Elisa Lam Murders

Piper Moffitt
Mrs. Greene
5th Period English Language Arts
11 January 2023
Was Elisa Lam Murdered?
“You’re always haunted by the idea you’re wasting your life,” said by Chuck P, featured on Elisa Lam’s Tumblr - an unfortunate, but ironic addition to her already tragic story. Elisa Lam was born on April 30, 1991. She was a 21-year-old Chinese-Canadian student, who during a vacation to downtown Los Angeles, went missing from LA’s infamous Cecil Hotel on January 31, 2013. She was found dead February 19, 2013. There is more than enough evidence to prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that Elisa Lam was murdered - her body was found in a large water tank that she would have never been able to access alone, entry to the roof was restricted to only

That morning, Santiago Lopez, one of the hotel’s maintenance workers, found Lam’s body in one of the tanks after there were reports from residents of murky, strange water with an almost “metallic” taste. By examining the tanks closer, you can infer there would be no way a woman of her size (5 '4', 115 pounds) could have opened the lid to the tank. The tanks were 4 foot by 8 foot, and because there were no cameras on the roof, we don’t know how she would’ve ever gotten to access the lid either. This demonstrates the already suspicious nature of Elisa’s case. How would she ever have been able to get to the top of the water tank? Ladders were accessible, but they were 10 feet. At this point in time, the evidence already shows the mysterious and grotesque qualities of this story. But this is just the

While it is true she has Bipolar, and has even discussed it on her blog, this claim is factually incorrect. There are many reasons as to why this is wrong. Even the Manager of the Cecil Hotel stated that she was “travelling alone” and that she “must have gotten mixed up with the wrong crowd, and that wouldn’t be hard to do in downtown LA.” In addition, the Cecil Hotel has an extensive, horrific history of murder, with many well-known serial killers staying there at some point, with some stories being “bird lover slain,” “unidentified young woman found murdered,” and “unidentified victim of strangulation found.” With this in mind, the chances that she was murdered rises an exponential