Hotel Killer: 15 Mysterious Los Angeles Hotel Deaths
'22.08.2020'
Source: Fishki.net
This hotel has such a creepy reputation that some believe: it is here that a portal to real hell opens, they say Fishki.net.
There are places in the world where even hardened skeptics will believe in the paranormal. An example of this is a hotel Cecil on 640 MeineStreet, Los Angeles, USA. The hotel opened its doors to guests in 1924, and over 90 years, more than a dozen mysterious deaths have occurred there. And serial killers Richard were once hiding in this ill-fated place Ramirez and Jack Unterweger... These 15 chilling stories will convince you that the hotel Cecil - the haven of the dark forces.
First bells
In 1929, 33-year-old Dorothy Roberson wandered around the hotel for three days Cecil. TO Fortunately, there were those who noticed her strange behavior. It turned out that the woman had gone mad after her husband's death and was trying to poison herself. Another guest still managed to drink the poisoned liquor, but he was saved. Another tenant, George Ford, was arrested for possession of opium worth $ 10. There were also witnessed cases of robbery and beating within the walls Cecil.
Unidentified men
In 1933, a truck crashed into a wall Cecil, the driver died, no one remembers his name anymore, and the data was lost. And in June 2015, the body of a man was found under the windows of the hotel. It was established that the unknown committed suicide, but the police did not disclose his personal data.
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Erwin Neblett
The hotel initially earned a bad reputation due to its proximity to the infamous Skid Row area, which has long been a congregation of alcoholics, homeless people and prostitutes. One of the first suicides in Cecil happened in May 1939: 39-year-old sailor Erwin Neblett drank the poison. Just a few months before this tragedy, the teacher Dorothy Steiger tried to commit suicide in the same way, but then everything ended well.
Benjamin Dodich
In 1932, maid Kerry Brown found the lifeless body of 25-year-old Benjamin in one of the rooms. Dodicwho shot himself in the head. There was no suicide note, so there are still different rumors about the reasons for the suicide.
Louis Borden
In July 1934, 53-year-old military medic Luis rented one of the hotel rooms Bordeaux... Some time later, the man was found with his throat cut. From the suicide note, it turned out that Bordeaux was terminally ill and could no longer wait for the inevitable death.
Roy Thompson
Scary story Cecil even inspired Ryan Murphy to create the dark Hotel Cortez in the fifth season of American Horror Story. Another mysterious suicide occurred in January 1938: a guest, Roy Thompson, was found dead on the roof of a nearby building. Apparently, he accelerated well and jumped from the roof of the hotel.
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Grace I. Magro
In March 1937, Grace I. Magro fell out of the window of her room on the 9th floor. A telephone wire was wrapped around the girl's body. The police were unable to establish whether it was an accident or a suicide.
W.C. Norton
The series of suicides began in November 1931. W.C. Norton, registered under the name James Willis, did not leave the room for a week. It turned out that the man committed suicide by drinking several capsules of poison.
Julia Francis Moore
On February 11, 1962, 50-year-old Julia Francis Moore from St. Louis checked into the hotel. The woman stayed in the room for some time, and then threw herself from the 8th floor. There was no suicide note, 59 cents, a bus ticket, and a bank book were on the bedside table.
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Helen Gurney
In October 1954, Helen jumped out of a seventh-floor room window. Gurney... The woman fell directly onto the hotel canopy. The cause of the suicide was never established. It is only known that Gurney was unemployed and checked into a hotel under the name Margaret Brown.
Dorothy Jean Purcell
In September 1944, 19-year-old Dorothy Jean Purcellhaving slept in a hotel room with a shoe seller Ben Levin, I woke up from a terrible pain in the lower abdomen. The girl hurried to the toilet and, to her own surprise, gave birth to a child. Dorothy did not even know about pregnancy; in a state of shock, she threw the newborn out of the window. First she was found guilty of killing a baby, and then she was deranged.
Pauline Otton
On October 12, 1962, Pauline Otton had a fight with her husband Dewey and jumped out of the window of her room on the 9th floor. The girl fell on a passerby named George Gianinniboth suffered injuries incompatible with life.
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Goldie "Dove"
Goldie Oyud nicknamed "Dove" because she loved these birds and often fed them in the park at Pershing Square. On June 4, 1964, a girl was found dead in a hotel room. Cecil, she was raped, stabbed and strangled. The killer was never found, but next to the body Goldie there was a bag of pigeon food and a baseball cap with the emblem of her favorite team “Los Angeles Dodgers ".
The killers
Richard Ramirez, also known as the "Night Stalker", broke into houses, robbed, raped and killed in 1984-1985. At the same time, both old people and children became its victims. And all this time he was hiding in a hotel Cecil renting a top floor room for $ 14. The police still managed to catch killer and he spent the rest of his life behind bars. And in 1991, the international criminal Jack settled in the hotel for a while. Unterweger, just released after 15 years in prison. In Los Angeles, he again took up the old and killed three prostitutes. The maniac was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Eliza Lam
This is the most mysterious story that happened at the hotel. Eliza Lup, a student from Canada, settled in Cecil January 31, 2013. When the girl stopped calling her parents, they went to the police. In Los Angeles, the search began for the missing. It was established that she did not leave the hotel.
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Before her disappearance, her behavior was strange: there are recordings of elevator video cameras on which Eliza speaks with invisible interlocutors, hides and plays with someone who cannot be seen.
After a while, the girl's corpse was found in a water tank on the roof. The hotel guests began to complain about the color and smell of the water, so the plumbers examined the reservoir in which Eliza's body was found.
