Who killed eliza lam. The mysterious death of Eliza Lam

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Story mysterious disappearance And tragic death Eliza Lam made a lot of noise on the Internet and is well known to most of those who are interested in criminal mysteries. However, it is impossible not to admit that over the past year and a half, a certain zone of silence has developed around the circumstances of what happened; the attention of the majority turns out to be focused on some curious details, while circumstances or factors significant for understanding what happened, for various reasons, are beyond the scope of consideration. It is difficult to say why such a bias arose, but one can guess that if even lovers of paranormal secrets joined the analysis of what happened to Eliza Lam, then one cannot count on clarity and adequacy of judgments.
Meanwhile, the story of the death of Eliza Lam is really non-trivial and deserves the most careful and objective analysis. And search for analogies, if, of course, it is possible. Sometimes analogies help to understand those circumstances of events or their implicit connections, which, when considering a single case, escape attention.
Eliza's family, consisting of a father, mother, and two daughters - Eliza and Sarah - moved in 2003 from China to Canada. Eliza, who was born on April 30, 1991, was barely 12 years old at that moment, and therefore the girl quickly adapted to the situation of a new country for her. This was partly facilitated by the fact that in Vancouver, where the family settled, there was a large Chinese diaspora (in general, numerous diasporas of immigrants from South-East Asia- Vietnamese, Thais, etc., there are also a lot of Indians and Pakistanis). The family rented a small cafe in Burnaby, an eastern suburb of Vancouver, and ran their own business. Daughters helped their parents, although the business was "penny", but, nevertheless, it provided a certain minimum of prosperity to the family. Parents eventually bought the cafe, paid for the education of their daughters. Eliza went to work in an outerwear store, and after entering the University of British Columbia, she got a job in one of the branches of the HSBC bank.

Eliza Lam.

Among Eliza Lam's hobbies, the love of jazz and literature deserves to be noted. For nine years of living in Western society, she largely adopted the rules of the life around her, although, of course, with a certain degree of national specificity. She did not smoke, did not use drugs, but could afford to drink wine or beer in company. Like many of her contemporaries, she rather actively indulged in the Internet life, had an account in Tumblr (quick messaging service), where she regularly sent small notes or comments about what was happening to her or around her.

Eliza's parents, upon arrival in Canada, were initially interrupted by odd jobs, but in 2006 they rented a small restaurant national cuisine in the Burnaby area (in eastern Vancouver). Things went well and three years later they bought this eatery. This establishment can hardly be called stylish or glamorous, and the term "restaurant" can be applied to it at a stretch, by our Russian standards it is more of an ordinary dining room. But it is quite consistent with the unprepossessing area surrounding it and its unprepossessing inhabitants. Even with prices of $4-6 Canadian per dish, the restaurant brings in a dividend, enough for the family to make ends meet and pay for the higher education of two daughters.

The girl loved to travel, and if at school age her mother usually accompanied her on trips, then as she grew older, Eliza began to travel alone. She traveled several times to the United States, to the state of Washington, bordering the Canadian state of British Columbia, and in the summer of 2012 made a trip to eastern Canada, visited Ottawa and Toronto, looked at Niagara Falls.

For quite a long period of time, Eliza had hatched a plan to visit California, visit Los Angeles, see Hollywood, so to speak, feel the energy of the place with the highest density of millionaires in the world. At the beginning of 2013, it seemed that all the circumstances favored such a trip - Eliza received a Christmas award, the semester at the university ended, her parents did not object to the trip. In mid-December 2012, Eliza broke up with her friend, and this separation served as a source of certain negative experiences, so the parents reacted to their daughter's desire to "unwind a little" with understanding. In fact, let the girl rest and change the situation. Chinese families are characterized by a strong connection between generations, and in this respect Eliza remained a real Chinese woman - she sincerely loved her parents and they paid her the same. They called up several times a day, and if they left Vancouver, Eliza called them daily - it was the law.

Eliza with her sister and mother on graduation day.

Eliza planned to travel through California from south to north, starting in San Diego and ending in San Francisco. The girl arrived in California on February 22, quite safely examined San Diego, devoted one of the evenings to going to a club with live jazz music. During her stay in this city, she lost her smartphone, borrowed from a university friend for the duration of the trip. It didn't turn out well so I had to buy another one.
On January 26, Eliza arrived in Los Angeles and stayed at the Cecil Hotel, a rather large 15-story establishment that is technically considered a 2-star hotel.

