If you have never seen the evidence before, of the video tampering, and if you come to believe that the tampering is true due to the inconsistencies in the timestamp, then before assuming too much, consider that the timestamp may be completely foreign to the video, and wholly pasted in. It might even be misleading if it doesn't reflect the true time or even day of the video. I have a lot of difficult questions due to this timestamp, which is why I'm here, to get your help if possible.
Who was the likely persons(s) to provide this butchered timestamp situation: the hotel, the killer(s), and/or the police? I would expect that the police provided the timestamp in the pixel form that it's in, but if so, did they perfectly convert the pixel numbers from the normal "English" timestamp of the original video? Can we trust the times in the timestamp, or are we to disregard it completely? Would the Los Angeles police answer someone's question if that question were put to them? What does this timestamp mean? Everything for solving the case, or nothing?
I've always assumed that the timestamp was "blurred" for evidence purposes. This happens all the time to CCTV footage, in order to give the police/detective a leg up on the public/perp as far as evidence.
As far as the door close button, I am still of the belief that due to her poor vision, she accidentally pressed this button thinking it was door open. She hit all the different levels because she desperately wanted the elevator to go down. She looks, at the least, very frustrated when the door doesn't close soon after she hits the buttons... Now later, when she goes through the row of buttons again, I believe she is doing it with other intentions, and/or someone else's intentions.
Suspect-wise, I put out some ideas in a previous post but it was deleted due to the inclusion of links to these individuals social media accounts. In any case, I can still put out info that led me my profiling of said perps:
Poss. Perp 1, lives in LA:
1. Male heavily into occult, tattoos, metal music, etc. Lived in both San Diego and Los Angeles. Familiar with San Diego Zoo. Boyish charm masking a sociopath/sk.
(Elisa mentioned a "fun tattoo'ed guy" at the Cecil. She went to check out music in SD, along with the Zoo. This possible perp is a musician, tatted, has lived in both LA/SD, and according to FB has been to the zoo. She poss had low self-esteem and was relatively easy to pick up/manipulate by other men.)
Poss. Perp 2, lives in Canada, but family with Perp. 1:
2. Female that is either friends or family with male perp. Heavily into occult, also a sociopath/sk. Has girlish charm that can be used to gain the trust of other women.
(IMO, Elisa is talking to 2 people outside elevator. First the one on the left, that frisks her/tries to calm her down (Female Perp) and one on the right that arrives later and makes some threats to her (male perp) that she tries to wiggle out of conversationally).
Is it possible that Elisa lost her phone in SD, then somehow tracked it to somewhere else in the building? Or even heard it going off? She attempted to retrieve it, did so, then things went downhill. This is re: the frisking.
Another though regarding the elevator buttons. Lets say that she needed to use the bathroom late the night of the 31st, but d/t the flooding conditions in the bathroom on 4, she decided to go use a br on another floor. She started up high, 14, saw it was busy, got into the elevator planning to check every floor on the way down. Maybe br availability at the Cecil is tough and she had done something similar before?