True Crime of Elisa Lam at the Cecil Hotel - Pt. One

As of now, the exact circumstances surrounding the death of Elisa Lam, a 21-year-old Canadian student, remain unknown. She was last seen at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles on January 31, 2013. Despite the eerie surveillance footage from the hotel showing her strange behavior before she disappeared, along with other details that have come to light, the case continues to raise more questions than provide answers. Since her body was found in the hotel's water tank on February 19, the mystery of her untimely death has persisted.


“In 22 years plus of doing this job as a news reporter, this is one of those cases that kinda sticks with me because we know the who, what, when, where. But the why is always the question,” said NBC LA reporter Lolita Lopez in reference to the mysterious death of Elisa Lam.