Cecil Hotel. Quite an American extended stay hotel.
Unlike modern hotels, focused on receiving large groups of tourists and a continuous change of clientele, "Cecil" belonged to the category of extended stay hotels common in the United States. As a rule, these are rather old hotels, which are to some extent similar to the hostels of the Soviet era, with the only difference being better side that they have a hotel service (room cleaning, bed linen change, etc.). The guests in such hotels - usually elderly people - settle in them for many years, receive a discount on room rates, they do not cause much trouble to the staff and live quietly. In general, the situation in such "long-stay hotels" is almost homely, the rotation of customers is not very high, the staff knows the residents and all the residents who can cause problems are known without exception. By the way, the oldest client of the Cecil Hotel settled in it in 1964 and at the time of the events described, he had lived in it for almost half a century. Like Soviet dormitories, there is a "corridor system" on many floors of the hotel, i.e. a bathroom and a shower cabin are taken out into the corridor and are in the general use of residents. However, in 2007, Cecil was renovated and most of The number of rooms has been renovated. At the same time, rooms on three floors received individual showers and bathrooms.

Hotel "Cecil" inside: foyer (so-called lobby) and standard rooms. In 2007, the hotel underwent a partial renovation and its number of rooms began to vary greatly in terms of amenities. In the lower part of the building there are more modern and expensive rooms with individual bathrooms and toilets, and on the upper floors the rooms do not have "amenities". This concept is somewhat reminiscent of the dormitories of the Soviet era, with the difference, of course, that the hotel administration provides hotel services, which no one in the Soviet "hostels" had any idea about.

