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29 - The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam
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Length:
72 minutes
Released:
Apr 3, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
On February 1st, 2013, 21 year old Canadian college student Elisa Lam vanished while staying at the Cecil hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Her nude, decomposing body isn't found until the morning of February 19th, after hotel residents complain of foul-tasting water. A strange, four minute hotel elevator camera video capturing the last moments she's ever seen alive goes viral, and a murder mystery is born that has the internet obsessed to this day over what really happened. Find out what conclusion I come to on today's Timesuck.
Released:
Apr 3, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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