Elisa Lam's Tumblr From 'Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel' Is Still Active

Netflix’s Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel takes a deep dive in the tragic disappearance of Elisa Lam. The new true crime docuseries follows 21-year-old Lam, a college student from Vancouver, who vanished on January 31, 2013 during her stay at the infamous Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. After hotel guests complained about odd-tasting water, her naked body was found submerged in the hotel’s rooftop water tank. Prior to her demise, the property already had a reputation for suicides, serial killers including the Night Stalker, and murders earning it the nickname “hotel death.”In addition to interviews with detectives, hotel employees, and even online sleuths, the documentary sets the scene with excerpts from Lam’s Tumblr blog, titled Nouvelle-Nouveau. The posts give insight into Lam’s personality and state of mind leading up to her disappearance and death. “[Lam’s] story is an integral part of the Cecil Hotel’s history,” director Joe Berlinger (FYI: He also created The Ted Bundy Tapes) told TV Insider. “I didn’t want to invent dialogue or create speculative situations, so everything she says via voiceover in the show comes directly from her online posts.”Those same posts and Lam’s Tumblr blog is still active today. You can…
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