So Eliza Lam checked into the hotel on January 26th, saying she planned to check out on February 1st. From Los Angeles, she intended, apparently, to head to Santa Monica, in any case, she found out from the hotel workers how to get there more conveniently. On January 29, Eliza left her last entry on Tumblr, literally in a few lines, they say, she came to Los Angeles, stayed in a gaudy hotel. Writing about nothing...
January 31, around noon, she last time she called her parents, told briefly about her life, and everything in her story seemed to be as usual.
But on February 1, Eliza did not call home. And this was strange, since there was a strict agreement between her parents that she would call every day, and if a phone call from her daughter did not follow by the next evening, they would start looking for her. After waiting all day on February 1 to no avail, Eliza's father called her several times. phone number. There was no answer. Then the father called the hotel reception (the hotel administrator on duty, speaking in Russian). This conversation, which took place at about 20:00, made a strange impression on Eliza's parents: the administrator on duty stated that the period of stay at the hotel paid by Eliza Lam expired at noon on February 1, and since there was no renewal of the reservation, the staff vacated the room, transferring personal belongings to the left-luggage office. Where Eliza herself is, the administrator could not answer, but assured that she was not in the hotel, however, all her belongings were safe and would be returned to the owner without any payment when she appeared.
Such a slightly foolish conversation ... How should parents react to what they heard?
That's right, the parents rushed headlong to the nearest office of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP - Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Canadians themselves colloquially call the employees of this organization "riders", although, of course, they have not been riding horses for a long time). It must be said that the RCMP is not quite an ordinary police force, some functions of the special services are also assigned to the responsibility of this department, therefore, consideration of a statement about the disappearance of a Canadian citizen in the territory of another state was precisely the prerogative of the "riders". The officer on duty helped to correctly draw up a statement, which he registered on the first day. But it is clear that work on its verification could only begin the next morning.
Police millstones in all countries of the world are turning slowly, because the laws of bureaucracy are approximately the same for Russia, for the United States, for Burkina Faso. Well, maybe Burkina Faso has a little more bureaucracy. On February 4, the LAPD's Missing Persons Unit finally received a "tip" about a Chinese-Canadian student who had been missing since February 1, 2013. From there, this information was transferred to the Murder and Violent Crime Unit. It is not entirely clear why this happened, because there was no evidence of a crime against Eliza Lam. Perhaps, in this case, the police bureaucracy worked what is called "ahead of the curve", from experience assuming the worst-case scenario. Be that as it may, the detectives of the Homicide Investigation Division, perhaps the most prestigious and competent criminal investigation unit, took up the disappearance of a Canadian student.
Working out information about the strange disappearance of the girl was entrusted to detectives Wallace Tennell (Wallace Tennell) and Gregory Stearns, a police officer with a rather remarkable past and also notorious in Los Angeles. It makes sense to tell a little about them, especially since such a story will help to understand the specific criminogenic situation in which the "City of Angels" has been living for several decades.
Tennell has been actively involved in the fight against Los Angeles law enforcement agencies for many years against street gangs that have been terrorizing the city since the 1970s. The capital of the American film industry has long been divided into areas that are controlled by huge (a thousand or more people) youth groups armed to the teeth. These juvenile gangsters not only fight each other, engage in racketeering and "cover" the drug trade, but are also busy permanently recruiting new members. Each of the gangs has its own rite of "initiation" or "initiation" into gang members - this can be, for example, a group beating of a newcomer, if it is a young man, or gang rape, if a girl is accepted into the gang. But a number of groups, seeking to demonstrate their cruelty and uncompromisingness, as an "initiation" offer the newcomer to kill a member of a hostile gang. Very often, the victims of such symbolic reprisals are completely strangers, either accidentally caught in the way of young idiots, or unknowingly wearing a T-shirt or baseball cap in the colors of an enemy gang (underage idiots with automatic pistols did not come up with anything smarter than to distinguish each other by colors - some, for example , dress in red and avoid black in clothes, others, on the contrary, will never wear red, etc. How can one not recall the famous film "Kin-dza-dza" and the immortal pearl of one of its heroes - the alien Uef, who declared: " a society devoid of the color differentiation of pants is doomed to degradation! It seems that American street gangsters have already reached that caveman level of development that was characteristic of the inhabitants of the planet Kin-dza-dza.)
In 2002, a wave of unmotivated murders swept through Los Angeles, the victims of which were people who happened to be on the street - one of the dead was leaving the store, the other was sitting with a newspaper on a chair in front of the house, the third was walking to the car in the parking lot. All of the victims died from gunshot wounds inflicted by powerful rifled weapons, which led to suspect the attack of well-equipped criminals. All the victims were male, their age ranged from 12 to 72 years. Since none of the property of the dead was missing, the police immediately suspected that they were dealing with "initiations" of youth gangs. The killers simply drove their car into an area controlled by a hostile gang, drove through the streets, looking for a victim dressed in the colors of an enemy gang, and shot her.
After the death of the fourth victim, a task force was created to focus on investigating these crimes. Wallace Tennell actively worked in its composition. It was he who turned to the means mass media with a statement that the police department will pay $50,000 to anyone who provides information relevant to the investigation of these murders. As the number of victims grew, Tennell soon offered to increase the amount of the reward, and it was raised to $100,000.
The killings, however, did not stop, and the detective raised the need to once again increase the payment promised to the informant. The police department could not do this simply because of their limited resources. Then Wallace Tennell contacted some members of the City Council, who had the power to decide on the payment of the whistleblower (or whistleblowers) by an earmarked budget. Surprisingly, Tennell managed to find an approach to the right people, and an amount of $ 250 thousand was allocated from the city budget. Information about this was leaked to the newspapers and on television, so that the name of the detective then sounded out to the whole city.
By the way, the story of the murders has not really been investigated. After 250 thousand dollars were allocated from the city budget, the crimes stopped. In total, within the framework of this investigation, the death of 9 men, old people and teenagers was recorded. It is believed that the criminals stopped their attacks out of fear that they would be "surrendered" by cronies, seduced by a large amount of reward.
In May 2007, Wallace Tennell was once again in the media spotlight. And again in connection with the sensational investigation. This time the murder victim was the detective's son, Bryant Alexander Tennell. On May 11, he and a group of comrades went to a small store located near his home in South Los Angeles. A pistol shot was fired from a passing car for no reason, the bullet hit Bryant in the head, as a result of which the young man died on the spot. Detective Tennell was the first police officer to arrive at the crime scene.
The criminals were tracked down, they turned out to be members of one of the street gangs, and the murder committed was the very rite of "initiation into gangsters" that Tennell fought unsuccessfully in 2002. Derrick Victor Stark, 23, was driving the car, already considered an experienced "foreman" and mentor to the younger generation of renegades, and Devin Stephen Davis, a bastard who wanted to get a job as a gang killer, fired a pistol. He was only 17 at the time. Three years later, in April 2010, he was sentenced to life in prison plus 25 years without parole. Although Devin Davis was underage at the time of the murder, Detective Wallace Tennell asked the judge to treat the killer like an adult. The detective spoke about the criminal something like this: "he considered himself old enough to hold a gun, so let him be responsible as an adult!" As can be seen from the verdict, the judge agreed with Wallace Tennel, which only added sensationalism to this story.
Not devoid of interesting episodes and track record of Gregory Stearns. This detective gained notoriety for his involvement in the investigation into the murder of Sherri Rasmussen on February 24, 1986. Sherri was brutally beaten and then shot with a .38 caliber handgun. Suspicion fell on policewoman Stephanie Ilene Lazarus (Stephanie Ilene Lazarus), who was in conflict with the deceased because of her former lover John Ruetten (John Ruetten). Shortly before her death, Sherry told her father about the threats against her from Lazarus, and her father, of course, informed the investigation about this. However, in 1986, the search took a different path: the assumption of an attempted robbery by Sherri Rasmussen began to be considered as the main version. The deceased drove an expensive "bmw" and wore jewelry that could be mistaken for diamonds. In the area where the crime took place, they saw suspicious persons who, without a visible purpose, wiped themselves near the shops. The investigation focused on their search. This path did not lead anywhere, and in the end, the investigation stalled.
In 2009, the old materials were sent for re-examination to the Division of Homicide and Serious Crimes against the Person, where they fell into the hands of Greg Stearns and his partner Dan Jaramillo.

