The Death Of Elisa Lam: 4 True Crime Facts Before Netflix’s ‘The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel’ Airs

Netflix is staying on its true crime kick and will be airing its newest bone-chilling series, “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel,” which focuses on the death of Elisa Lam.

The four-part docu-series will follow the investigation around Lam’s untimely death, as well as touch on why this hotel is famously called the “Hotel Death."

Lam’s death was ruled as an accidental drowning after her body was found in the rooftop’s large water tank. The security footage leading up to this accident caused some speculations because she was acting paranoid and not in her right state of mind leading up to her death.

“The Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles has been linked to some of the city's most notorious activity, from untimely deaths to housing serial killers. In 2013 college student Elisa Lam was staying at the Cecil when she vanished, igniting a media frenzy and mobilizing a global community of internet sleuths eager to solve the case. Lam's disappearance, the latest chapter in the hotel's complex history, offers a chilling and captivating lens into one of LA's most nefarious settings,” the Netflix description explains.

The Cecil opened in 1927 and the name changed to "Stay on Main Hotel" in 2011.

To gear up for the premiere on Feb. 10, here are some chilling true crime facts about the Cecil Hotel, as well as the mysterious case the series revolves around.

Two serial killers called this hotel home

Richard Rameriez, AKA “The Night Stalker,” lived on the 14th floor in the 1980s when he viciously murdered 13 people. Richard Schave and Kim Cooper, who run a true crime tour in Los Angeles, said that Rameriez was “just dumping his bloody clothes in the Dumpster at the end of his evening and going in the back entrance.”

Jack Unterweger moved into the Cecil in 1991 and was said to have murdered three prostitutes while he lived in the hotel.

Many guests died by suicide during their stay

A handful of guests took their lives and mysteriously died while staying at the Cecil in the 1950s and 1960s, according to CNN.

W.K. Norton, who was 46-years-old, is said to have been the first to die by suicide in the hotel after he ingested poison. After this, a slew of guests jumped from their windows to their deaths, Daily Mail reported.

A guest threw their newborn out a window

Dorothy Jean Purcell, age 19, gave birth to a baby boy in the middle of the night during her stay in 1944, having no idea that she was even pregnant. She ended up throwing her baby out the window, thinking it was dead.

Lam was last seen presenting erratic behavior in the hotel elevator

The last footage of Lam alive was when she was in the hotel elevator when it was stopped on a floor, and she acted as though she was hiding from someone.

The video shows her going in and out of the elevator and making strange hand movements that no one has been able to figure out why or the meaning behind it.