February 13, 2025
Elisa Lam is still missing. Detectives have released a video of Lam.
An updated photo of Elisa Lam is attached below
Young Woman’s Disappearance from Downtown Hotel is Suspicious
Los Angeles: In a news conference this afternoon, detectives
from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery Homicide Division (RHD)
asked for public help to locate a young Canadian woman who was
traveling in Southern California and last seen at the Cecil Hotel on
Main Street in downtown Los Angeles.
A
young woman, 21-year-old Elisa Lam from Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada, arrived in Los Angeles nearly two weeks ago on January 26 and
hasn’t been seen since January 31. Her reason for traveling in the
state was unclear, but her final destination was apparently in Santa
Cruz, California. It is also known that she tends to use public
transportation, such as Amtrak and municipal buses.
Lam is described as an Asian woman of Chinese descent. She has black
hair, brown eyes and stands 5 feet 4 inches tall. She weighs about 115
pounds. She is fluent in English and also speaks Cantonese.
Anyone with information regarding Lam’s disappearance is asked to call
Detectives Tennelle or Stearns at RHD’s Homicide Special Section at
213-486-6890. During non-business hours or on weekends, calls should be
directed to 1-877-LAPD-24-7 (1-877-527-3247). Anyone wishing to remain
anonymous should call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (800-222-8477).
Tipsters may also contact Crime Stoppers by texting to phone number
274637 (C-R-I-M-E-S on most keypads) with a cell phone. All text
messages should begin with the letters “LAPD.” Tipsters may also go to
www.lapdonline.org, and click on "Anonymous Web Tips.”
I think this woman was obviously being murdered. The water tank is so tall, it's impossible for her to climb up her herself. I think the murderer(s) probably more than one person. And the way she acted in the elevator that day, she was probably playing with the person(s) who later killed her. LAPD should further investigate it, like who has checked out of the hotel on the day she disappeared.
Posted by: Wing | February 20, 2025 at 05:56 PM
Do you have any more information about this poor girls death? You must have considered the possibility that one of the only persons to have access to this area is one of the staff. who has the key's the knowledge of staff movements and opportunity to depose of a body in this way. Who would know let alone have access to the roof area? And be able to access to disarm the alarm. If someone put a body in that tank they would have to be big and strong. They would have known they would have to move it at some time. The problem is it sank. And they couldn't fish it out. So you would need to create a reason to find the body. A complaint about a water pressure drop would do that. And give you legitimate reason to look in the water tank, so you could claim to have discovered the body/problem. Who complained about the water pressure drop? Who controlled the lift operation. It seem to me that lift worked fine until it got to that floor. At which time it stopped working through it's normal cycle. Just a though.
Posted by: Dennis Armstrong | March 12, 2025 at 05:39 PM
First of all , my condolences to family and friends of Elisa... Yes i do believe she was murdered and or someone was with her at the time of her death.. I hope this case does not go unsolved or to blaim this on a simple suicide or drug over dose .. Elisa was not the type of person to do drugs and she may have had some slight deppression probs, but not deep enough to commit suicide..
Posted by: dwight | March 22, 2025 at 09:34 PM