinion that just underlines the fact that such an undertaking would be complicated at the least. But why are we not considering the easiest, most obvious explanation? The...

Ok, this officer's comment seems to confirm that the lid was closed at the time of the first examination of the rooftop, when EL was still listed as missing. This lends, in my opinion, credibility to the theory that she was put in the tank by someone else, and furthers the argument that this...

There is an identical protrusion (minus the red things) on the next roof. My guess is that it's some kind of architectural detail and all the red things are firefighter gear.

Does anyone know the date of the original LAPD rooftop search of the Cecil? The one that occurred when EL was still listed as a missing person, during the Chris Dorner hunt?

This is a really good point which seems to all but confirm that the water tank lid was closed. If the police were searching the roof and the lid were open they would be much more likely to peer inside. Are there any photographs of the original police search on the roof when EL was still...

Hi, Peter. I read your posts with interest. Is it possible to post a link to your website, or to send it to me in a PM if posting such is not allowed? Thanks.

Years ago I dated a woman whose brother worked for the FBI on chasing serial killers. She told me that he said that they believed that at any given time Los Angeles, with such a large percentage of its population being transient, had between 5 to 10 serial killers in its midst. Frightening.

EL's family were from Hong Kong.

If we do it I'll bring a camera, or at least my phone. What specific pictures would you want?