Additionally, I'd like to add she did all this legally blind (doubtful she made her way down to her room after the elevator situation).
To say that the facts indicate a nearly blind, physically weak, young asian female in new surroundings made her way all the way up to the roof (knowing the alarm was not on?) walked over to the water tanks, pick out the one farthest back towards the street, crawl up a ladder, open a relatively difficult-to-open hatch, then pull herself up and in? It just seems preposterous to me, mental illness or not. Almost every decision she made would seem to be made by someone that intricately KNEW the workings of the building, when all appearances are that she barely knew anything about it. Additionally, the lack of K9 alert on any part of the roof is pretty telling imo.
"Additionally, I'd like to add she did all this legally blind (doubtful she made her way down to her room after the elevator situation)."
-especially if she were visually impaired AND her sobriety was impaired
(yes, I also still think she was on a substance in that video contrary to the coroner ruling clear toxicology samples.
Reason being that a body in water naturally produces ethanol (alcohol) and GHB. So why tox results didn't indicate this is confusing to me.)
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"To say that the facts indicate a nearly blind, physically weak, young asian female in new surroundings made her way all the way up to the roof (knowing the alarm was not on?) walked over to the water tanks, pick out the one farthest back towards the street, crawl up a ladder, open a relatively difficult-to-open hatch, then pull herself up and in? It just seems preposterous to me, mental illness or not."
- yes, why would she even attempt to go through a security door if she assumed it were armed?
-LE didn't say they identified her by clothes she was wearing when body was found. So I'm assuming she did not have her clothes on when they found her bc clothing would have been a more ethical way for LE to address how they identified the body, rather than by having to say they had to identify her by bodily features/marks.
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"Almost every decision she made would seem to be made by someone that intricately KNEW the workings of the building, when all appearances are that she barely knew anything about it."
- Yes, IMHO and theory it is someone who frequently visits a long term resident of the Cecil and knows all the routes to sneak in and out ti visit said friend without being caught by security/cameras and also sneaks in order to avoid the front desk and their nazi visitor $35 fee/rules.
The person visiting the Cecil resident could live close to the Cecil (the standard is across the street) and could have taken Elisa to His place (probably Cecil resident tagged along!) so I will refer to him as the "standard suspect".
Who knows whether she was assaulted in the Cecil residents room upon being lured by both of the suspects or assaulted after being brought to the standard suspect's dwelling.
I can only assume if she were incapacitated/drugged and not conscious it would make her easy to transport in a bag from the Cecil residents dwelling to the standards suspects dwelling.
They could have panicked when The buzz of Elisa being missing began (here in CA it was very early February) and decided to keep her body at the secondary crime scene of the standard suspect (that lives outside of the Cecil) and put her back at the scene of the disappearance (cecil) after the searches for her body were complete and things cooled off surveillance/investigation wise.
of course bringing her back up to the roof by way of inside the hotel is impossible without being noticed.
So this standard sicko gets his buddy and accomplice (the Cecil resident) to lower down the fire escape ladder for him so he can access it up to the roof and drop Elisa's body in the tanks (there is a fire escape that leads directly to the back alley of the Cecil)
The water would destroy most evidence although I'm sure she was cleaned off even prior to being put in the tank...
They dropped her In the tank after the hotel was searched by canines in my theory, which explains why canines did not indicate she was on the roof during the first days of disappearance. She was kidnapped at the cecil, but killed/kept at a secondary scene until being put into the tanks around feb. 6-feb. 8.
*Again all IMHO and my theory/thought only.*
- She barely even knew how to work the elevator, let alone have the calculating mental capabilities to go through all of that logic in a disjointed illogical state - under the influence of a substance or having a psychotic break from reality.
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"Additionally, the lack of K9 alert on any part of the roof is pretty telling IMO."
-YES. VERY.