Gregory Stearns (right) and Dennis Jaramillo (left), detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department's Homicide and Violent Crimes Unit, uncovered the 2009 cold-blooded murder of Sherry Rasmussen, almost a quarter of a century earlier. This investigation brought them national fame. And in February 2013, Greg Stearns took part in another sensational investigation - the disappearance of Eliza Lam.
Detectives most carefully studied all the materials of 23 years ago, checked all conceivable "strings" and "hooks". Their attention was attracted by a seemingly insignificant circumstance - the deceased was bitten by the attacker on the chest. And the medical examiner took a swab from the bite in the hope of establishing the blood type of the bitten, if only his gums were bleeding. This examination in 1986 did not give a result, however, the detectives knew very well that the expert should take half of the swab for examination, and the second should be kept as a control sample. After contacting the warehouse of physical evidence, they found that biological samples seized at the autopsy by Sherry Rasmussen is still stored in the refrigerator. Among them was a half of a tampon, on which (at least theoretically) the saliva of the bitten Sherry could remain.
What followed was a matter of forensic technology. Biological material was indeed found on the swab, from which DNA was isolated, which coincided with DNA ... Stephanie Lazarus! On June 5, 2009, an LAPD veteran was arrested and charged with murder. At the same time, someone in the police leadership was clearly trying to hush up the matter - Lazarus was not fired, but sent on a vacation of many months, and for some time the vacation was with the salary saved! The situation, you see, looked strange - the police madam is behind bars, and the Police Department pays her money for this ... The police union began to collect money in order to make a bail and secure the release of Lazarus before trial. The lady sitting behind bars, accused of murder in the first degree, was on police experience and, in the end, she was honorably retired (when you find out about this, you involuntarily recall the complaints about "corruption in the ranks of the Russian police")! Feeling where the case was heading, the judge appointed an incredibly large amount of bail - $ 10 million - so Lazarus could not be released on bail and she was left to "cook on the bunk."
The scandal turned out to be all over the country, perhaps all the major news publications wrote about the "Lazarus case", and television companies devoted their reports to it more than once or twice. In May 2012, Stephanie Lazarus was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the first 27 years (i.e. until 2039). Gregory Stearns quite deservedly earned nationwide fame and there is absolutely nothing to reproach him for.
And so, in early February 2013, Wallace Tennell and Greg Stearns received a complaint about the disappearance of Chinese-Canadian student Eliza Lam in Los Angeles. Where did they start? That's right, on February 5 they went to the Cecil Hotel, where the missing person lived and where her belongings should have been.
Inspection of things allowed the detectives to draw some preliminary conclusions. First, the fact that they were all stored in a tightly sealed, duct-taped plastic bag made it highly probable that a police dog trained to detect odors would be used to track down Eliza. Things clearly retained the smell of the owner and a trained dog could find the trail left by her. Secondly, the detectives did not escape the attention of the presence of a cosmetic bag with medicines among the things of the missing girl, which turned out to be quite a few. This gave rise to a completely justified question about the state of her health and possible abuse medicines. Finally, thirdly, by the presence of a suitcase and a large handbag, one could confidently say that Eliza did not leave the hotel, in other words, she did not move to another place, leaving unnecessary junk in the Cecil. The hotel left jeans, T-shirts, socks, personal hygiene items and other things necessary in everyday life. The fact that the owner had not yet tried to get these things back gave rise to very gloomy assumptions about her fate.
On the same day, two cynologists with dogs were called to the hotel, who began to inspect the building. With the help of dogs, a room on the fourth floor was examined, in which the disappeared girl lived until February 1. The room was already occupied by another occupant, but this presented little difficulty for the dogs, who could smell even small streaks of dried blood. However, this inspection did not give any reason to suspect that in the room of Eliza Lam a corpse could have recently been lying or that bloodshed had taken place.
Further, the search extended to "common areas", in terms of the Russian housing and communal services. Among those, the technical floor located above the uppermost residential floor was examined (this floor was the thirteenth in a row, but was numbered as the fourteenth. The thirteenth floor did not exist in the hotel. The technical floor located above it was considered the fifteenth, although in fact it was fourteenth.). It was possible to take the elevator to this floor, but it was impossible to get out of the elevator without a special key. However, this floor has been inspected. Of course, the roof of the hotel was also examined with the help of dogs, the exit to which was also locked with an electronic lock, the opening of which was recorded on the alarm panel of the hotel's security service. Although there was no evidence of unauthorized opening or breaking of the locks on the doors leading to the roof and technical floor between January 31 and February 5, the police apparently decided to play it safe. However, search activities carried out with the involvement of dogs on February 5 did not give a result - the fate of Eliza Lam was still unclear.
At the same time that police squads were actively prowling the building, Detectives Wallace Tennell and Greg Stearns seized video footage from the security cameras installed in the hotel. This was followed by a similar operation with video recordings of ATMs located in the lobby and nearby buildings. Finally, footage from outdoor surveillance cameras located in the neighborhoods adjacent to the Cecil Hotel was added to the video archive. It could not be ruled out that Eliza was the victim of some incident outside the hotel, say, an accident or a robbery on the street. Detectives had to analyze at least 800 hours of video footage from January 31 and February 1.
The activity of the Los Angeles police at the Cecil Hotel could not go unnoticed. The very next day, the first reports appeared on the news of local radio stations and television channels about the search for a Canadian student who disappeared some time ago. This information immediately attracted the attention of the Internet audience both by the unusualness of the disappeared girl herself (a Canadian citizen originally from China, who disappeared in Los Angeles, the capital of the world film industry!), And by the mystery of what happened. Already on February 6, the first discussions about this phantasmagoric story began on the Internet, and in the very near future, numerous communities appeared, "sharpened" for such a discussion. As time passed, more and more new participants were involved in this interested communication, and soon the story of the mysterious disappearance of Eliza Lam made it to the tops of the Chinese and American segments of the global network. With some delay, this topic found its place in Runet, although it should be immediately recognized that discussions in the Russian-speaking segment, for obvious reasons, were secondary to the American one.

