In mid-2010, Lam started a blog named Ether Fields on Blogspot. Over the next two years, she posted pictures of models in stylish clothing and accounts of her life - specifically her struggle with Bipolar disorder and depression. (He takes Wellbutrin, Lamictal, Seroquel and Effexor to help with his bipolar).
In a blog post in January 2012, Lam lamented that a "relapse" at the beginning of the current school term forced him to drop many classes, leaving him feeling "out of direction and lost." Title of his post, always haunted by the idea that you are wasting your life "after a quote from novelist Chuck Palahnuik.
She used that quote as an ‘epigraph’ for his blog. Lam worries that his transcript will look suspicious of many setbacks and will result in him not being able to continue his education and attend high school.
More than two years after Lam started blogging, he announced that he would be leaving his blog for another one he started on Tumblr, "Nouvelle-Nouveau".
Its content mostly consists of found fashion photos and quotes and some posts in Lam’s own words.
The same Palahniuk quote is used as an epigraph. The 21-year-old college student in Canada was last seen at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles on January 31, 2013. He stayed at the hotel as part of a far-flung vacation and promised his parents that he will call every night.
The parents never heard from Elisa and worried, immediately contacted the authorities. Police soon released surveillance footage obtained from cameras at the Cecil Hotel on their website.
The hotel video shows Elisa Lam in one of its elevators on the date of her disappearance who acted strangely. In the pixelated footage, Lam can be seen entering the elevator and pushing all the floor buttons. He stepped out and elevator, poking his head out towards the corridors of the hotel in between. He had been with me outside the elevator several times before finally leaving the elevator. The last minutes of the video show Lam standing on the left side of the door, moving his hands in random gestures. It is almost as if he is hiding from someone and then trying to hurt someone. Other footage showed that no one else was there.
The public reaction to the inexplicable video has become full news around the world. It almost immediately spread to China, where Lam's family came from. The four-minute video of Lam's bizarre elevator episode garnered tens of millions of views. Cecil hotel guests complained about the taste of the bird water and the yellow to black water and 2 weeks after Eliza's disappearance, maintenance worker Santiago Lopez was asked to check the hotel's water tank.
What he found out was really surprising.
Elisa Lam's naked body.
The tank in which Lam's body was found should be completely drained and then cut from the side to remove his five-foot-four frame in accordance with a statement by the Los Angeles Fire Department chief.
No one knows how he got in there. How his clothes were removed. Or even how he was able to close the lid of the tank.
The autopsy report did not appear until 4 months later. When the report came out toxic, there was no drug or alcohol in his system. Just a cocktail of medicine which is probably his bipolar medicine.
I personally think his weird actions in the elevator are a result of his bipolar drug because it can cause people to go crazy bipolar and based on reports when he took his medicine, I don’t think he did it well received.
The autopsy did not show any foul play from the evidence processed. However, the coroner's office said they were unable to perform the full examination because they could not diagnose the blood from Lam's decomposing body.
Eliza lam's parents tried to sue the Cecil hotel for their failed duty to "investigate and look for hazards in the hotel that showed unreasonable risk to [Lam] and other hotel guests." The hotel thought it was against the law.
However, I must mention how difficult it is to get to this tank: Lopez said he took the elevator to the 15th floor of the hotel before walking up the stairs to the roof. Then, he had to turn off the rooftop alarm first and climb to the platform where the hotel’s four water tanks are located. Finally, he had to climb another ladder to get to the top of the main tank.
Once you get to the tank, you need to unlatch it and the miniature door to enter is made of some serious heavy steel. Apparently, Eliza could not have opened it. The biggest part is, you can’t get up to the rooftop without triggering alarms. So, how did the woman get up there without triggering alarms?
Now, because of all this, I know this is not officially a ‘crime’. Despite this, it was still scary and I wanted to know what had happened.
I hate unresolved deaths.
I was very confused as to how he was able to open the tank and not trigger alarms. Plus, I did some extra research on the Cecil hotel and it has a long history of murder. Maybe someone helped him. Honesty, I really do not know.
Let me know what your theory is.