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Welcome to ‘Hotel Death’: Inside Los Angeles hotel where more than a dozen people died

by souhaib
January 27, 2021
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A new Netflix true-crime series is exploring the dark history behind the notorious Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles, the site of multiple murders, mysterious deaths, and not one, but two serial killer guests.   

Premiering on February 10, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel is the first installment of the anthology series, which focuses on eerie places shrouded in death, criminal activity, and conspiracy theories. There have been at least 16 deaths at the hotel since it opened in 1927. 

The debut season touches upon the Cecil’s haunted past while investigating the site’s most recent mystery, the 2013 disappearance and death of 21-year-old Canadian college student Elisa Lam, whose body was found in the hotel’s water tank.

Spooky subject: The Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles is the focus of Netflix's new true-crime series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel

Spooky subject: The Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles is the focus of Netflix’s new true-crime series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel

The first trailer for Crime Scene begins with a description of the Cecil Hotel, with one person noting in a voiceover that ‘people call it Hotel Death.’

A former Cecil Hotel manager recalls being asked: ‘Is there a room here that maybe somebody hasn’t died in?’

‘I never got used to that,’ she admits. 

The hotel was built in 1924 by William Banks Hanner, Robert H. Schops, and Charles L. Dix, costing $1.5 million to complete. Its 700 rooms and marble lobby were designed with tourists in business travelers in mind, but it was only open a few years before the county was rocked by the Great Depression.  

The blocks surrounding the Cecil Hotel became known as ‘Skid Row’ after an influx of homeless people inundated the area. The hotel became associated with transients, sex workers, and criminals, but it was already plagued by untimely deaths. 

Yikes: There have been at least 16 deaths at the Cecil Hotel since it opened in 1927

Yikes: There have been at least 16 deaths at the Cecil Hotel since it opened in 1927

Haunted history: Six people reportedly committed suicide in the hotel in the 1930s alone, while a teen mom threw her newborn baby out of the window after giving birth in 1944

Haunted history: Six people reportedly committed suicide in the hotel in the 1930s alone, while a teen mom threw her newborn baby out of the window after giving birth in 1944

Murder: 'Pigeon' Goldie Osgood, a retired telephone operator, was found raped, strangled, and fatally stabbed at the Cecil Hotel in 1964

Murder: ‘Pigeon’ Goldie Osgood, a retired telephone operator, was found raped, strangled, and fatally stabbed at the Cecil Hotel in 1964

At least six people committed suicide in the hotel in the 1930s alone. Two ingested poison, one shot himself in the head, and others jumped from the building itself. 

In July 1934, Army Medical Corps Sergeant Louis D. Borden was found dead in his room at age 53 after he slashed his throat with a razor.   

The hotel’s following decades boast an equally violent history, with a teenage mother throwing her newborn baby out her window in September 1944. 

Questionable: Elizabeth Short, also known as the Black Dahlia, was allegedly spotted having a drink at the Cecil hotel days before her murder in 1947, though the claim remains heavily disputed

Questionable: Elizabeth Short, also known as the Black Dahlia, was allegedly spotted having a drink at the Cecil hotel days before her murder in 1947, though the claim remains heavily disputed

Dorothy Jean Purcell, 19, had no idea she was pregnant when she woke up with stomach pains while staying at the hotel with her boyfriend Ben Levine, 38. 

She gave birth to a baby boy in the bathroom and threw the live infant out the window onto the roof of the building next door, thinking he was dead. She was charged with murder but was found not guilty by reason of insanity. 

Elizabeth Short, also known as the Black Dahlia, was allegedly spotted having a drink at the Cecil hotel days before her murder in 1947, though the claim remains heavily disputed.  

The aspiring starlet’s body was found beside a sidewalk in a vacant lot in a southern Los Angeles suburb. The 22-year-old had been viciously mutilated, with the trunk of her body completely severed, and a satanic smile cut into her face. 

Short’s gruesome murder case has never been solved. 

Reputation: 'Throughout its history, the Hotel Cecil has always had a dark persona,' one woman explains in the trailer'

 Reputation: ‘Throughout its history, the Hotel Cecil has always had a dark persona,’ one woman explains in the trailer’ 

Infamous guests: Serial killers Richard Ramirez, better known as 'The Night Stalker,' (pictured) and Jack Unterweger lived in the hotel in 1985 and 1991, respectively

Infamous guests: Serial killers Richard Ramirez, better known as 'The Night Stalker,' and Jack Unterweger (pictured) lived in the hotel in 1985 and 1991, respectively

Infamous guests: Serial killers Richard Ramirez, better known as ‘The Night Stalker,’ (left) and Jack Unterweger (right) lived in the hotel in 1985 and 1991, respectively

Chaos: Ramirez would reportedly dump his bloody clothes in the hotel's dumpster and walk through the lobby after murdering someone

Chaos: Ramirez would reportedly dump his bloody clothes in the hotel’s dumpster and walk through the lobby after murdering someone 

Changes: The Cecil, which the series American Horror Story: Hotel is based on, was rebranded as the Stay on Main in 2011, though it's still often referred to as its original name

Changes: The Cecil, which the series American Horror Story: Hotel is based on, was rebranded as the Stay on Main in 2011, though it’s still often referred to as its original name

Nearly two decades later, ‘Pigeon’ Goldie Osgood, a retired telephone operator, was found murdered in her room at the Cecil Hotel on June 4, 1964. 