1. Eliza Lam

It is safe to say that the death of Eliza Lam is the most mysterious case in recent history. The case remains unsolved to this day.

The incident occurred while Eliza was staying at a hotel in downtown Los Angeles. It was called the Cecil Hotel.

Eliza was a student at a Canadian university British Columbia in Vancouver. She was born on April 30, 1991 and was 21 years old.

2. Travel

One day Eliza decided to go on a trip to West Coast USA.

Eliza started her journey in January 2013. She visited San Diego where she visited the zoo and wrote about it on her blog. Then, on January 26, the student arrived in Los Angeles and checked into the Cecil Hotel. She was supposed to stay there until the end of January...

3.Disappearance!

Eliza kept in constant contact with the family and informed them of her location. When the parents didn't get a regular phone call, they got worried. Later, when the hotel staff called Eliza's room, they also received no answer. After that, her parents flew to Los Angeles and filed a missing persons report.

Two weeks later, Eliza was found, but not alive, but dead: she was lying naked in a water tank.

4. Death

When the police were looking for Eliza, they put up posters of her all over the city. But at the same time there were complaints from the same hotel.

Clients of the hotel complained that the water had a very strange taste. Plus, there was an unusual smell. The hotel staff, starting to inspect the water supply systems, discovered the dead body of a girl ...

On February 19, 18 days after her disappearance, Eliza Lam was found in a water tank that was on the roof of the hotel. Her body had partially decomposed in the water, and small pieces of clothing floated around.

5. Riddle

The last footage of her life was filmed in the hotel elevator: the girl behaved very strangely, as if someone was following her.

Eliza's entry into the water tank itself was strange event. First, getting on the roof is not an easy task. Secondly, the entrance itself was absolutely untouched. How was Eliza dragged there? Or how did she get there? Unclear!

The results of the autopsy showed that there were no injuries on the body.

Keep your eyes peeled: - a record of the death of a Canadian student in american hotel Cecil, who is still debating whether it was a suicide or a cold-blooded murder.
The beginning of 2031 excited the people of Los Angeles with the disappearance of Eliza Lam, and then the terrible discovery of her body. The remains were found in the water tank of the inexpensive Cecil Hotel, which is located in the city center.

Victims, bloody guests and mystical signs of the Cecil Hotel

The Los Angeles Times in 1962 reported on a woman who jumped out of a hotel window and fell on a pedestrian, taking his life.
, whose body was found dismembered, stayed at the Cecil.
Goldie Osgood ("Lady Dove") is raped and murdered in a hotel room, the case remains unsolved.

Richard Ramirez (), who accounted for 13 proven victims, was a hotel guest.
Jack Unterweger (Viennese Strangler), who used his profession as a journalist, lived in hotel rooms, wrote about the red light district of L.A., killing prostitutes along the way.

The hotel building has 14 floors, however, in fact there are 13 of them.
There were 700 rooms in Cecil, the room with three sixes was not populated.

disappearance

The 21-year-old Canadian, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, was an exemplary child, daily calls home with a report on her trip to America were the norm. Arrival in the City of Angels changed everything: the calls stopped, the girl disappeared. In a public place, the victim was seen on January 31 in a bookstore, she bought souvenirs for loved ones (a small fact that casts doubt on the version of suicide, or makes it plausible, because a souvenir is a great memory of a person). The last shot of Eliza on the same day is her elevator ride.

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Terrible find

Starting in February, hotel residents begin to complain about the water: weak pressure, smell and taste. On February 19, the administration checks the water tanks on the roof and discovers the body of a missing student in them. One can only guess what sensations the guests experienced who drank water with cadaveric remains. On February 22, the media reported that the cause of death had not yet been determined.

