“We wanted to make sure we were telling Elisa’s story as accurately as possible.”įor More Cases About Mysterious Deaths, Watch 'Accident, Suicide Or Murder' “She’s not here to speak for herself, but this is the closest thing we could get to that because we’re hearing directly from her about how she was feeling and what she was thinking about,” he added.
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The series pulled quotes from Lam’s Tumblr, “because it was the most honest and authentic way to create a three-dimensional portrait of her,” director Joe Berlinger told The Independent, adding that he wanted the docuseries to be “victim-focused.”
Remind them every day it will get better." If someone says to you that they have depression don’t ask why. “Depression sucks," one post that’s shown in the series states. Lam often posted to her blog dozens of times a day. Her blog, a mix of fashion images, quotes, and original posts was anchored at the top with a quote by “Fight Club” author Chuck Palahniuk: “You’re always haunted by the idea you’re wasting your life.” Several posts went up following her death, presumably because they were scheduled on the platform before she died. Lam, a prolific blogger, wrote often about her struggles with mental health on her Tumblr blog, which is still online. As the series points out, she was diagnosed with bipolar 1 disorder, which can include psychotic side effects and breaks.
They concluded that she had died of accidental drowning, with her diagnosis of bipolar disorder being a significant factor in her death. As Netflix's new docuseries “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel” details, investigators ultimately ruled that her death was accidental.
Lam's body was recovered weeks later in a water tower on top of the hotel roof. The 21-year-old Canadian student, who was also known by her Cantonese name Lam Ho Yi, vanished in January 2013 while staying at the Cecil Hotel, located in L.A.'s notoriously dangerous Skid Row neighborhood. The mysterious disappearance and death of Elisa Lam at a Los Angeles hotel in 2013 became an international curiosity for several reasons, including the Tumblr posts she made ahead of her death, which drew in both true crime sleuths and those who empathized with her mental state and openness in her writing.
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