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You can now get to the bottom of 'The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel' with new Netflix documentary


Remember the mysterious disappearance of a female college student in a Los Angeles hotel in 2013?

You can now learn all about it in a new true crime documentary on Netflix.

According to the streaming site, "Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel" is the first season in a new documentary series that deconstructs the mythology and mystery surrounding infamous locations in contemporary crime.

The Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles has been linked to some of the city’s most notorious activity, from untimely deaths to housing serial killers.

“Crime Scene” zooms in on the case of a college student named Elisa Lam who was staying at the Cecil when she vanished in 2013.

 

Reports say the young woman was last seen in grainy elevator footage, where she appeared to be frantic and paranoid while nervously peeking out the doors.

Lam’s body was discovered several days later, floating naked inside one of the hotel’s water tanks.

The mystery ignited a media frenzy, as well as mobilized a global community of internet sleuths eager to solve the case.

“Lam’s disappearance, the latest chapter in the hotel’s complex history, offers a chilling and captivating lens into one of LA’s most nefarious settings,” Netflix said.

All four episodes of "Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel,” directed by Berlinger, arrived February 10 on Netflix Philippines. —Margaret Claire Layug/JCB, GMA News