Versions of the tragedy

The incident with the dead student in the water tank gave rise to many versions:

1. Death under the influence of alcohol or drugs - indeed, Eliza's behavior in the elevator suggests a similar version, especially since finding both in the City of Angels is not a problem. The question arises - how susceptible was the exemplary girl to the influence of others and the use of the above means. Only close people can answer. The assumption of a "bad company" is not valid, because such subjects would leave many traces of their stay.

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2. Suicide - Eliza went on a trip to get rid of depression, to unwind, she was happy to tell relatives about her trip to America on the phone, took photos. Did the girl plan her death in advance, could she imagine what difficulties await her on the way to the roof and getting into the closed tank? Could she cope alone with the obstacles described above? Was she a fan of Japanese mystery films? Where were her clothes (the body was found naked)? Without answers, at least it is difficult to draw conclusions to these questions, and even more so to investigate something. However, it remains unclear why the investigation did not give clear answers to the tragedy.

Mystical coincidences

January 31 is the eve of Imbolc, a pagan festival; "lamb" - "lamb, sacrificial lamb", Lam is the name of the demon (the name of the victim is Elisa Lam); there was an outbreak of tuberculosis in Los Angeles, the test was called the LAM Elisa (developed in Vancouver, Canada, the victim's new homeland); the ancient Jews, the Celts, the Germans ate sacrificial animals, the guests of the Cecile unknowingly consumed parts of the remains of Eliza Lam.

The conclusion of the pathologist: no traces of drugs, hallucinogens and alcohol were found in the tissues of the tourist; there are no signs of violence - blows, abrasions and signs of a struggle; death occurred in the water (the girl choked and did not try to avoid it).
And all that is known, we will draw our conclusion - the peculiarities of the Eastern mentality, their thirst for sophisticated cruelty, craving for mysticism and otherworldly forces, secrecy, achieving the goal in any way (even at the cost of their own lives) could move an unremarkable Chinese student from Canada to take actions, which will be returned to everyday life the hype, misunderstanding and mystical imagery that accompanies Koji Suzuki's story and the 2002 film Dark Waters, making Eliza Lam complicit in the transcendental events of these works of art.

Sony Pictures is going to make a film about the disappearance of 21-year-old Canadian Eliza Lam, who traveled alone in the United States. The painting is based on a sensitive story.

On January 28, 2013, Eliza stayed at the Cecile Hotel in Los Angeles. On January 31, she disappeared. After 14 days, hotel customers began to complain about the water supply, namely the strange taste and color of tap water. When the water crew found the naked and partially dismembered body of Eliza Lam in an open tank.

At the autopsy, nothing strange was found in Eliza's blood: no traces of alcohol, no traces of drugs, this leads to suspicion, because the deceased was not registered in any psychiatric hospital.

There were no signs of struggle and violence on the body, and there were no marks on the inside of the tank that would indicate that the deceased Eliza tried to get out of there. It is also striking that there were no clothes on her body. There is a version that she got stuck in the plumbing.

There were many options for what happened: an attempted rape and murder, suicide, an accident. An investigation was carried out, and the version of the murder was not confirmed, since there were no leads and evidence, and there were no strangers in the hotel.

A very likely cause is suicide, albeit an unusual one. But only hotel employees had access to the roof and water supply, and the police officers who were on the spot assured that the lids of the tanks were locked.

Here is some interesting information

1. Hotel "Cecile" has repeatedly been a place where murders and mysterious suicides were committed.

2. In this hotel in 1985, there was Richard Ramirez, who killed 14 people on ritual grounds.

3. Eliza's relatives say that the trip to Los Angeles was not planned.

4. The main and most terrible fact is the video recorded by the surveillance camera in the elevator. To say that the girl is acting strange is an understatement. Once in the elevator, she presses the same key combination multiple times. The elevator doesn't budge. She looks out of it as if someone is following her. Then she runs out of the elevator, moving around strangely, wringing her hands, talking to someone out of camera view—or herself. He hides and sits in a corner. Leaving on the 14th floor (her room was on the 4th), the girl did not return to the elevator. After that, she disappeared.

Interestingly, the same maniac Ramirez lived on the 14th floor. After this video, opinions were born about the possession or that she was haunted by a ghost.

Eliza Lam videos

P.S. Drowning in a tank of water is very similar to the plot of the movie "Dark Water". One of the heroines in the American version was a girl named Cecilia.

This shocking story of ghosts, maniacs, Freemasons, Illuminati, and sacrifice rocked America in early 2013. Young Elisa Lam, a tourist from Canada, arrived in Los Angeles on January 26 and stayed in cheap hotel"Cecile" ("Cecile") in the city center. She never returned home, and none of her relatives and friends expected such an end to a short and bright life.

