![]() Lam travelled to the US by herself in January 2013, visiting San Diego before she arrived in LA, with plans to go to Santa Cruz and San Francisco. She loved fashion, The Great Gatsby, and Harry Potter and had been studying at the University of British Columbia. Who was Elisa Lam?Įlisa Lam, whose Cantonese name is Lam Ho Yi, was a 21-year-old Canadian former student born to parents from Hong Kong. We break down the evidence, theories and what might have happened. Featuring new interviews with the police officers who worked on the case, the hotel manager of the Cecil, guests who were staying at the Cecil at the time, LA historians as well as web sleuths who were obsessed with the case, it’s a grounded and thorough look at what might have happened to Elisa, while attempting to address some of the anomalies that make this case so strange and compelling. Was she murdered? Was it suicide? Was it an accident? Or could it even have been something supernatural? This four part docuseries from Joe Berlinger, who made the excellent documentary Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, delves into the case in a way that is sensationally un-sensationalist. More than two weeks after Elisa was last seen her body was discovered in a water tank on top of the hotel, after guests at the hotel reported a drop in pressure and discoloration of the water. It’s a very famous case with many theories posited across the internet, which captured people’s imaginations after some very odd footage of Lam was released by the LAPD, hoping to find out what happened to her. ![]() Watch our full interview with Vergara below.Netflix documentary Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel explores the strange case of Elisa Lam, a 21-year-old Canadian woman who disappeared in January 2013 while she was staying at the Cecil Hotel in downtown LA. I do have a lot of lyrics, especially now with all this crap. I do have a lineup here in New York, we’re thinking of making new music. “Sometimes I even think to myself, ‘I’ve been doing music all my life, since I was 16.’ I had a label, I had management, a lineup in Norway, all this stuff. Vergara also says he hasn’t been able to make music since the 2013 swarm of cyber sleuths. They’re also taking an active stand in trying to stop cyberbullying.” I think I did the right thing, because I’m starting to get a lot of messages from people around the world. “I just figured it’s something that’s gonna follow me all my life. “It took a while to convince me,” Vergara admits. Thanks to a new Netflix docuseries, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, Vergara has now cleared his name on a massive platform. People are being killed and people are killing themselves because of this. People need to wake up, we’re losing lives. She’s only 20 years old and they do that just because she’s looking goth, because she’s wearing goth makeup and dark clothes. I was just reading about Sophie Lancaster and her boyfriend Rob Maltby from the U.K. Listening to the Beatles doesn’t make you good, just as listening to black metal doesn’t make you bad. “Ted Bundy’s favorite music was the Beatles. Vergara also speaks of the misjudgment and vilification that metalheads often face. ![]() These people need to be prosecuted and when we see it happen, we need to take a stand, not just watch. “This is a criminal act,” Vergara insists. The online harassment Vergara suffered was an early case of extreme cyberbullying, which has become increasingly common in the age of social media. At a certain point … it feels like there’s no escape.”Įlisa Lam's death was ultimately ruled as accidental, while her behavior in the elevator video was found to be a symptom of bipolar disorder, for which Lam had stopped taking her medication. Mine was trying to walk away from it, completely turn my back on it, but that was after my suicide attempt. “You can’t win, so you’ve got to formulate a way to survive. “You’re constantly looking over your shoulder, you get death threats everywhere, all the time,” Vergara tells Loudwire in an exclusive video interview. ![]() They also publicly labeled Vergara as a murderer while circulating his photos online, even getting a Taiwanese news station to report Vergara as an official suspect. The internet mob attacked Morbid’s social media and streaming accounts, getting his music deleted from YouTube and his accounts banned from Facebook and Google.
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