Joe Friday
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Just want to add to this. I have seen many many words attached to Elisa (I think mostly because of the video) like psychosis, drugged, bi polar (which may be true), and even crazy.
No matter what state she was in it still doesn't explain how she got access to the roof and then the water tank. That is the key to the case to me. Who got her up there?
I don't know where everyone is coming up with the notion that the stairwell door was locked and a key was needed to open it. A key was needed to shut off the alarm (if it was working). Like I posted earlier in the previous thread it would be a violation of the fire code to lock the door leading to the roof in which a key would e required to open it.
This hotel has so many problems and maintenance issues it would not surprise me if the alarm to the door leading to the roof was NOT in working order. It seems plenty of other guest have managed to gain access to the roof.
There were numerous complaints from guest about low water pressure and I suspect that a ladder was left at the tanks for easy access all the time. In the following story about the door lock it is even stated that there WAS a ladder on the outside of the tanks but NO ladder on the inside of the tank. I don't know if it was a permanent ladder or the aluminum ladder shown in some of the photos that is being referred to in the story, but yes Elisa could have simply walked up the stairs by herself, opened the door gaining access to the roof and climbed into the tank. Once inside she would not have been able to get back out. For all we know she was reenacting the scenes from Dark Water.
PLEASE READ THIS STORY PERTAINING TO THE LOCK ON THE ROOF ACCESS DOOR SO EVERYONE KNOW YOU CAN JUST WALK UP THE STAIRS AND GAIN ACCESS TO THE ROOF. (you cannot lock fire escape doors)
The mystery surrounding the death of Elisa Lam deepened Wednesday, as 24 hours learned a door leading to the rooftop water tanks where her body was found was fitted with an alarm that should have sounded when the door was opened.
The door has no lock but the alarm system would have rung continuously until it was turned off using a special key, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
According to L.A.'s fire code, it is illegal to lock rooftop doors in a highrise building. But a sign warning the door is alarmed is posted and it is unclear who had access to the key to shut it off.
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Moore said the eight-foot-high tank in which Lams body was found after shed been missing for three weeks had ladders on the outside and hatches without locks on the top. There were no ladders inside the tanks.
http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/2013/02/20/la-mystery-deepens-hotel-rooftop-where-body-found-had-an-alarm