Elisa Lam

The 21-year-old Canadian of Chinese descent was an exemplary daughter, calling her parents daily and talking about all her adventures while traveling in the United States. However, shortly after her arrival in the City of Angels, the calls stopped. On January 31, Eliza was seen for the last time - she went to a bookstore near the hotel to buy souvenirs for her relatives, returned to Cecil, rode the elevator - she was recorded by a camera in the cab - and ... disappeared without a trace.

One of the last photos of Eliza Lam: self-portrait in the toilet of the Cecile Hotel

Dark waters: where did Eliza Lam hide?

Eliza's footprints were discovered on February 19, when hotel guests began to complain to the staff about the quality of the water. The liquid in the taps darkened, the pressure weakened, a strange aftertaste appeared ... The employees climbed to the roof, where the water supply system is located in American skyscrapers. There, in a tightly closed tank, naked Eliza was found, who at that time had been looking for her parents together with the police for two weeks. They came to the US when the daughter stopped calling and sending emails.

The girl's body, which had poisoned the water and life of hotel guests for more than a dozen days, was removed and sent for forensic examination. The results were awaited with bated breath not only by grieving relatives, but also by thousands of observers around the world. And now - on February 22, the TV news announcer reports that the cause of death ... has not been determined. Some answers can be given by a toxicological analysis, which will be ready at the end of April.

The most big mystery in this case, a video from January 31 showing Eliza in a hotel elevator. She presses the same combination of buttons several times in a row, runs out of the elevator, hides, wrings her hands, talks to someone out of camera view - or to herself. Having left on the fourteenth floor (her room was located on the fourth), the girl no longer returns to the elevator.

Rescuers remove Eliza's body from a water tank

The story of poor Eliza resembles either a Japanese horror film, or a real Hollywood thriller with many unknowns, or the beginning of a mystical novel about, for example, the world conspiracy of the Illuminati. Who they are, we have almost figured out, but why did they need a random Canadian tourist?

Or not random?

However, everything is in order. Consider the most common versions of Eliza's death on the Internet.

Murder - accidental or planned.

Some netizens claim that Eliza's inappropriate behavior in the elevator is the result of drug or alcohol intoxication. At home, in Canada, the girl did not drink and was not interested in illegal substances. Perhaps in five days in such a nest of debauchery as Los Angeles, she managed to get into a bad company who treated her to drugs.

According to this version, it was with new acquaintances - or with characters of narcotic hallucinations - that Eliza talked as she ran out of the elevator. Having got on the roof with the "company", she could somehow upset the satellite or satellites, and she was drowned in the tank. First of all, the personnel of the Cecil should be suspected here, because only they could have direct access to the tanks and ladders.

But the case fell apart - not a single suspect could be identified. Interesting results came from the pathologist. According to him, no known drugs and hallucinogens, alcohol were found in the tissues of the tourist. Also, there were no signs of any violence against her: there were no blows, abrasions, signs of a struggle. Moreover, it was established that death occurred in the water - she choked, but did not try to avoid it. An extract from Toronto states that she was not registered and was not seen in subcultural associations, did not express a desire to commit suicide, etc.

Based on the results of the autopsy, a decision was made - the case was closed, the death was declared an accident. How Eliza got on the roof, how to explain her strange behavior before the loss - and, apparently, death - all these questions are no longer of interest to the police.

Suicide

Many researchers of this case are sure that Eliza suffered from schizophrenia or another mental disorder, although her relatives do not confirm the version. This is evidenced by the unusual behavior of the girl in the video and several blog entries. Besides, none of her acquaintances in Vancouver know why she suddenly went to California alone. According to doctors, the symptoms of schizophrenia can be hidden until a certain time and appear under stress.

However, in Lately Elisa wrote in her Tumblr.com diary that she was getting over her depression. She characterized her trip to the USA as a trip to cheer up, new experiences, stories. Eliza loved fashion and music, took a lot of photographs, was a fan of the Harry Potter novels and actor Ryan Gosling, and communicated on the Web. If it was suicide, it was not planned. In addition, she could not climb the roof on her own, find and substitute a ladder, open and close the tank.

mystical death

Fans of Japanese horror adhere to this option, expecting the imminent appearance of the ghost of Eliza in the corridors of the hotel. An Asian girl who drowned in a water tank on the roof is a character in the famous horror novel Dark Waters by Koji Suzuki. In the book, little Mitsuko falls into a tank by negligence, left unattended, and becomes a ghost that terrorizes the inhabitants of a high-rise building. In the American film adaptation of "Dark Waters" - we note the second coincidence - one of the heroines is called Cecilia ...

Some attribute the girl's behavior in the elevator to being possessed by a demon or trying to escape from a supernatural pursuer. Eliza looks either cheerful or scared, and the strange hand passes, if you look closely, are a little unnatural. In addition, we do not see who she is talking to ... perhaps she alone in this world could see her mysterious acquaintance?

