Elisa Lam

Birthday April 30, 1991

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace Canada

DEATH DATE Feb 2, 2013 (21)

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About

Canadian student who disappeared in 2013 at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. A security video showing her acting strangely in a hotel elevator before she vanished went viral. Her body was found in a water tank on the hotel's roof 19 days after she was reported missing. 

Before Fame

She was a student at the University of British Columbia. She had traveled alone to California before her death.

Trivia

Her death is the subject of a 2021 Netflix documentary called Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel.

Family Life

In 2015, a judge dismissed a negligence suit filed by her parents, David and Yinna Lam.

Associated With

The Cecil Hotel served as inspiration for American Horror Story: Hotel, which features stars such as Kathy BatesSarah PaulsonEvan Peters and Lady Gaga.