The Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles has long borne a grim reputation, a place marked by numerous deaths. Yet fewer realize that within its walls resided some of history's most brutal killers. A determined journalist, seeking the city's newest mu…

Elisa Lam, a Canadian tourist, vanished following her check-in at the Cecil Hotel, adding her name to a troubling history of homicides, suicides, and mysterious deaths that have plagued the infamous Los Angeles landmark.

On the pavement outside the Cecil Hotel, a man and a woman lay amidst a pool of blood. Initial assessments by investigators suggested they had both fallen, or perhaps been pushed, from a window on the ninth floor.