Elisa Lam Water Tank

#ElisaLam #TheCecilHotel #LosAngeles #death #mystery conspiracy theories, LAM-ELISA, tuberculosis, mysterious death, horror stories, haunted hotel, The Black Dahlia, Richard Ramirez, The #NightStalker #accidental death, accidental drowning, #AmericanHorrorStory Santiago Lopez wasn't expecting to find a dead body when he scaled the rooftop of the Cecil Hotel on February 19, 2013. A complaint about the water pressure prompted him to take the elevator to the 15th floor, where he hiked a set of stairs to the roof and then climbed a ladder to reach the ten-foot-tall water tank. He immediately noticed that the hatch was open. Inside, Elisa Lam's corpse lay face up in the water. Lopez, a hotel maintenance employee, detailed this discovery in court documents filed last month by attorneys for the Cecil, a historic hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The new declarations, issued by three staff members, are part of the hotel's push to dismiss a trial pursued by Lam's parents, David and Yinna Lam, who live in Vancouver, Canada. The couple sued the hotel in September 2013, alleging negligence led to the wrongful death of their 21-year-old daughter; a trial is slated for February. Attorneys for both the Cecil Hotel and the Lams declined to comment for this story.