For example, one summary of Lam’s toxicology report was posted online by a Reddit sleuth with an obvious interest in medicine. Soon after the toxicology report came out, amateur sleuths began poring over any information they could find in hopes of solving the mystery behind the death of Elisa Lam. Clendenin/ Los Angeles Times Bernard Diaz, 89, a resident at the Cecil Hotel for 32 years, speaks to the press after Elisa Lam’s body was found. An Incomplete Autopsy Fuels Wild Theories About What Happened To Elisa Lam

But there were no indications of alcohol or illegal substances in her body. The toxicology report confirmed that Lam had consumed a number of medical drugs, likely to be medication for her bipolar disorder. When the autopsy results for Elisa Lam’s case came out, it only served to ignite more questions. “It seemed like had plans to return home, plans to give things to her family members and reconnect with them,” Orphan told CBS LA. Orphan remembered the college student buying books and music for her family back in Vancouver. At a nearby shop, eerily named The Last Bookstore, owner Katie Orphan was among the last to see Elisa Lam alive. Hotel staff told authorities that Lam was always seen by herself around the hotel premises.īut at least one person did see Lam soon before her death. Nobody knows how Lam’s corpse - floating lifelessly next to the same clothes she wore in the surveillance video - ended up in the hotel’s water tank or who else might have been involved.

Lopez made the discovery after responding to complaints from hotel patrons about low water pressure and a weird taste coming from the tap water.Īccording to a statement by the chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department, the tank in which Lam’s body was found had to be drained completely and then cut open from the side to remove her five-foot-four frame. 19, two weeks after the video was published by authorities, maintenance worker Santiago Lopez found Elisa Lam’s dead body floating in one of the hotel water tanks. KTLA Rescuers try to remove Elisa Lam’s body from the water tank on the rooftop of the Cecil Hotel.

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