This version is played by the veil of despair and hopelessness that has long hovered around the Cecile Hotel. Mysterious suicides and murders often occurred here, the hotel was a temporary home for two maniacs, as well as for actress Elizabeth Short, who was brutally murdered in 1947.

Illuminati sacrificial ritual

Eliza's disappearance day, January 31, is the eve of Imbolc, a pagan festival celebrated on February 1-2. At Imbolc, the turning point between winter and spring, the ancient priestly religions performed human-sacrifice rituals to please their gods. This fact opens up a string of amazing details of the death of Eliza Lam, from which the skin is covered with goosebumps. Details from the present and distant past…

Let's start with the person serial killer Richard Ramirez, who stayed at this hotel in 1985. He is known as a Satanist - some of his 14 victims were abused after death, similar to the ritual actions of the priests of Lucifer, which also include the Illuminati. By the way, Ramirez lived on the 14th floor, where Eliza ended up riding the elevator.

A little more about the numbers: the video shows exactly which combination of buttons Eliza sequentially presses several times in a row. These are 14, 10, 7, 4 and the elevator stop button. In the Gospel of John, chapter 4, verses 7, 10, 14, Christ's conversation with a Samaritan woman, from whom he asks for water, is described. “Jesus said to her in response: if you knew the gift of God and who says to you: give Me a drink, then you yourself would ask Him, and He would give you living water. And whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty; but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life.” Isn't there too much water in one story?..

The next eerie coincidence: in addition to consonance with the English word "lamb" - "lamb, sacrificial lamb", Lam is the name of the demon that the legendary occultist and Freemason Aleister Crowley, the founder and participant of several secret occult societies, spoke about in his notes. His occult writings have been quoted more than once by those who are considered to be the Illuminati and Freemasons. In 1889, while living at the Cecil Hotel... but only in London, Crowley wrote the poem "Jephtha" - an arrangement of the biblical apocrypha about the judge who sacrificed his daughter Sale to the Lord. The names Seila and Elisa consist of the same letters, and both names are translated from Hebrew similarly - "Demanded" and "Dedicated to God."

During Eliza Lam's stay in Los Angeles, an outbreak of tuberculosis swept the city, the test for the definition of which was called - you won't believe it! – LAM Elisa. This test was developed in Vancouver, where Eliza lived with her family after moving from Hong Kong.

The hotel building houses the office of the design agency Invisible Light (“Invisible Light”), whose logo is very similar to the main sign of the Masons - the triangle of the All-Seeing Eye. Now the agency is not working, on its Invisiblelight.tv page there is only this symbol.

Signs and coincidences ... There are too many of them in this incident. The Illuminati or another force had a hand in the death of Eliza Lam, but the picture, which is made up of details, will give odds to any mystical horror movie. On the day when the ancient priests performed human sacrifices, a young girl, possibly a virgin, finds herself in an unknown way in a huge tank of water. Her body is decomposing, gradually dissolving into liquid. This water is drunk by the population of a hotel with six hundred rooms for two weeks.

Around the girl's name, her life, her last day- more than a dozen indications that she was doomed to become a victim given to water. As the ancient Jews, Celts, Germans ate the remains of sacrificial animals, so the guests of "Cecile" unconsciously completed a certain ritual, using parts of the remains of Eliza Lam.

There are many questions in this story, and the main one is why?

Other facts about the Cecil Hotel

The Cecil Hotel is covered in blood. There are many stories of murders, suicides, rapes about this place, and historically it is located in an area once fertile for lovers of sexual pleasures and the underworld. However, renovations have recently begun.

Serial killer Richard Ramirez, the "Night Tramp", often stayed at this hotel, on the 14th floor (which is actually the 13th), where he disposed of his bloody clothes after hunting his victims, staying in a small room. Sometimes he stayed there for several days, listening to loud music.

Murderous journalist Jack Unterweger, known as the "Viennese Strangler" also stopped there, researching the history of L.A.'s red-light district, while killing several prostitutes there.

Elizabeth Short, also known as the "Black Dahlia", temporarily stayed at this hotel shortly before she was brutally murdered: Elizabeth's mutilated body was found on a derelict lot along South Norton Avenue in Leimert Park, near the city limits of Los -Angeles. The body was cut into two parts in the waist area and dismembered (the external and internal genital organs, as well as the nipples, were removed). The woman's mouth was cut open from ear to ear.

According to an article in the Los Angeles Times, in 1962, a woman jumped out of a hotel and, while committing suicide, also killed a pedestrian she landed on.

Two years later, Goldie Osgood, the famous "Lady Pigeon" of Pershing Square, was raped and murdered in the same hotel in her room. Her case remains unsolved.

Formally, the hotel has 14 floors, but in fact there are thirteen. This was done on purpose, due to inherent superstitions. Many US hotels also practice this.

Initially, the hotel officially stated that they had 700 available rooms, however, in our time, only 600 became free. One of the unoccupied rooms is 666th.