However, the judge in charge of the case, halm, said that he was inclined to assume that Lan Keer's death was unforeseeable, because she died in the water tank on the roof of the hotel, and the hotel originally prohibited guests from entering this area, so she did not need to bear any responsibility.
The official results will be announced on Monday, US time, but it is not expected to change much. This means that this bizarre case, which once caused a sensation on the Internet and is still full of doubts, may become another mystery and be buried in people's memories and legends forever, just like many mysterious events in the history of cecil hotel.
Cecil hotel no longer exists. In 20 14, Richard Born, a new york hotel tycoon, bought this hotel for $30 million, quietly renamed it Stay on Main, and changed its signboard to continue its business. The origin of this name should be the address of the hotel, 640 South Street, downtown Los Angeles.
The name change of the hotel is very low-key, obviously trying to draw a line with the previous dark history. I searched online and found that all major booking websites can book rooms in this hotel, and the price is quite cheap. Many guests who didn't know the truth also left comments, such as "good staff service" and "good location".
If you travel to Los Angeles, please remember to avoid staying in the main hotel. Although it is very cheap, it only costs more than 30 dollars per night, while hotels in Los Angeles often cost two or three hundred dollars.
You also need to remember the address of this hotel, 640 South Street. Because Richard Born told the media that he planned to renovate the hotel again within two years, transforming it into a mid-range hotel with a night of about $65,438 +050.
This hotel has been renovated many times before, and it is said that the local public security environment has not been very good.
The screenwriter of American Horror Story also got inspiration from Lan's case and wrote it into the fifth season of American Horror Story: Hotel, which started in June+10, 5438.
Lan is a student at the University of British Columbia, and his parents are immigrants from Hong Kong. 20 13 10/3, she traveled to California alone and lived in cecil hotel. After staying in the hotel for five days, I originally planned to check out at 65438+1October 3 1, but it disappeared on this day.
Lan's parents called, but the case has not progressed in the past two weeks. Until February 13, the police released a surveillance video of the hotel elevator, in which Lan made all kinds of very strange moves.
This video immediately detonated the Internet in the United States, Canadian, China and even many Asian countries. Many people began to analyze the case online and make various speculations. I remember there were many discussions between Weibo and Tianya at that time. Even local people in Los Angeles spontaneously organized an investigation team to investigate at the hotel.
The following is the description of this video on Wikipedia:
The "weird movie" released by LAPD shows that Lan Kerr walked into the elevator in casual clothes, wearing a red coat and slippers, and there was nothing unusual. But then she immediately bent down and pressed the buttons on several floors, but the elevator did not close.
After about 20 seconds, Lan put her head out of the elevator and took a look. Then she walked back and forth in the elevator many times. During this time, she once stood in the dead corner of the elevator, as if avoiding someone. The elevator door was always open and never closed. After standing outside the elevator for about 30 seconds, Lan returned to the elevator, but he put his hands on his head and pressed the buttons on several floors again.
At this point, Lan stepped out of the elevator again, facing the right, gesticulating with her hands up and down, left and right in a strange posture, and making some strange movements with her legs, as if talking to the opposite person. During the period, I was photographed snapping my fingers like counting.
/kloc-After 0/5 seconds, Lan left the elevator and disappeared from the monitoring range. After Lan left, the elevator door was open for a while and then closed. After the elevator door was closed, the elevator operated as usual and moved to other floors without exception, but no passengers came in and out every time the switch was opened.
This weird video immediately caused a sensation among netizens everywhere. People from all walks of life are constantly trying to find clues from videos. Many netizens and the media have made a detailed analysis of Lan's behavior. Some analysts think that her behavior seems to be to avoid a suspicious stalker, but her behavior shows that Lan Keer has no panic characteristics caused by fear, and she doesn't look nervous at the critical moment. The strange operation mode of the elevator itself has also attracted attention.
According to Canada's OMNI TV station, 12' s friend Mai Vo, a classmate of Lan's from elementary school to high school, said that what she saw on the elevator monitor was quite different from her usual style, because the area was full of suspected drugs and the hotel was full of all kinds of weirdos, and she seriously suspected that Lan had been drugged.
Then on February 19, a guest complained that the water pressure was too low. The hotel sent maintenance personnel to the roof to check the water tank, and unexpectedly found Lan naked at the bottom of the water tank.
Hotel guests are very scared because it means that they may have unconsciously used or even drunk the water soaked in their bodies in the past few days. ...
Strangely, the roof passages of hotels are generally locked and equipped with alarm systems. Once the door is pushed open, an alarm will be given. No one knows how Lan Kerr got to the roof without being found.
On the other hand, several water tanks on the roof are quite high, and how Lan climbed into them is also puzzling.
At that time, many netizens suspected that Lan was killed by hotel staff who were familiar with the internal situation of the hotel. Some media even reported that some hotel staff were listed as suspects. But LAPD denied these claims.
A few months later, he closed the case in a hurry and thought that Lan was bipolar, which ruled out the possibility of homicide. However, this explanation is not convincing, and many people still doubt what is hidden in the case.
Many people have started posting on the Internet about their haunted and supernatural experiences during their previous stay in this hotel. Many murders in the history of cecil hotel have also been widely reported by the media:
199 1 year, the Austrian serial killer Jack Ottvig took this place as his base camp and killed many prostitutes while living here.
1985, richard ramirez, the midnight killer who slaughtered 14 people, stayed in the hotel 14 floor for several months.
1964, Goldie Osgood, the telephone operator, was found dead in a hotel room with several knives and signs of rape, and the room was ransacked. The case has not been solved.
1962 10 10 In October, Pauline Otton, a 27-year-old woman, committed suicide by jumping from her room on the ninth floor after an argument with her husband. She died on the spot and even ran over an unlucky passerby.
1962 In February, a woman named Julia Moore jumped from her room on the eighth floor and died. She only has a plane ticket from St. Louis to Los Angeles, 59 cents change and a passbook of 1800 dollars.
1954 10, a 50-year-old woman, Helen Gurnee, jumped from the seventh floor after staying in the store for a week and died on the spot.
1947, the actress Elizabeth Short, known as "black dahlia", was killed and dismembered. The body showed signs of being refrigerated, and was cut into two pieces from the navel, with many fatal injuries. After the incident, 33 people surrendered to the police, but all of them were ruled out as suspects, and most of them were sent to mental hospitals. This case is still the most famous unsolved case in California history, and it has been adapted into movies many times. ...