Her last known sighting was on security footage from one of the hotel’s elevators, in which she was seen acting erratically, moving around inside the elevator as if hiding, speaking and motioning as if there is someone else out of sight near the elevator bank. There were no signs of forced entry into her room, nor any drug-related paraphernalia. Lam had left her belongings behind at the hotel, including her laptop and clothing. Netflix’s new docuseries, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, looks into the case, which became one of the most well-known true crime “mysteries” of the last decade. She changed from a shared room to a single.
During this time, Lam’s known activity was limited. On January 28, 2013, Canadian college student Elisa Lam checked into the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
