Elisa lam case solved
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TW: mentions of suicide, drowning
The last moments of Elisa Lam’s life became a viral sensation when videos were released of the 21-year-old’s erratic behavior in the Los Angeles Cecil Hotel on January 31, 2013. Her body was found just 4 weeks later inside a water tank on the roof of the hotel. Although Lam’s death was determined to be an accidental drowning, the public became wary of how she ended up in the water tank, leading to the curation of theories regarding her death.
Elisa Lam pictured in the center
Early Life
Elisa Lam was born on April 30, 1991. Her family had immigrated from Hong Kong to Canada where they opened a restaurant in British Columbia. Following the move, Lam decided to take a trip to Los Angeles, California for the first time…alone. She arrived in Los Angeles on January 26 and checked into the Cecil Hotel just two days later. Initially, she was assigned a shared room, but her roommates complained about her odd behavior, and she was moved to a room of her own.
Lam was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and depression and prescribed
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Death of Elisa Lam
2013 accidental drowning in Los Angeles
34°02′40″N118°15′04″W / 34.0444°N 118.2510°W / 34.0444; -118.2510
Elisa Lam | |
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| Born | Lam Ho-yi April 30, 1991[1] Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Disappeared | January 31, 2013 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | c. February 1, 2013(2013-02-01) (aged 21) Stay on Main, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Accidental drowning |
| Body discovered | February 19, 2013 Stay on Main, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Education | University of British Columbia |
| Occupation | Student |
| Traditional Chinese | 藍可兒 |
| Simplified Chinese | 蓝可儿 |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Lán Kě'ér |
| Yale Romanization | Làahm Hó-yìh |
| Jyutping | Laam4 Ho2ji4 |
On February 19, 2013, the body of Canadian tourist Elisa Lam (born as Lam Ho-yi;Chinese: 藍可兒) was recovered from a large cistern atop the Stay on Main hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, where she had been a guest. She was last seen alive on January 31 and was reported missing by her parents on February 8
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Elisa Lam, also known by her Cantonese name, Lam Ho Yi, a 21-year-old Canadian student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, was recovered from a water tank atop the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles on February 19, 2013. She had been reported missing at the beginning of the month. Maintenance workers at the hotel discovered the body when investigating guest complaints of problems with the water supply.
Her disappearance had been widely reported; interest had increased five days prior to her body's discovery when the Los Angeles Police Department released video of the last time she was known to have been seen, on the day of her disappearance, by an elevator security camera. In the footage, Lam is seen exiting and re-entering the elevator, talking and gesturing in the hallway outside, and sometimes seeming to hide within the elevator, which itself appears to be malfunctioning. The video went viral on the Internet, with many viewers reporting that they found it unsettling. Explanations ranged from claims of paranormal involvement to the bipolar disorder fro
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