Hi, everyone! I'm new to the community and fairly new to this case, which is very interesting to me. I would like opinions on a couple things I found while using a search engine. I just want to know what you all think. ![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
1. Help Find Elisa Lam's Killer
This blog shows screen captures from the elevator video. They point out "another person's foot and hand" and "a weapon." However, my vision isn't the greatest even with my glasses on. The images are blurry and I can't really tell if there's another person there or not. What do you think of the pictures? Do you see what the blogger sees?
2. Elisa Lam Time Stamp Conspiracy
Again, the elevator video is rather blurry and the time stamp is impossible for me to see. But this person claims that 54 seconds is missing. I wonder if that's true. Have you heard anything about the video being edited in any way?
Hi Tap Dancer,
Re #1... I had a quick skim through but didn't go back over the video footage again. The big issue for me with trying to pick out small details on the video is the video quality is not there. The post they made with the different foot directions, I recall seeing that elsewhere before. It looks strange in the still, but when I watched the video previously I recall it looked like Elisa's other foot, she has just oriented her feet at an unconventional angle...
Re #2... again, haven't re-watched the video, but I did have a look when this was mentioned before. The counter does appear to stop ticking over for a bit (from memory it was like 1-2 seconds though?).
I am not sure if the time stamp is blurred out or perhaps this is just really low res footage that was released. It would be interesting to hear the opinion of someone who has some expertise with surveillance footage to get their opinion re possible causes for this (eg is this a software glitch in whatever program is overlaying the time stamp where it lags?)
As far as if time is missing as a result of someone removing a chunk of footage/editing the time stamp, the issue that comes to mind is they have done all of the hard part and then goofed up the easier part by having the timer stop...
If a person wanted to edit the footage and didnt have copious amounts of time in the security room to do so it could explain a quick hack job - but to be honest, i'm guessing these systems are developed so that people cannot easily tamper with them and also guessing the run down crap hole that was the cecil would not have had equipment in there capable of doing so with any particular ease. So your average degenerate would not have had the skills or foresight to consider accessing the security room to edit the footage unnoticed (nor the skills to retrieve the footage nor equipment to edit and replace it) - and the people/organisations with the capabilities to modify the footage would have made sure they conducted all their dirty business off camera anyway.
I don't think we have enough information to do anymore than put a question mark on the footage, and see if anyone with any expertise can give a rational explanation for something that is probably quite easily explained.
To briefly entertain the suggestion that x number of seconds of footage was removed - if someone did remove footage/tamper with the timer, we would have no way of knowing how much was removed based purely on the low res video footage that has been released.
Anyways, welcome to the forum, some people are pretty much set on this being case closed and aren't particularly fond of discussion that deviates from the LAPD explanation of what happened, and then the other end of the spectrum you have people saying there was a South Korean military contractor working on cloaking devices operating out of the same building, that EL was sacrificed as part of some blood ritual or that some government body was trying to poison the people.
My personal opinion is that there is not enough information. I am not saying the LAPD finding is wrong, but with the information that is publically available, I think is inadequate to support the conclusion with certainty (but again, JMHO - some people think there is more than enough information to support the finding).
I just hope that the LAPD did go over things such as her browser history (phone + computers), mobile calls/message history, surveillance footage from all cameras for the duration of EL's stay, interviews of neighbours etc during her stay, medical records that qualify how EL was going in juggling her mental health concerns.....