‘The Vanishing at The Cecil Hotel’: Gruesome history of hotel where mysterious death of Elisa Lam took place
7 Facts About Los Angeles's Notorious Cecil Hotel
A notorious hotel in Los Angeles that is known for a host of suicides, mysterious deaths and grisly murders is the subject of a new, true-crime
Netflix series.
The first time someone took their own life in The Cecil Hotel, in downtown
LA, California, was on January 22, 1927, when guest Percy Ormond Cook, 52, shot himself in the head after failing to reconcile with his wife and child.
By the 1960s, so many untimely demises had taken place there it was reportedly nicknamed ‘The Suicide’ by local residents, who claimed it had “insanity within its walls”.
ELIZABETH SHORT, A.K.A. THE BLACK DAHLIA, WAS REPORTEDLY SEEN AT THE CECIL HOTEL JUST DAYS BEFORE HER DEATH.
Elizabeth Short, the aspiring actress who would, in death, become known as
the Black Dahlia, was allegedly
spottedat the bar of the Cecil Hotel just days before her murder in 1947. Short's mutilated body, which had been cut in two, was found about 7 miles from the hotel. Short's case remains one of the most famous unsolved murders in American history.
2. AT LEAST TWO SERIAL KILLERS CALLED THE CECIL HOTEL HOME.
Lending to its legend, for years the Cecil Hotel has operated partly as a low-income residential facility and was reportedly called home by at least two infamous serial killers: Richard Ramirez, a.k.a. “The Night Stalker” (who is the subject of yet another
new Netflix docuseries) and
Johann "Jack" Unterweger, an Austrian man who, upon being released from prison after being convicted for the 1974 murder of a woman, became something of a minor celebrity ... then began killing more women.
3. A NUMBER OF BIZARRE DEATHS HAVE OCCURRED AT THE CECIL HOTEL.
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