Osgood, who earned her nickname by feeding the pigeons at nearby Pershing Square, was raped, strangled, and fatally stabbed to death. A suspect was found walking nearby in bloodstained clothes, but he was later cleared. The crime remains unsolved. 

Focus: The show investigates the hotel's most recent mystery, the 2013 disappearance and death of Canadian college student Elisa Lam

Focus: The show investigates the hotel’s most recent mystery, the 2013 disappearance and death of Canadian college student Elisa Lam

Two of the hotel’s most infamous guests were Richard Ramirez, better known as ‘The Night Stalker,’ and Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger, who once called the Cecil home. 

‘Throughout its history, the Hotel Cecil has always had a dark persona,’ one woman explains in the trailer. 

‘This is a place where serial killers let their hair down, like Richard Ramirez, who had come back covered in blood, and no one’s got a problem with that.

Ramirez killed 13 people in California in the mid-1980s, and he lived in a room on the hotel’s 14th floor in 1985 before he was caught. 

Richard Schave, who runs Esotouric bus tours in Los Angeles with his partner Kim Cooper, told CNN in 2013 that while Ramirez was staying at the Cecil, he was ‘just dumping his bloody clothes in the dumpster at the end of his evening and going in the back entrance.’ 

Meanwhile, Unterweger was working as a journalist covering LA crime for an Austrian magazine when he checked into the hotel in 1991. He killed three sex workers in the city while staying there. 

Vanished: The bulk of the trailer for Crime Scene focuses on Lam's disappearance and the puzzling CCTV footage of her last moments

Vanished: The bulk of the trailer for Crime Scene focuses on Lam’s disappearance and the puzzling CCTV footage of her last moments

Confusing: The 21-year-old was last seen in surveillance footage on February 1, 2013, behaving strangely in the hotel elevator, appearing to hide from someone or something

Confusing: The 21-year-old was last seen in surveillance footage on February 1, 2013, behaving strangely in the hotel elevator, appearing to hide from someone or something

‘We believe he was living at the Cecil in homage to Ramirez,’ Schave said. 

The Cecil, which the series American Horror Story: Hotel is based on, was rebranded as the Stay on Main in 2011, though it’s still often referred to as its original name. 

The bulk of the trailer for Crime Scene focuses on Lam’s disappearance and the puzzling CCTV footage of her last moments. 

She checked into the hotel on January 26, 2013, after traveling from British Columbia, Canada, where she was studying, on her way to Santa Cruz. 

On January 31, Lam stopped using her phone. She was last seen in surveillance footage on February 1, behaving strangely in the hotel elevator, appearing to hide from someone or something. 

Mystery: Lam's naked body was found float in the hotel's water tank on the roof on February 19, 2013, after hotel guests complained the water tasted and smelled bad

Mystery: Lam’s naked body was found float in the hotel’s water tank on the roof on February 19, 2013, after hotel guests complained the water tasted and smelled bad

No clues: Lam's death was officially ruled accidental but how she died and the details leading up to it remain a mystery. Firefighters are pictured leaving the hotel after removing her body

No clues: Lam’s death was officially ruled accidental but how she died and the details leading up to it remain a mystery. Firefighters are pictured leaving the hotel after removing her body 

Eerie: In the show's trailer, a former Cecil Hotel manager recalls being asked: 'Is there a room here that maybe somebody hasn't died in?' She admits: 'I never got used to that that'

Eerie: In the show’s trailer, a former Cecil Hotel manager recalls being asked: ‘Is there a room here that maybe somebody hasn’t died in?’ She admits: ‘I never got used to that that’

‘The last footage we have of her was inside the elevator,’ one man explains in the trailer. ‘That’s where the case starts to go askew.’

Lam’s naked body was found float in the hotel’s water tank on the roof on February 19, 2013, after hotel guests complained the water tasted and smelled bad.

Police believe Lam, who was bipolar and had been staying at the hotel, had been there for two weeks by the time she was found. 

No other information about her final movements — including how she got onto the roof and into the tank — has been confirmed. Lam’s death was officially ruled accidental but how she died and the details leading up to it remain a mystery.  

‘Bad things keep happening here, over and over again,’ someone says of the hotel towards the end of the trailer, while another adds: ‘This hotel is hiding something.’



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